Paul Hogan grew up with caregiving. When his grandmother fell ill, his mother cheerfully told her siblings she would provide care.

"The family felt my grandmother might live a year, at most. She was so weak," Hogan recalls. "Well, the year turned into 11, plus another 10 years of relative independence with limited assistance, companionship and light housekeeping for my grandmother."

His grandmother was near 101 when she died.

As he notes, a few decades ago...

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Home Instead Senior Care, provider of nonmedical home care for older adults, recently held its monthlong "Be a Santa to a Senior" drive to collect gifts for its aging clients.

Area Walgreens stores, Ike's, Fantastic Sam's, The Village at Germantown and Baptist Trinity Home Care & Hospice were participating sponsors whose customers and employees took ornaments from trees detailing what was needed for gifts to be purchased and donated.

"While children are the beneficiaries of many holiday programs, we often don't think about the isolated and lonely seniors who need to be remembered as well.

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For many, this time of year is filled with holiday cheer. Friends, family and loved ones come together to celebrate the season, putting smiles on the faces they care about most.

For others, the holidays can be a reminder of just how lonely and isolated they are. It's with these people in mind that businesses and volunteers ...

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I was still in high school when my father was fired from the San Francisco Examiner. My dad loved the newspaper business and his job working with the newsboys who sold papers on street corners.

I will never forget that afternoon. I came home from school to find my father in the kitchen, bent over the kitchen sink with his head in his hands. My heart went out to him -- I knew he must be devastated. But then Dad straightened up, grinned, and said ...

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Stan Fryer, 83, takes cooking very seriously.

His wife, Shirley, 81, has Alzheimer's disease. Shirley was diagnosed in 2001. Five years before that, she lost her sense of taste and smell after a stroke. If Fryer didn't put food in front of her, she just wouldn't eat.

"She just doesn't feel hungry," the White Rock man said recently. "The most important thing in her case, is ...

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From bnd.com, by Suzanne Boyle

There is no way to completely understand how complicated and heart-wrenching it can be to care for someone you love who is aging unless you've done it.

I believe I am blessed with an above-average sense of empathy, of feeling and understanding what people I interview are going through or have been through. I have always thought it made me a better writer (and human being)...

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From Business Week, August 6, 2009

On a Tuesday night in late July, Jon Meyers, 42, got the call every child with an elderly parent dreads. His 84-year-old mother, Ruth, who suffers from dementia, had fallen in her kitchen and was heading to a New Jersey hospital by ambulance. But instead of agonizing over not being able to get there quickly -it's four hours from his home in Washington, D.C., to Point Pleasant, N.J.- Meyers took comfort in the fact that Stephen Mielach, a geriatric care manager, was following the ambulance, ready to take control.

Before 2007, Meyers had never heard of geriatric care managers (also called geriatric case managers). But then his mother...

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From TV Station WFMJ, August, 2009

NBC affiliate WFMJ in Youngstown Ohio shared this story about the importance of senior nutrition.  Highlighting Home Instead Senior Care's newest public education campaign, "Cooking Under Pressure" this story confirms that achieving a well-balanced diet is not as easy as it sounds. The physical limitations of aging often make shopping, cooking and dining a challenge for many seniors who want to stay healthy.

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