Stop Warning Your Parents About Specific Scams. Teach Them This Instead.
By Jason Guy Mendenhall Founder, Utah Senior Care Advisors | Author, The Changing Face of Senior Living: What Every Family Needs to Know In 35 years of working in and around senior care, I’ve watched more good people get taken advantage of than I can count. Not because they were naive. Not because they weren’t […]
25 Things to Look For When Touring an Assisted Living Community
See more tips in my book The Changing Face of Senior Living https://a.co/d/0fPgZYmi. Touring an assisted living community can feel overwhelming — especially if you’re doing it while juggling work, family, and the emotional weight of helping a parent or spouse make a major life transition. A polished lobby and a friendly sales pitch can […]
What Elvis’s Guitar Player Taught Me About Getting Old
By Jason Guy Mendenhall Founder, Utah Senior Care Advisors | Author, The Changing Face of Senior Living link to my book https://a.co/d/0fPgZYmi. I grew up inside an assisted living community in Salt Lake City. While other kids had neighborhood friends, I had Holocaust survivors, World War II veterans, a presidential photographer, the first woman bank […]
Respecting the Beliefs of Our Seniors
There is a continued struggle as we age to be connected to a sense of belief we have held for a lifetime. What does that mean, exactly? Well, it’s simple. Spirituality and depth of belief are such personal ideas combined with a sense of faith, hope, and love. However, this doesn’t always align with how […]
How To Help a Senior Who is Forgetful
There is nothing easy about our loved ones growing older, and with that comes the unfortunate reality that sometimes, their very full memories start to become harder to recall. The daily routines that were once second nature no longer seem automatic. The normal tasks start to have short bursts of blank time. Soon, the accompanying […]
Choosing the Right Assisted Living Facility: Questions Family Should Ask
Deciding to place a loved one in an assisted living facility is never easy. The process can be overwhelming, often accompanied by a whirlwind of emotions we may not be prepared for. Yet, the challenge of transitioning someone to assisted living doesn’t necessarily become easier with more research into finding the “right” place—if such a […]
The Emotional Impact of Choosing Hospice Care for a Loved One
Imagine you are sitting in a hospital, surrounded by the fervent energy pulsating around you. You hear the constant sounds of beeping, chirping, carts, and monitors while medical staff move quickly to care for numerous patients. In a room just a few feet away, your dearest loved one has been battling a terminal illness for […]
What are Senior Care Advisors?
There comes a time in the lives of those in their golden years when decisions are made, and they decide to take up residency in a senior care facility or assisted living scenario. Like all things, the variance of these new homes is different in many ways, but they can offer a better quality of […]
How Can Senior Care Advisors Help?
Asking for help is never easy. Many view this as a sign of weakness or insecurity. Sometimes, others see someone asking for help and immediately look at that as an opportunity to take advantage of a person or family. It’s hard to admit when help is needed. Self-education and knowledge are wonderful ways to gain […]
Preparing for a Transition to Senior Care – A Checklist
Transition doesn’t have to be a word that invokes fear. Taken by its literal definition, it can mean a link from one place to another. When elders come to a point in their lives where it’s time to transition to senior care, it’s important to remember that it’s a change filled with connections from a […]