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6 Role Transitions Along the Caregiver’s Journey
Understanding the role transitions along the caregiver’s journey will help you to gain clarity with the common struggles and what you can do about them. Knowing that you’re not alone and having tools to manage challenges that may arise helps will help you along the…
How to Build a Therapy Practice Devoted to Therapy with Older Adults
Imagine sitting across from an 82-year-old woman who has survived the death of her husband, two of her children, and now — a diagnosis that threatens to reshape everything she thought her final years would look like. She has never spoken to a therapist before.…
Parkinsons & Intimacy: 5 Ways to Cultivate Intimacy When Living with Parkinson’s Disease
For many people living with Parkinson’s Disease, sexual functioning can change, but intimacy doesn’t have to. I was working with a 70-something husband and wife a few months ago. The wife was living Parkinson’s Disease and had extreme tremors in her arms and hands. Her…
Support Resources for Caregivers
If you’re caring for an older adult and you’ve had to change your routine in the last few weeks with senior centers, doctors’ offices, and adult day programs closing due to COVID-19, you might find yourself experiencing more caregiver stress and burnout. Last week,…
This Is What It Takes to Improve Mental Health Care for Older Adults
For more than 20 years as a Geropsychologist, I’ve received calls from people searching for a therapist for an older loved one — or a colleague looking for a referral. They weren’t asking for anything extraordinary. They wanted someone who understood depression in later life,…
