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5 Tips to Make Your Grandchild’s Visit to a Nursing Home a Happy One

By Nicole Fonovich, author of Luca Lashes and his First Trip to the Nursing Home, from the “Luca Lashes” interactive app and eBook series

Visiting an older parent or grandparent in a nursing home is enough of a challenge for most busy adults today. Add bringing the kids along, and this job just got a [...]

How a Nursing Home Visit Can be Fun for the Grandparents & the Grandkids

By Jonathan Rosenfeld

You can make a visit to a nursing home fun for grandparents and grandkids

Staying in touch with family is critical for grandparents, but it can be hard for you if you live in a nursing home or even take advantage of assisted living. It doesn’t have to be that way, if [...]

Are You a Family Caregiver?

By: Christine Crosby, Editorial Director for GRAND Magazine

I just read where a third of grandparents who care full time for their grandchildren are still in the work force. But add to that the fact that most of these grandparents (average age 55) are also caring, on some level, for a parent or other senior [...]

Nursing Homes in Trouble

What you need to know to protect elderly loved ones — and yourself

By Rachael Kennedy

 

Rachael Kennedy

Baby boomers today are at a strange age; nearing retirement, most are experiencing the happiness inherent in becoming a grandparent as well as the often painful challenges associated with aging parents and elder care. Everyone [...]

A Third of Grandparent Caregivers Are Also in the Labor Force

I just learned from The Sloan Center on Aging that according to a 2011 analysis of American Community Survey data, “more than one-third (36 percent) of the 915,000 grandparents ages 60 and older who are caring for their grandchildren were in the labor force in 2010.”

The irony of this is that these grandparents [...]