Julie’s Blog

Should a paid companion be considered a friend? One of my family members feels that fraternities and sororities are paying for friends instead of making them organically. Yet, people maintain life long friendships with fraternity and sorority brothers and sisters long...

How to know when it is time to ask for help Caregiver burnout is a huge problem. If you live with the person needing care, or visit daily for hours, you are especially at risk. Your life is on hold while your spouse or parent's well-being becomes your whole life. If...

What exactly is therapeutic fibbing? When I first started working with the elderly, there was a practice of being very honest with people with dementia. Brutally honest. If they were calling for their mother, you would 'reorient' them and tell them their mother died...

This is a much better alternative to court I have written a few articles about siblings who don't help their aging parents. What happens when siblings, or even the parent themselves, disagrees about major decisions? It is time to call in an elder mediator. Just as a...

How you can be a little kinder toward the elderly. In the last few months our world has changed radically from what we once knew. No one could have guessed even in February of 2020 that we would have a global pandemic and mass demonstrations about race inequality at...