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Senior Care Corner® Podcast
by Kathy & Barry of Senior Care Corner
The Senior Care Corner Show with hosts Kathy and Barry from SeniorCareCorner.com, where family members and other caregivers of senior adults find information, tools, and solutions to enhance the lives of senior loved ones.
Episodes
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Honoring Veterans With Access to Benefits They Have Earned
We are reminded on Veterans Day to honor those who served us by serving. One way we can honor our senior loved ones is by helping them ensure they are utilizing all of the benefits to which their service entitled
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Insights on Service Dogs for Seniors on The Senior Care Corner® Podcast
Service dogs offer benefits to many aging in place seniors and are growing in popularity. We arranged a conversation with an expert from the American Kennel Club to answer your questions.
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Tech for Senior Independence — Conversation with MobileHelp® on Senior Care Corner® Podcast
We have been advocates for technology solutions that support the ability of seniors to successfully age in place since we started Senior Care Corner®. That includes technology that enables family caregivers to provide the level of care they want while still having time to meet their own needs. We...
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Medication Management Conversation with Simple MedsSM on the Senior Care Corner® Podcast
Medications taken incorrectly can reduce their effectiveness or, worse, can be dangerous and even deadly, especially seniors taking multiple medications daily. In this podcast, we discussion medication safety with Simple Meds.
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House Sharing – Social and Financial Solution for Many Seniors on the Senior Care Corner® Podcast
Older adults who may be living alone as a result of being newly single when the kids leave the nest or losing a partner or those who never married or are recently divorced have realized that aging in place can be lonely without someone else around.
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Elder Orphans — Raising Family Caregiver Awareness on the Senior Care Corner® Podcast
Millions of older adults receive care and support from loved ones. For many, it’s those family caregivers who enable them to age in place successfully. But more than 20% of current seniors — and even higher percentages of future seniors — don’t have sp...
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Transforming Family Caregiving — Conversation with Seniorlink on the Senior Care Corner® Podcast
In this episode of the Senior Care Corner® podcast, we're pleased to explain two examples of the transformation of family caregiving. First, we discuss the RAISE Family Caregiving Act, which became law in January 2018.
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Conversation with Health Tech Innovator MOCACARE on the Senior Care Corner® Show
Technology with the potential to help our seniors live healthy, safe, and comfortable lives is something for which Senior Care Corner® is always on the lookout to keep family caregivers informed. MOCAheart really caught our eye at CES® because that definition fits it well. Many seniors — and…
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Tablet Tailored to Seniors’ Needs – Conversation with grandPad on the Senior Care Corner® Show
Technology that connects seniors to their families, friends, healthcare providers, and the world around them is increasingly important to successful aging in place. For many seniors, that technology will be the same smartphones, tablets and computers used by younger generations. Others, though,...
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Interview with an Audiologist for Better Hearing & Speech Month – Senior Care Corner Show
Isolation, depression and other issues are faced by seniors who live with uncorrected hearing loss. A third of seniors have a hearing impairment, according to the National Institutes of Health. Unfortunately, many go undiagnosed because the seniors either don’t realize they have a loss, don’t…
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Like Uber When You Need a Doctor – KallDoc on Senior Care Corner Show
Technology bringing the doctor to our smart devices, including our phones and tablets, for a virtual telemedicine visit is a frequent topic of discussion at Senior Care Corner®. Not only are doctors doing health checkups and emergency treatment via tele-medicine, more doctors are making house…
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The Snarf Scarf: Neat Eating for Style & Dignity – Senior Care Corner Show
Enabling senior loved ones to enjoy lives that are healthy, safe and comfortable is the mission of their family caregivers. Important to that is helping them live with self respect and dignity. Working with older adults for most of my career as a dietitian, I have worked closely with seniors who...
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Enabling Caregivers and Seniors Themselves “To Know Me” on the Senior Care Corner® Show
Long-established habits, routines, likes and dislikes are common in senior adults. Adherence to those can often make the difference between good and bad days, especially for those with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia. Knowing those would be key to getting the personalized, compassionate…
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Choosing the Right Nursing Home – Family Caregiver Advocate Interview on the Senior Care Corner® Show
Choosing the right nursing home to be the next home for a senior loved one is a stressful process for family caregivers. Not only is the whole concept -- that the senior's needs are greater than can be met at home -- often difficult for everyone to accept, but how does one decide which senior...
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Talking Senior Hunger with the National Council on Aging on the Senior Care Corner Show
4.8 million senior adults in the US face food insecurity. Is it possible your senior loved ones are included in that number without you realizing it? How would you know? If they are, what could you do to help them? Senior hunger is an issue of emphasis for us at Senior Care Corner® because it...
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Seniors & Dogs: Conversation with a Pet Expert on the Senior Care Corner Show
Seniors and dogs can be a great combination, especially for those seniors aging in place on their own. The companionship of a dog or other pet has been shown to provide real health benefits to seniors and help them avoid a feeling of isolation. It's important, though, for thought to go into...
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Holiday Family Meeting and Senior Gift Tips – Senior Care Corner Show
Holiday family gatherings, in addition to fun, socializing and maybe a bit of stress with loved ones who don’t often get together also provide an opportunity for family members to meet and discuss topics best addressed together. Planning for these meetings is one subject in the feature segment of...
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Commission on Long Term Care Report Insights – Senior Care Corner Show
12 million Americans need long term care services, a number certain to grow as the nation ages. Who will provide those services and where will we get the dollars to cover the costs? Good questions. In January 2013, Congress called for an effort to answer those questions by establishing the...
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You Can Be a Long Distance Family Caregiver – Senior Care Corner Show
Family caregiver of senior loved ones is a role that knows no bounds of gender, age or ability — requiring only that one care enough to take actions that make better the lives of aging family members. It isn’t even necessary to be in the senior’s home, city or state to provide valuable senior…
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Senior Nutrition Advice for Family Caregivers From Our Senior Care Dietitian
Nutrition is one of the keys to good health at all ages. We hear that all the time but not always clear signals about what proper nutrition entails. Eating right is especially important for seniors, whose changing health and needs make it particularly important to eat the right foods in the right...
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SeniorHomes: A Senior & Family Resource – Senior Care Corner Show
Which long term care facility is best for our senior loved ones? Finding the right one is a dilemma faced by many families and the number is only growing as the boomer generation ages. Yes, there is a lot of information out there on senior living faci...
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Tech Home Improvement for Aging in Place on the Senior Care Corner Show
WiFi connection to broadband internet can add a lot to the health, safety and comfort of seniors aging in place, but only if they have it in their homes. That's a role family members can fill for many seniors. Home Improvement Month is the feature topic in this episode of the Senior Care Corner...
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Aging in Place Tech Talk: MobileHelp on the Senior Care Corner Show
Technology is a big part of the answer to the aging in place wish of many of our senior loved ones -- and us, not only as family caregivers but as future seniors ourselves. We're looking to the tech industry for solutions that allow living in the home of our choice safely, comfortably and in good...
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End of Life Decisions: Has Your Senior Loved One Made Them? Have You?
End of life healthcare care is something about which most adults have heard and even considered. Most have not taken past the "thinking about it" stage, however. Enter National Healthcare Decisions Day, an effort to inspire us to make our decisions and healthcare providers to honor them.
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Drug Take Back Day: Safe Disposal of Unneeded and Expired Medications
Flush them, mix them with coffee grounds, just throw them out – - what ARE we supposed to do with medications that are expired or we just don’t need any more? Disposing of old prescription drugs improperly can be, as we have learned of late, hazardous to the environment. Keeping drugs that are no...
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Our 50th Senior Care Corner Show! Questions from Family Caregivers
50 episodes of the Senior Care Corner Show . . . and counting! We are pleased to reach this milestone, reflecting almost two years of our biweekly show, and proud that our listenership continues to grow and benefit from our work. We wanted to do something special for our feature segment of this...
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DNR / Advance Directives in Senior Living Facilities: Lessons from the News
Lifesaving and other medical care policies of senior living facilities should be determined before senior loved ones move into the facilities, as we are reminded by a recent news story that has created much discussion and controversy. News reports suggest that a California woman who laid dying...
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Seniors’ Financial Identity Under Attack - Senior Care Corner Show Discussion
Seniors’ finances ARE under attack from those who want to take their money or make money stealing their identities to impersonate them. Our latest episode of the Senior Care Corner® Show addresses how we can help our seniors protect what they have from ID theft. Of course, everyone’s finances…
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Mobile Health: Are We Ready For It? Senior Care Corner Show Discussion
Mobile health is acclaimed by many as what will save the US healthcare system by crushing the cost of providing care – - if anything can, that is. Will we be ready for mobile and it’s impact on the care we receive when it gets here? Even more crucial for us, will our senior loved ones be ready?...
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The Library: Not Just for Children or Checking Out Print Books
Has it been a while since you checked out (pun intended) your local public library? Maybe it’s time! The library and library staff are underutilized resources we can use to help our senior loved ones, especially those aging in place, live healthier and more enjoyable lives. We discuss how to make...
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On the Threshold of Magic: 2013 CES Highlights for Seniors & Caregivers
The world’s largest annual innovation event, otherwise known as the International CES, lived up to its billing for 2013. Full of oohs, ahhs, gadgets — oh, and some 150,000 people — the 2013 CES was a combination of fantastic technology reality for today with hints of even more great things...
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Family Caregivers Planning the Care Needed for…the Caregivers
Family caregivers do a fantastic job giving of themselves to care for others. In doing so, however, they often neglect to care for themselves. As we often discuss, the selfless act of putting their own needs last or even leaving them unaddressed hurts eve
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Family Caregiver Technology Planning for Aging in Place Loved Ones
Technology promises safer, healthier and more comfortable lives for our senior loved ones - a promise that is growing rapidly as more tech companies discover the promise aging customers have to offer them and learn how to develop products with seniors in
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2013 CES Preview: High Tech Hopes for Seniors & Family Caregivers
The 2013 International CES, the huge trade show put on by the Consumer Electronics Association, offers the most promise ever from the tech industry for seniors and their family caregivers. We are looking forward to bringing back more and better news than
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Family Caregivers: Close VA Benefits Info Gap for Senior Veterans
Only a quarter of seniors who are US military Veterans have enrolled to receive VA healthcare benefits and only a tenth of the rest feel they know what's available to them through those benefits. Are some missing out? We can't know unless they know enough
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Conversation with an Elder Law Attorney – Insights for Family Caregivers
Sometimes we're frustrated by the legalese that governs so much of our lives but it's fact. Through the end of our lives, and even beyond, there are legal processes, decisions and documents that we have to get right. You'd think that by our senior years o
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Essential Family Caregiving Discussion This Holiday Season
Seniors, especially those with health, physical or memory issues, should sit down with the other adults in their families to openly discuss their needs and the roles of the rest of the family in assuring those needs are met. Unfortunately, those meetings
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Holiday Technology Gift Ideas for Senior Loved Ones
Technology - especially consumer electronics - is becoming increasingly more friendly to seniors and seems destined to be every bit as essential to their daily life as it is for many of the rest of us. In some ways it may be even more so, as it enables th
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Peek at AARP Life@50+ with Focus on Health Innovation
Two days plus packed with meeting people, learning about current resources for seniors & caregivers and gaining insight into some health innovations - plus LOTS of walking...that pretty much summarizes the working part of our trip to AARP's Life@50+ Natio
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Resource for Family Caregivers: Our Conversation with eCaring
Digital technology and the internet are leading to a number of innovative resources to help family caregivers, including those doing so from a distance, assure that senior loved ones are safe, healthy and comfortable while aging in place alone. Senior Car
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Portrait of the Senior Population to Help Us Know OUR Loved Ones
Helping family caregivers see themselves and understand their own needs, as we do in "You Might Be a Family Caregiver", is a frequent topic of Senior Care Corner posts and podcasts. Gaining insight into the lives and needs of our senior loved ones is our
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You Might Be a Family Caregiver… (with Thanks to Jeff Foxworthy)
Our posts and podcasts here at Senior Care Corner often address the importance that family caregivers look out for their own needs in order to be at their best when providing care to their senior loved ones. That is especially important for those who are,
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Family Caregivers Are Not Alone – But Are Online
Family caregivers of senior adults can become so focused on providing care they can feel they're alone on an island. They may be focused but are certainly not alone, as more than 50 million adults in the US care for adult family members. Â 7 million of th
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Successful Aging in Place and Technology to Make it Reality
Aging in place is a major topic for us at Senior Care Corner as is it for many seniors and boomers who are looking ahead to their senior years. With a majority of those surveyed expressing a preference to live in their own homes and many more for whom it
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Protecting Seniors From Heat Stroke in Extreme Summer Heat
Extreme summer heat takes more US lives than any other weather-related disaster, with seniors more likely to be impacted than those who are younger. Seniors' bodies often don't adjust to severe temperature changes as well as others. Older adults are also
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Favorable Technology Trends for Seniors and Their Family Caregivers
Milestone achieved - - more than half of US seniors are now using the internet. Still many left to get on the web, and especially social networks, but the rapid growth of late is reason for optimism. It is also something we see as a very favorable trend f
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Technology to Protect Seniors & Give Peace of Mind to Family Caregivers
Family caregivers of seniors may live with them, across town or even across the nation. Wherever we live, we aren't always with our senior loved ones to know if they are doing well, need our help or even require emergency assistance. We want to know 24/7
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4 Tips to Keep Seniors Surfing Safely Online
We hear from many seniors and their family members that they don't know what they would do without the internet and social networks because the web has added so much to their lives. At the same time, there are many older adults shying away out of concern
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Celebrate Older Americans Month with Senior Care Corner
Celebrating Older Americans Month each May is one of the ways we can acknowledge and show our appreciation for the many contributions of older adults to our nation and communities. Building a greater understanding of seniors and their needs is one of the
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Seniors’ Adoption of Consumer Electronics – - and Family Members’ Role
While we hear and read much about seniors' lack of interest in new technology, we also see a lot of evidence to the contrary. Feedback from our readers and listeners, as well as what we observe ourselves, gives us confidence that any hesitation seniors ha
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The Senior Care Corner Show with hosts Kathy and Barry from SeniorCareCorner.com, where family members and other caregivers of senior adults find information, tools, and solutions to enhance the lives of senior loved ones.
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