How to Pay for Home Care: 7 Options for Indiana Families
When you’re considering non-medical home care for yourself or a loved one, one of the first questions that often arises is: How will we pay for this? Whether you’re a first-time care seeker or…
Why Getting Help as a Caregiver Is So Hard (And What to Actually Do About It)
Someone will eventually tell you to take care of yourself. They mean well. They may even say it with the kindest face imaginable, usually right after asking how your mom is doing, whether your…
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…