Brookdale Blogs

With no guide book on how best to manage your loved one’s care and finances, knowing what’s best isn’t always easy, so here are a few financial questions to consider as a caregiver.

Here are a few resolutions that will allow you to take just a little bit of time for yourself each day in the New Year.

As adult children, it’s natural to not always think about parents needing our care. After all, they’ve been a source of support for us for our entire lives, so it can be hard to imagine it any other way. But although your parents don’t yet need extra help, it could happen, and you likely will want to feel prepared if that moment comes.

Find out how we can maintain balance while being an advocate for our parents.

An old adage says, “You can’t take care of others if you can’t take care of yourself.” That was something my loved ones frequently reminded me about in 2012 when my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and I became her caregiver.

Being an at-home caregiver for an aging loved one creates special moments and opportunities to bond with them in new and profound ways. But caregiving is also a tremendous responsibility often accompanied by hard-to-process feelings like grief, resentment and guilt.

Caregivers often put others' needs ahead of their own. But caregiving can be challenging, which makes self-care as important now than ever. Here's how you can avoid burnout.

A technique known as prompting can help foster a more successful partnership with your loved one with dementia. It can also help you and your loved one communicate better and work together more smoothly.

If it’s been a while since you’ve seen a senior parent, it might surprise you to see changes in them that you haven’t noticed before. A scheduled meeting with a pre-approved agenda can help families gather their thoughts and concerns as well as offer solutions.

Now that your loved one has moved into a senior living community, how do you, as a wife, husband, son or daughter, get involved yourself?

Guest blogger Sherri Snelling, corporate gerontologist, discusses how to have family conversations about long-term care and end-of-life decisions.

Who knew that getting older might actually mean being pulled in more directions than ever before? You may be needed not only by your adult children, but also by grandchildren and maybe even aging parents and relatives.

Here are three basic, proactive actions you can take to help ensure that the care you give doesn’t wear you down.

Choosing the right type of long-term care is an important decision to make. But which care option is best? Assisted living or dementia care? Find out.

Sara Mitchell knew Brookdale was the place for her the moment she walked through the door. Though she's not related by blood, the residents in her community are like her second family.