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Detecting Mental Illness or Decline in Seniors – How to Tell, What to Do

You may have noticed something like this: your elderly mother, who would never be seen in public anything less than impeccably groomed, doesn’t bother to get her hair and nails done anymore. Maybe your loved one seems to forget things more than they used to, or maybe the once-careful driver now seems erratic and frankly …

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Seniors Can Be Malnourished Too – Here’s How to Avoid This

When you hear the word ‘malnutrition’ you tend to think about starving kids in sub-Saharan Africa or famine in a third-world nation. You don’t think about malnutrition in connection with your own loved one. It is difficult to envision an older adult from a prosperous background, a loving family being malnourished, much less someone from …

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Hiring a Senior Move Manager & Other Ways to Ease Moving to Assisted Living

You probably have mixed feelings about moving mom/dad into assisted living. While you know they will be happier, safer and less lonely, it is also difficult to accept that this once vital person, brimming with energy and verve, now seems to need help. You probably feel fiercely protective about them right now, much as they …

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