Parents Are Hard To Raise

  What do you do when “Plan A” backfires and you’re thousands of miles away? This week on Parents Are Hard To Raise… Diane gives her best advice to long distance caregivers. Plus… This is NOT what you want to see in Adult Daycare. Links  Take

  This week on Parents Are Hard To Raise… Diane confronts the question: Why Me! What to do when life becomes unfair. Plus… What’s behind the mysterious spike in Vasectomies in the month of March, every year in America? Links  Take Diane with you and listen

  It’s happening the world over… generations a world apart are coming together, living together and bonding together. Could this be a solution to the world’s growing eldercare crisis?  This week on Parents Are Hard To Raise, Diane shares her thoughts on Intergenerational Living. Links  Take

  This week… A frustrated listener’s plea for help with a control-freak father who is doing whatever he can to undermine the care of his spouse… And, Diane’s surprisingly counterintuitive advice. Plus… A Florida senior uncovers a unique strategy for beating long Emergency Room Waiting Lines…police later recovered the stolen ambulance in

  What’s four-foot nine-inches tall, clad in plaid and sitting on your doorstep with a note pinned to it? Give up? Surprise! Now she’s your problem… This week on Parents Are Hard To Raise… Granny-dumping Links  Take Diane with you and listen whenever and wherever you

  Pole Dancing!  Seriously? Chronic Illness has a way of stripping both patient and caregiver of our sense of personal control. But in our natural struggle to regain it, could we be doing more harm than good?   When should we give in and let go? This week Diane shares her thoughts on

  It’s called “The Sweetheart Scam” and its gaining popularity among cybercriminals whose primary target is unsuspecting seniors. It’s unusually cruel, amazingly effective and is rendering international law enforcement agencies helpless.  This week Diane's special guest expert is personal security consultant Anthony Colandro, who shares tips on how to keep you and

  With so much listener feedback from last week’s show… this week Diane continues to share more of her tried and true, real-world  tips caregivers can use to help manage the sometimes overwhelmingly stressful manifestations of dementia. Links  Take Diane with you and listen whenever and

No disease of aging takes its toll on caregivers quite like dementia. This week on Parents Are Hard To Raise, Diane talks about the powers of music and dance to ease the symptoms of Dementia and deliver relief for both caregiver and sufferer. Links    Take

Have you ever noticed that you feel happy around happy people, sad around depressed people, or uneasy around anxious people? Research shows that if you spend enough time with people, their emotions will actually rub off on you. It’s called emotional contagion. And this week Diane shows how it affects caregivers and their

There’s something in our human nature that causes us to want to collect things. Some collect autographs, some collect coins, stamps or other memorabilia. Collecting can be fun. But as we grow older, there’s a chance our innocent pastime can turn into something else. This week… Diane explores the darker side of collecting

This week on Parents Are Hard To Raise… Diane shares tips on Managing Chronic Pain, and preventing pressure sores. And we’d like to welcome those of you in Great Britain to our growing family of listeners! Links Here's a link to a Blog post about The study Diane cited on "pressure

Do you remember how your mom could tell you were sick just by looking at you? This week on Parents Are Hard To Raise… Learn the subtle signs scientists are now saying can tip us off that a person is about to fall ill. Plus… learn why our aging parents might truly feel

It’s one of those problems no one talks about. Even though over half of us will suffer from it as we grow older. In addition to the physical discomfort, life threatening and altering side effects, those affected must endure the emotional burdens of shame and embarrassment. For caregivers it adds to the psychological

This week on Parents Are Hard To Raise…Parkinson’s Disease… how to recognize the early symptoms, some innovative self help tips, plus new technology and scientific breakthroughs that are offering some real help. Links Folinic Acid and Parkinson's Disease https://scienceofparkinsons.com/tag/folinic-acid/ https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/news-and-analysis/research-briefing/folinic-acid-shows-potential-for-parkinsons-disease-in-fruit-flies/20202514.article https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2017/march/new-research-suggests-bowel-cancer-medication-could-help-combat-early-onset-parkinson2019s-disease Parkinson's disease detected by smell http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-42252411 High- intensity exercise can

This week Diane answers a listener's question, "Why is my mother showing signs of PTSD when it was my father who is in the ICU?" Caregiver PTSD is a real thing.  Find out this week what you as a child of aging parents can do to prevent caregiver PTSD.  Diane suggests that the

This week Diane answers the question, “What does it mean to be a caregiver?”   We're introduced to the term "Elder Orphan." Plus some great ideas for caregiver holiday gifts that don’t involve shopping. And from the entire crew here at Parents Are Hard to Raise… Happy Christmas!! Links: StandUpForCaregivers.org

This week Diane answers a heartfelt listener email from a frazzled daughter in Fairfield, Idaho who is feeling guilty about feeling guilty. Plus… What the sugar industry was hoping you’d never find out, and a connection between smoking and frailty in the elderly.   Listen and Subscribe on

This week Diane answers listener emails from Matsumoto Japan and Naperville, Illinois, on the challenges of finding a compassionate and elder-wise doctor, plus… How primary caregivers can use the Holidays to their advantage.   Listen and Subscribe on Google Play and Stitcher     Follow Diane on Social