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Joy Loverde

Path Carver.
Keynote Speaker.
Best-selling Author.

Solo Aging ♦ Caregiving ♦ Aging Parents

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Hiring In-Home Helpers for Your Aging Parent? Do These Four Things

Home care is now needed and you have decided to contact a local in-home agency rather than hire someone yourself. Grocery shopping, cooking, bathing, and laundry has become too much to handle. Hiring a professional caregiver to come into the home means that you are going to be dealing with many people coming and going …

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Got Aging Parents? Helping Them May Include Selling Their House

Let’s say Mom and Dad have decided to move into a retirement community or move closer to you, and now they want you to handle the process of selling their home. Where do you start? Worse yet, what if you don’t live anywhere near your parents? How do you accomplish this important task from long …

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Attention Family Caregivers. How to help aging parents who refuse to move. Part 1

I recently wrote a 23-part blog series about moving my Mom and her husband, Bill long distance from Florida to Chicago. It was quite an ordeal in spite of the fact that they were motivated to move (at least Mom was). I plan to post that series once this one has ended. Now I am …

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Attention Family Caregivers. Do Your Aging Parents Refuse to Move? Read this series.

Helping aging parents and others who are willing to relocate out of the family home and into an elder-friendly environment is one thing. Expect an altogether different experience when your elders dig in their heels and refuse to move under any circumstance. When home-safety is seriously compromised, or medical matters are too much to handle, …

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