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When to Start Planning for Long Term Care
Financial & Legal

When to Start Planning for Long-Term Care

The right time to plan for long-term care is your 50s or early 60s, before a health event forces rushed decisions. Here's how to start.

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Managing the Frustration of Dementia Caregiving
Memory Care & Dementia

Managing the Frustration of Dementia Caregiving

Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia can be challenging and overwhelming on the best of days.

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How to Stay Confident as We Age
Family & Communication

How to Stay Confident as You Age: 7 Proven Strategies

Confidence in later life is built, not lost. Here are 7 practical ways to help your aging parent feel strong, valued, and self-assured.

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Healthy Benefits of Gratitude
Financial & Legal

Healthy Benefits of Gratitude for Caregivers

Gratitude lowers caregiver stress and improves sleep, mood, and heart health. Here's how to build a daily practice that actually sticks.

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Nutritional Needs of Seniors
Healthy Aging

Nutritional Needs of Seniors

As the temperatures change we find ourselves craving warm comfort foods - calorie-laden coffee drinks, pumpkin spice sweet treats, and cheesy casseroles.

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Making Plans for Your Aging Parents
Healthy Aging

Making Plans for Your Aging Parents

As children, your parents seem invincible.

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4 Ways Music Benefits Your Health
Lifestyle & Activities

How Does Music Benefit Senior Health? 4 Proven Ways

Music boosts memory, mood, movement, and creativity in older adults - here's how to use it daily, plus what neuroscience and geriatricians recommend.

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Understanding Assisted Living Expenses
Assisted Living Basics

Understanding Assisted Living Expenses

Shopping for the right assisted livingcommunity for your parent or spouse can be a daunting task.

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What Makes Áegis Living Different?
Áegis Living Stories

What Makes Áegis Living Different?

CEO and founder, Dwayne Clark, created Áegis Living with the determination of creating an alternative to the sad “old folks’ home.”

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What is a POLST Form?
Financial & Legal

What Is a POLST Form? End-of-Life Orders Explained

A POLST form converts a seriously ill patient's end-of-life wishes into binding medical orders. Here's how it works and who needs one.

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From Transitional Care to Memory Care
Memory Care & Dementia

From Transitional Care to Memory Care

If your parent is showing mild or early signs of dementia, do they need to move into memory care?

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Smooth Transition to Assisted Living
Assisted Living Basics

Smooth Transition to Assisted Living

Change for anyone can be difficult.

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Meet Your Assisted Living Staff
Assisted Living Basics

Meet Your Assisted Living Staff

Your loved one has moved to Áegis Living.

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Gifts for Seniors Using Senses
Family & Communication

Gifts for Seniors Using Senses

When looking for a gift for your parent or older spouse, consider their five senses as inspiration - sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound.

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Meaningful Family Visits in Assisted Living
Family & Communication

Meaningful Family Visits in Assisted Living

You have worked very hard as the primary caregiver for your parent or spouse.

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What to Expect Moving to Áegis Living
Family & Communication

What to Expect Moving to Áegis Living

Your longtime home may have been sold.

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11 Common Aging Health Issues
Healthy Aging

11 Common Aging Health Issues

As we age, we notice more outward signs of the passing years such as deepening wrinkles, pronounced laugh lines, grey hair, or we pick up our reading glasses more frequently.

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Why Do We Need a Power of Attorney?
Financial & Legal

Why Your Parent Needs a Power of Attorney Now

A power of attorney protects your parent's finances and healthcare choices if they can't decide for themselves. Here's why it matters and how to set one up.

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Value of Intergenerational Relationships
Financial & Legal

Value of Intergenerational Relationships

Did you know September is Intergeneration Month, a time to intentionally connect generations to communicate age-related gratitude and needs?

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Who Lives in Assisted Living?
Assisted Living Basics

Who Lives in Assisted Living?

Perhaps you never thought that one day your mom or dad may be unable to care for themselves.

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Who Will Take Care of Mom?
Family & Communication

Who Will Take Care of Mom?

When you ask, “Who will care for my mom or dad?”

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Managing Medication for your Parents
Family & Communication

Managing Medication for your Parents

As your parent gets older, their medication list can get longer and more complicated.

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Smoky Air Quality and Seniors
Health Conditions

Smoky Air Quality and Seniors

As another day of eerie smoke from wild fires covers much of the West Coast, we are closing our windows, staying inside, not running the vacuum, blowing our noses, and adding drops to our burning eyes.

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What to expect of dining in assisted living
Assisted Living Basics

What to expect of dining in assisted living

One of the questions that are commonly asked during a tour with families is: What does the food taste like here?

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