When a family caregiver moves in to help mom or dad with in-home care, there are sometimes instances where that caregiver stays in the home, even after the parents have passed away. Encouraging the family caregiver to move out without a lawsuit was the focus of a...
Unpaid in-home care tops all of healthcare expenses in U.S. A recent AARP study looked at how much time family caregivers spend helping an aging relative with in-home care and found the economic value of that care tops $600 billion dollars. The rate of those unbilled...
In a quest to learn why some people are blessed with extreme intelligence while others are cursed with amnesia or other neurological diseases, a local UCSD professor opened the Brain Observatory for public visits. The Brain Observatory, founded in 2005 by Dr. Jacopo...
Care management is a service that takes the burden off of families caring for elderly relatives or provides extra support for seniors who can’t or won’t rely on family for assistance. While caregivers provide help with activities of daily living, such as bathing,...
Do you remember when you first got your license to drive? It probably gave you an exhilarating sense of independence and freedom. That’s one reason that giving up a driver’s license as we age is so hard. Being an older driver alone is not a...
Space heaters cause about 1,700 fires a year nationwide. According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), they are the culprits in 81% of fatal house fires caused by heat. More than half of the fires caused by heating equipment between 2014 and 2018...
