September 2026 Caregiver Connection
September 21, 2026
September 2026 Caregiver Connection-compressed
September 2026 Caregiver Connection-compressed
Back-to-school season brings a familiar kind of chaos. New alarm times, backpacks by the door, after-school pickup plans that need to click into place by the first week of August. If you’re a parent, you already know the drill. What’s easy to miss is that this same season often changes a second schedule in your
Independence in later life isn’t luck. Research on longevity and healthy aging points to a consistent set of daily habits that show up again and again in people who stay active, sharp, and self-sufficient well into their 80s and 90s. None of these habits require major life changes. They’re small, repeatable choices that add up.
Most people treat oral health as separate from overall health. In older adults, that separation can be costly. The mouth is not isolated from the rest of the body, and what happens there tends to show up elsewhere. Research links poor oral health in seniors to serious conditions including heart disease, diabetes complications, pneumonia, and
Every year, more than one in four adults over 65 experiences a fall. In 2024 alone, 43,020 older adults died as a result of a preventable fall, and over 3.85 million were treated in emergency departments for fall-related injuries. Over the past decade, fall-related deaths among older adults have increased by 51 percent. Those numbers
