Posts Tagged ‘Alcolhol abuse in the elderly’
Best Tool to Give the Family Holiday Hope
How do you give the family Holiday HopwHow do you as a geriatric care manager change the script for these aging dysfunctional families – family caregivers and older members who are supposed to care for but can’t.
How do you give the family Holiday Hope? During Christmas and Hannaka family caregivers, especially in the dysfunctional family can be drinking or numbing themselves from the pain of caregiving. They will ruin the holiday celebration in one way or
another.
Best Tool for Dysfunctional Family on Holidays- Hope
How do you as a geriatric care manager change the script for these aging dysfunctional families – family caregivers and older members who are supposed to care for but can’t. How does a professional GCM make the whole family transform to change?
It’s actually simple –but loaded with skill- give them hope
Read MoreAnxiety, Depression and Medication Abuse in Elders- How Do You Assess?
Psychosocial and functional assessment of elders can reveal the presence of anxiety, depression and substance abuse. All of these which create giant, holes in an older person’s safety net. Substance…
Read MoreElderly Parents and Alcohol- Why Worry?
According to Paula’s Span ‘s New York Times blog New Old Age, about assisted living 70% of all older people in assisted living drink alcohol. Does that surprise you? Over…
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