Month: February 2019

Elderly Parents Who Refuse Help and Siblings Who Refuse to Offer Any: What to Do?

Elderly Parents Who Refuse Help and Siblings Who Refuse to Offer Any: What to Do?

In this post, we’ll try to answer two questions: What to do when elderly parents refuse help? and, what to do when siblings don’t help with aging parents?  Yeah, I know, that’s a lot, right?  Then let’s get started with the first question, well, first… 

What’s Your Metabolic Type?

What’s Your Metabolic Type?

Warning: before I enlighten you regarding your metabolic type, this post will define a lot of terms related to metabolism…beginning with, well, metabolism, which is the chemical process by which your body converts what you eat and drink into energy.  Used in a sentence it 

Aging at Home: How You Can Help Seniors Keep Their Independence

Aging at Home: How You Can Help Seniors Keep Their Independence

From a very young age, usually around our “terrible twos,” we seek independence in our lives and that search seems to peak in our late teens.  Then, once we have attained independence, we are loath to relinquish it, especially as we reach our golden years.  

February is American Heart Month

February is American Heart Month

It’s right there in the middle of your chest and, at a minimum, you sense its presence everyday and can feel its activity at various pulse points around your body. However, many of us take it, and what it does, for granted until something goes