by Dennis Beaver | healthcare, senior care
March 12, 2016 • By Dennis Beaver The day we discover that our parents are no longer able to care for themselves brings with it one of the greatest challenges in our lives as adult children. Now, we have become parents of our parents, at times needing to protect them... by Dennis Beaver | healthcare, medicine, senior care
December 12, 2015 • By Dennis Beaver It’s no secret that America is turning grey at an accelerated, expensive rate. “On a national level, caring for an aging population requires enormous financial and social resources,” observes Pamela D. Wilson, author of “The... by Dennis Beaver | healthcare, senior care
July 18, 2015 • By Dennis Beaver For readers of this column who are a bit cynical, in view of the enormous cost to society from an aging population growing more infirm by the day, beset with dementia and Alzheimer’s, many are asking: Why are more states considering... by Dennis Beaver | healthcare, senior care
July 11, 2015 • By Dennis Beaver An American lawyer was having lunch in the French city of Lyon with Father Louis Genton, a priest who cared for the aged. Staring deeply into the America’s eyes, Genton made a prediction which, decades later, would indeed come true:... by Dennis Beaver | healthcare, medicine, senior care
October 4, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver For readers whose parents, grandparents or other family members are over 65, the twin storms of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease could be headed in your direction. These joint nightmares steal the very essence of humanity from... by Dennis Beaver | senior care, trusts
February 02, 2013 • By Dennis Beaver We’ve all read or heard this touching first line in a poem about aging, written by poet Robert Browning in 1864: “Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be; the last of life for which the first was made.” “At that time those...