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While quantity and quality of senior living options and related technologies continue to evolve, the senior care industry faces at least three major challenges; The median caregiver turnover rate across the industry was 66.7% in 2017, the highest rate since 2013. About 10,000 Baby Boomers turn 65 each day. The number of people aged 65 and over is projected to …
While presenting a Keynote for the Nebraska Healthcare Association Annual meeting, I guided the audience through a ‘one minute, relaxation- meditation’. I asked the group to begin taking a few deep breaths, to close their eyes and allow themselves to be fully relaxed and simply be present. Taking long slow, conscious deep breaths, I then asked the participants to place …
‘Being Mortal, Medicine and What Matters Most in the End’, by Dr. Atul Gawande is a must read for caregivers and families alike. Gawande begins with the assertion that ‘for a clinician, nothing is more threatening to who you think you are than a patient with a problem you cannot solve.’ He further shows us that for more than half a …
My Dad recently passed away one month shy of his 93rd birthday. Here’s one story that embodies his spirit and legacy, courage, perseverance and joy. ~~~ Dad could still muster the energy to walk to the end of the driveway and into the passenger seat of my convertible. Over the years I did my best to look out for him, to visit …
In my new memoir, Who Cares? The Give and Take of Family Caregiving, I detail many of the challenges and personal hardships I faced while caring for my siblings and elderly parents. I was often exhausted, stressed, even depressed, after what seemed like endless trips to the emergency room, doctor visits and hospital stays. Not to mention the negative impact …
I received no warning regarding the mental-emotional challenges of living in a world driven by technology. I never got this letter…and neither did you. January 1, 2000. Advisory and Health Warning for the use of Electronic Mail from the Department of Communications, Stress Management, and Sanity . “Attention, over the next several decades your primary method of communication will be electronic mail, aka …
