Senior Sidekicks

12/22/2025

A useful overview of the immigrant caregiving experience.

How to balance cultural traditions while allowing for generational differences

12/19/2025

The types of home care can be confusing. This article offers a good overview.

While home health care and home care may sound similar, there are several key distinctions. Learn about the differences between doctor-ordered home health care and supportive, nonmedical home care, including what they cover and how to pay.

12/17/2025

While having a caregiving discussion with older family members at holiday festivities is not a good idea, winter brings other opportunities. With the cold comes shoveling the snow, and trying to decorate for the holidays. All good starts to a discussion.

https://seniorsidekicks.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/winterizing-your-senior/

12/15/2025

The perfect story for showing the importance of checking up on friends and neighbors, particularly in this winter weather.

Charlie Hicks ate his lunch and dinner at the Shrimp Basket in Pensacola, Florida, every day for 10 years. When he suddenly stopped showing up, the chef went looking for him, and ultimately saved his life.

12/12/2025

This is a powerful indictment of the long-term lack of governmental concern for an aging population and their caregivers.

I've seen what happens when the weight of caring for a loved one becomes too great

12/10/2025

Medicare is endeavoring to negotiate lower drug prices, but the drug companies are trying to stall. Let your lawmakers kow to support their tax payers, and not the drug companies.

https://action.aarp.org/moc-oppose-epic-act-advocate?cmp=SNO-TW-ADV&socialid=18973329295

12/08/2025

Transportation is another area that needs to be addressed as the population ages. Seniors and their families should discuss transportation preferences, and design an Advanced Driving Directive (ADD).

https://ihpi.umich.edu/national-poll-healthy-aging/national-findings/road-ahead-driving-behaviors-confidence-and-planning

12/05/2025

This YouTube channel is a good resource for caregivers.

Are you struggling to pull your family together to create a working support system for someone living with dementia? Do you find family members disagreeing o...

12/03/2025

If a family relationship was far from perfect for a caregiver there are some strategies that can be used to help the caregiver cope.

Here are tips on how family caregivers with complicated relationships with their loved ones can find ways to commit to caring without risking more hurt.

11/28/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from Senior Sidekicks!

11/26/2025

This interview offers many important insights into the challenges that caregiving millennials face.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Jennifer Levin, author of Generation Care, about the roughly 10 million millennials working as family caregivers, often before they've fully formed their own lives.

11/23/2025

During the holiday season, this is something that older adults, particularly caregivers, need to be aware of. If the family gatherings are going to include young grandchildren, or family that is often around younger children, it would be best to ask if anyone is showing symptoms of illness. Then decide whether or not to attend.

Learn how RSV spreads, how long you're contagious, early symptoms to look for, and the simple steps (including vaccination) that can help protect you and those you care about.