Informal caregivers are family, friends or volunteers who provide care for a loved one. Informal caregivers are rarely paid directly for their services. They may receive indirect payment through sharing a loved one’s income or assets. Although informal...
Walk into the average senior citizen’s home and you’ll likely find a pill box filled with multiple pills of varying sizes and colors. Seniors consume 40% of all prescription drugs manufactured in the United States, and they also purchase 35 % of the over the counter...
When we are young, falling is a fact of life, a normal rite of passage. It’s something that happens the moment we start toddling and continues through the new bike years of childhood. By the teenage years, our falls are pretty much limited to the “head over heals”...
Jewelry theft and financial abuse are most common problems Deputy District Attorney Greenwood, head of the elder abuse prosecution unit in San Diego County, has never been busier. He credits the testimony on March 2nd of 90 year old actor Mickey Rooney. “Within two...
