Almost everything written about older adults and bathing is written from the wrong side of the problem. Search it and you get pages about how to get someone to shower. How to handle refusal. How to overcome resistance. All of it framed as a compliance problem, with the older adult cast as the obstacle. Try…
Your mother stopped making the soup she used to make every fall. When you asked about it she said she just did not feel like it this year. The real answer, which took another eight months to surface, was that she could no longer open the jars. Not the tight ones. Any of them. And…
You call most days. You visit when you can. You got her signed up for the Tuesday lunch at the community center and she went twice and then stopped going. And she still seems lonely. This is one of the most frustrating things families run into, because it looks like a problem that should respond…
