How to Help Your Aging Parent Manage Medication From Far Away
September is the month the world turns its attention to chronic disease and healthy aging — it is Healthy Aging Month in the US and World Alzheimer’s Month across the globe. If your parents live a few towns, or a few countries, away, this is a good moment to ask a quiet question: are they actually taking what they have been prescribed, and are those prescriptions still right for them? You are not being paranoid. You are being a caregiver. And you are far from alone in the worry. You are in crowded company More than 53 million Americans act as unpaid caregivers for an aging relative, and medication management […]