Life Happens

Therapeutic Support for Stroke Patients: "You give them those opportunities to do those portions because what you're doing is allowing them to strengthen themselves, gain strength, gain endurance,...

Misunderstanding about Medicare coverage: "And what they're really referring to is, you know, my great aunt fell and busted her hip. And, she went into rehab, and she was in there for, you know, for...

The Difference Between Caregiver and Companion Services: "A caregiver is hands-on care. That's for a senior who has progressed their aging journey to the point where they may need some hands-on care...

The Challenges of Caregiving: "Yeah, there are several challenges. I would say the top three. One is definitely dealing with caregiver guilt. What happens for the family caregiver all of a sudden,...

Home Equity Conversion: "So the real advantage of the home equity conversion is you now have your own piggy bank because it's your own money. You can use it any way you want to use it. And if it's to...

The Link Between Periodontal Disease and Diabetes: "If you have periodontal disease and, say diabetes, the periodontal disease makes the diabetes much worse. And they found, actual research has been...

LGBTQ+ Discrimination in Senior Centers: "How can they acclimate themselves from identifying as being in an LGBT community and then having to just not disclose what they are once they go into, a...

"Home Care: 'They can assist with things in the home that you can't do as well as you used to.' Companion Care: 'Sometimes we just need someone to talk to, someone, to help read a newspaper or a...

"Don't just take it. You know, I've seen people pushed out of the hospital way before they were honestly, you know, emotionally ready. I mean, everything is a process."— Jodi Kay Benusa In my...

"Smaller in those situations is probably going to work out better because there's more opportunity for one-on-one care. The staffing ratios are typically a little bit smaller. The community is a...

"You never correct them. You never ask them questions that are gonna confuse them, and you just enter their world with them."— Susan Cushman 🎙️ Calling all caregivers and adult children...

The Power of Singing to Organize and Calm: "What it's actually doing is helping somebody be organized cognitively. It's helping someone be organized neurologically. And it's this organization that...

“Caring for a Spouse with Dementia: "When you've been married 20, 30, 40 years, that person is an extension of you. And so, it takes a great deal of effort to suddenly realize what part of you is...

"We put physicians on such a high pedestal sometimes, which isn't a bad thing unless it prevents us from doing our job of being an advocate. And so just realize, that one, they're human too. Two,...

How a grassroots Facebook group is advocating for nursing home residents: "We are just families that want to get stuff done. That's all we are."— Mary Nichols   On this episode of Life Happens...

Retirement Planning: "Either we learn from what our parents did right or maybe we learned from what they didn't do right."— Michelle Alleman   In this episode of Life Happens with Kim Hegwood, we...

Finding Calm Amid Chaos: "The biggest piece to going from chaos to calm is understanding and accepting that your life has changed, accepting that you're going to do the best you can with the...

"Dementia is not the end of your life. It's just the beginning of something different." — Peter Berry In this episode of Life Happens with Kim Hegwood, the speaker shares their personal experience...

Mediation is the opportunity for the family to have a qualified conversation where they have been nibbling with each other. They are now in the presence of a professional who's going to help them...

I take the time to go visit them. Usually, it's 20 to 30 minutes. I'll usually take a photograph. Some families have asked me to take a bouquet of flowers. Some people have asked me to coordinate a...