Pain hurts anyone, anytime. Pain hurts even more for older people whose resilience is lower and who are thinner, frailer, and more sensitive. It’s rather interesting to see how we deal with pain management today, compared to even two decades ago. ...

The vast majority of health care professionals are amazingly dedicated to helping others maintain or regain a healthy lifestyle. Regardless of whether it's a nurse or a physician or a personal support worker or any other front line care professional, there ...

There is an underlying general truism to the art and science of eldercare: watch for the stubborn streak and learn how to deal with it, or else…! In my personal journey of eldercare with my aging parents, it took me way ...

The World Health Organization defines palliative care as “...an approach which improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing life-threatening illness, through the prevention, assessment and treatment of pain and other physical, psychosocial and spiritual problems.” There are ...

A close friend not long ago told me about how his father-in-law had to be taken to the emergency room at their local hospital because of suddenly intensified irrational behaviour caused by some form of suspected cognitive impairment.  Once diagnosed ...

It’s interesting to note that the past couple of years there have been ever more frequent newspaper stories and television news coverage about ‘elder abuse’.  It’s akin to how child abuse became a mainstream issue about a dozen years ago: ...

A major challenge for all of us—caregivers to aging loved ones and all those who are into their advancing years—is to identify and address safety. Call it patient safety, or personal safety, or any kind of safety: it’s ultimately all ...