Monitoring

• Checklist - 10 Gadgets That Could Help Keep Your Parents Living at Home

  10 innovative gadgets that can make it easier for your aging parents to remain independent in their home.

• Buying Guide - A Buyer's Guide to Personal Emergency Response Systems

  Guide to personal emergency response systems, or PERS. Home devices that connect your parent to a 24-hour call center with the push of a button.

• Article - 3 Acute Diabetes Complications You Can Help Your Parent Avoid

  Find out how to help your parent with type 2 diabetes avoid short-term complications such as low or high blood sugar (hypo- or hyperglycemia).

• Article - When Your Parent Moves In: How to Get Your House Ready

  A list of steps to take in advance of moving your parents into your home.

• Article - Monitoring Blood Glucose: What You Should Know to Help a Parent with Diabetes

  Monitoring the blood glucose of a parent with diabetes helps identify which treatments work best. Here are the basics of blood glucose monitoring.

• Interview - Talking With Julie Winokur

  Julie Winokur, whose film series The Sandwich Generation documents her family's care-giving experience, reflects on caring for parents at home.

Blog Posts

• Blog Post - Don't Wait for a Doctor's Visit to Test for High Blood Pressure

  For those with high blood pressure, home monitoring is recommended by the American Heart Association and other major organizations.

• Blog Post - New Fall Prevention Tools Keep Seniors Steady

  Falls are a leading cause of injury and death among seniors. New fall prevention technology can help prevent falls among seniors.

• Blog Post - Got a Parent With Diabetes? Chew on This

  A new chewing gum, infused with the widely-prescribed diabetes drug metformin, is in development.

• Blog Post - Big Brother is Watching....Mom and Dad

  A new breed of high-tech retirement community is using technology to monitor seniors with dementia and other conditions, offering new freedoms while raising privacy concerns.

• Blog Post - Robots and Other High-Tech Solutions Help Seniors Stay at Home

  New high-tech monitoring systems allow seniors to age in place with greater safety and freedom, but also raise privacy concerns.

• Blog Post - Old Meets New: High-Tech Toys Help Seniors Deal With Diabetes

  A handy list of high-tech gadgets that can help take the hassle out of dealing with diabetes for seniors and their caregivers.

• Blog Post - My mother's caregiver is too controlling and won't take direction from us.

  My mother has Alzheimer's and has had a live-in caregiver...

• Blog Post - When You Can't Check in With Your Parents, Cops (Often) Can

  Numerous services will check in on your parent when you can't. Find them by searching "senior check-in" and your parents' town.

• Blog Post - My mother gave power of attorney to her new husband, who is putting her life in danger. How can we get it away from him?

  My mother's new husband has power of attorney for her, but I feel he puts her life in danger. How can we get her to reappoint power of attorney?

• Blog Post - Should You Put Type 2 Diabetes to the Test?

  Researchers are asking whether daily self-monitoring is worth the effort and expense.

• Blog Post - A Stay-at-Home "Nursing Home"

  The I-House, a stay-at-home nursing home, is a "smart house" for seniors, the latest entry in a trend toward high-tech aging in place.

• Blog Post - Seniors Hit Hard By Overdraft Charges

  High banking fees are hitting senior citizens hard, but seniors can protect themselves by monitoring their account online.

• Blog Post - Should Cancer Patients Take a Chemo Vacation?

  Most news headlines about cancer treatment trumpet...

• Blog Post - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People With Diabetes

  Find advice from self-help writer Stephen R. Covey in a guide for people with type 2 diabetes and their caregivers called The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People with Diabetes.

• Blog Post - Know Thy Father: A Guide to Dad's Day

  Knowing your dad well is a good guide to celebrating Father's Day.

Questions & Answers

• Question - How do I monitor a caretaker's effectiveness?

  Formal legal arrangements such as powers of attorney or conservatorships may help ensure the best care for an aging relative. If not, the local Adult Protective Services agency may be able to help.

• Question - hes palpitation have suddenly become allot more frequent.

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• Question - If you miss a chemotherapy apointment would a doctor give...

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• Question - Will Medicaid pay for my dad's ventilator and skilled nursing care in my home?

  Medicaid might not cover enough nursing services to allow a patient on a ventilator to receive care at home.

• Question - Is hospitalization or a clinic better for lymphedema treatment?

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• Question - What steps are required to get a conservatorship?

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• Question - What can be done to help my mother's fatigue, caused by her heart failure meds?

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• Question - How can I help my mom deal with high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol?

  Along with high blood sugar, someone with diabetes might also have high blood pressure and cholesterol. But she can reduce all three the same way.

• Question - How long will chemoembolization last?

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• Question - What is platumn chemo?

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• Question - Should my active parent check his blood sugar during exercise?

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• Question - How can I convince my stubborn father to see a doctor about his diabetes?

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• Question - How can we convince my father, who has cancer and can not live alone but insists, to move in with us?

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• Question - How do we deal with my mother, who requires oxygen 24/7, while enduring air travel?

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• Question - How can I help my mother handle low blood sugar incidents?

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• Question - Should we see an ear, nose and throat specialist for my mother's issues with taste?

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• Question - What is the best way to help my mom with constipation?

  Does your parent need help with constipation? Fluids, diet, and activity are important to help with constipation; medications are another factor.

• Question - My father is withdrawing money from his accounts but can't remember where he's spending the money. What can I do?

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• Question - Can we travel with parents with dementia?

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• Question - What if I'm worried about my dad's Alzheimer's but he and my mom aren't?

  This question has been answered by a Caring.com Expert and a Community Member

• Question - Does Medicare cover adult day care for Alzheimer’s...

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• Question - Can a durable power of attorney be made irrevocable?

  Powers of attorney may be something that's even better than irrevocable: They're flexible.

• Question - What precautions should my dad, who has type 2 diabetes, take when traveling?

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• Question - Can you advise me about how to talk to my grandmother's doctor?

  I need help talking to my grandmother's physician.

• Question - How can I help my father deal with the "dawn phenomenon," or high blood sugar on awakening?

  Dawn phenomenon, having high blood sugar in the morning, is a common problem for diabetics. Get advice on dawn phenomenon treatment strategies.

• Question - Could my father's loud snoring be caused by a medical problem?

  Loud snoring may indicate a medical problem like sleep apnea. Loud snoring could also be caused by obesity, alcohol, smoking, and medications.

• Question - Should my dad, who’s scheduled to have an operation unrelated to his diabetes, keep up his normal diabetes routine?

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Tips & Reflections

• Tip - Monitor Your Parents' Bank Account Online

  Seniors don't always know when they're being scammed...

• Tip - Rest Easier With a Medical Emergency Alert System

  If your parent lives alone, an emergency alert system...

• Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known: Julie Winokur

  Filmmaker Julie Winokur, who chronicled care giving for her father in The Sandwich Generation, talks about being a working mother and caregiver.

• Tip - Know When You're Needed at Night

  If your parent tends to need your help in the middle...

• Tip - parent with dementia

  After caring for two elderly parents for several...