Today’s guest, Emilia Bourland, OT joins us to discuss the challenges caregivers face and ways to support and educate them in order to reduce their stress as well as improve their patients’/clients’ outcomes.

Watch as Daisy Winter with Good Shepherd Hospice uses music to improve communication and conversation with those suffering with terminal illnesses.

Stopping elder sexual abuse requires believing it can happen, and it does. We must identify the risks and learn the signs of abuse and how to prevent it.

Nearly every day we receive calls from concerned family members and seniors themselves about their Medicare Advantage plans. Often times, what they were told, or what they thought they were, doesn’t match up to the reality once they need healthcare services. Today’s show will help to expose some of the myths, half-truths and restrictions to care many seniors face, as well as what to do about it.

There are a ton of options, both large and small for senior care in the Dallas/Ft Worth area. Sage Oak of Denton is a blending of the best of both worlds. They offer a resident and staff-focused approach to care for older adults. We create happier communities with this vision. With smaller settings and fewer residents, Sage Oak team members have more time to focus on individualized care. Caregivers can keep a closer eye on the needs of each resident.

Often times following a medical crisis or injury, a patient isn’t quite ready yet to return home. This can lead to anxiety for the patient and family members as they’re not sure how to manage returning home. Today’s guests are here to discuss inpatient rehabilitation, who it’s for and the benefits of choosing this setting.

What are other options when older bodies have multiple health issues and current treatments are producing little to no improvement? And what are some of the causes for confusion around these options? Today’s guests are here to help explain hospice and palliative care and what to look for in quality providers.

We’re living in an age where length of life has more than doubled in the last 200 years. Medical advancements, better nutrition as well as technology have continued to extend our lives. However, we are now dealing with bodies that have a lot of wear and tear. Age related muscle loss, known as sarcopenia, also leads to functional decline and is associated with many chronic illnesses. This not only impacts safety, but quality of life in older individuals.

Best Selling Author and Research Nurse, Amanda Skenandore, shares her latest book, The Second Life of Muriel West, the story of a high society woman in Hollywood diagnosed with leprosy. She is then sent to the first leprosy colony in the country.

Approximately 1 million Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. That number is growing by nearly 90,000 annually. Austen and Mallory Spoonts are our guests today and talking about their unique approach to combatting this disease.