Dementia, falls, pressure injuries, medication and the other problems that decide how well an older adult is cared for.
Conditions & issues
If your parent is in their eighties, frail, and living with diabetes, the goal you were taught to chase may now be the wrong one. For a healthy fifty-year-old, tight blood sugar control prevents eye, kidney and nerve dam...
Jul 19, 2026 · 13 min read
Conditions & issues
You have days, sometimes hours, to pick a rehabilitation setting for a parent who just had a stroke. The hospital wants the bed back. A discharge planner hands you a name. You sign something. That sequence decides how mu...
Jul 19, 2026 · 14 min read
Conditions & issues
If your mother or father is suddenly confused, agitated, or not making sense, and this is new, treat it as a medical event, not a stage of dementia. In frail older adults a urinary tract infection often shows up as a cha...
Jul 17, 2026 · 13 min read
Conditions & issues
Difficulty swallowing has a mechanical consequence that families rarely see coming: it lets food, drink, saliva or reflux into the airway. That is aspiration, and the pneumonia it causes is one of the top reasons nursing...
Jul 13, 2026 · 14 min read