Dolly Parton, Carl Dean and the Side of Caregiving We Don’t Talk About Enough
Dolly Parton spent a lifetime caring for the people she loved while continuing to show up for her music, her work, and the people who counted on her. But near the end of her life, she shared…
Senior Home Safety Modifications: An Aging-in-Place Checklist
There is a list somewhere on your phone or your browser history — grab bars, ramp, wider doorways, lever handles, pull-out shelves. Somewhere on that list is the modification that actually matters…
The 10 percent Problem: Why Most American Homes Aren’t Ready for an Aging Parent
The bathroom in her mother's house has one towel bar. It runs along the wall beside the tub — chrome, decorative, installed sometime in the 1980s — and it is not a grab bar. It was never meant to…
Remote Patient Monitoring: The Home Care Technology That’s Quietly Changing Everything
There's a particular kind of math you do without meaning to. The last time you talked to your parent. Whether anything in their voice was off. Whether the two days since then mean nothing, or mean…
The 43-Day Telehealth Crisis: What Happened, Who Was Hurt, and What It Means for Your Care Plan
Martha Swick used the phrase "taking a step back." Her husband Bill, 53, has corticobasal degeneration — a rare brain disease that has taken his ability to feed himself, dress himself, and travel to…