Moving your elderly relative – or making the decision yourself, if you are the elderly person – to a nursing home can be a really difficult and distressing decision to make.
How to Recognise the Signs Its Time for a Nursing Home
A Guide to Caring for Elderly Parents
Caring for elderly parents is something that many people take on as their parents’ grow older. Our parents give us so much while we’re growing up, and there comes a time when that ‘debt’ must be repaid. Ensuring your parents have access to suitable care is a priority for many people, but it can be difficult to know where and when to start.
Choosing the next step for elderly relatives’ care
Whether we like to admit it or not, it’s likely that every one of us will find ourselves making difficult choices about assistance for older relatives at some point in our life. Whether the reasons for your concern are surrounding their mental or physical health, or perhaps both, if it seems like they need more […]
Guest Post: Set an Example – Introduce Your Child to the World of Elderly Care
Guest Post by Gabriella Diesendorf. Gabriella is a freelance writer from Australia and a devoted mother. She loves badgering about beauty, green lifestyle choices and parenting techniques, and if you mention attachment parenting or natural makeup she will bore you to death. The bond between grandparents and their grandchildren bears a great significance for children’s development. Not only can a strong […]