by Doug Jones | May 8, 2021 | caring for elderly parent
Just For Us Arkansas Folks! We live and work in Arkansas. AND we know many of you personally. We thought that it was about time that we do a weekly newsletter just for Arkansas folks. Many who are already receiving this newsletter are our friends and our... 
by Doug Jones | Apr 23, 2021 | caring for elderly parent
Trends We Have Noticed Sunrise, sunset and lunar cycles. Without some divine intervention, some things will never change. But as we know, given time and circumstance, most things in life will change. Trends, it would seem, change like the tides. One big... 
by Doug Jones | Apr 9, 2021 | caring for elderly parent, pre-planning
Helping is often a matter of degree. We’ve seen cases where the parent and child may have been estranged for years. Then the parent starts to decline physically or cognitively and has no one to help. In some of these situations, the adult child continues to have no... 
by Doug Jones | Apr 1, 2021 | caring for elderly parent
Planning for Your Second Half. Today we are going to start with a small literary lesson. If you would, join me in learning more about the word advocate. As a noun, an advocate is a person who represents another person’s interests, like a lawyer does. In fact, the word... 
by Doug Jones | Mar 11, 2021 | caring for elderly parent, mental health
Helping when they refuse help What do you do to help an aging parent when they refuse help? We see this quite often and you may be dealing with us now. You may be in a situation where your parent clearly needs help but whenever you attempt to provide some assistance... 
by Doug Jones | Mar 4, 2021 | caring for elderly parent
It’s tough doing it all by yourself at home! Last week I had a brief conversation with one of my Senior friends. My friend was making the choice to move to an Assisted Living Facility. We are seeing ever increasing numbers of Seniors opt to live in Assisted...