Battle of the Ages
Just when you thought that a family caregiver’s job couldn’t get more difficult, consider this: Many of the estimated 61,000 households caring for a senior in Wake County are trying to help an aging relative who’d rather not have help. Read moreThere's No Place Like Home McCarthy has lived in his home for 35 years. Five years ago, he suffered complications from knee-replacement surgery that left him wheelchair-bound and unable to drive. Now he gets around with the help of paid companions, wheelchair-accessible public transportation, and assistive devices and renovations that let him navigate his home and keep him safe. Read moreFranchising the Care and Feeding of Grandma In 1994, while keeping his grandmother company at his mom's house in Omaha, Neb., Paul Hogan hatched a business. Barely mobile when her children moved the 89-year-old in, Grandma Hogan, newly pumped up by attention, would live to be a lively 100. What, Paul wondered, did families without available kin do? Read more |
