Weighing your options to protect you and your loved one’s financial future as you get older? Investing in a Home Health Care and/or Long-Term Care plan from your association’s trusted partner AMBA could be the most important investment you ever make. AMBA has decades of experience providing high-quality coverage at
Children Below. Parents Above. Stressed-Out Caregivers in the Middle. In 1981, social worker Dorothy Miller coined the name “the sandwich generation”. The term describes adult children who are “sandwiched” between their aging parents and their own maturing children. Many people thought retirement would be a time to finally be free
Recovering from a hospital stay can be cause for great relief, but here’s a statistic to consider: Older adults are even more at risk for dehydration, poor nutrition, weakness, and falls during the first 24-48 hours at home from a hospital visit. To help prevent complications, illness and even readmission
While most of our fears are learned, there are only two we’re born with: loud noises and falling. Nobody wants to fall, and understandably so. There’s very little control, if any. We’re never sure how we’ll land, only that it’s going to hurt—not just our body but also our self-esteem.
While many of us are good at giving help, asking for it is another story. We think it’s uncool. We’re afraid we’ll appear weak, give up control, or be a burden. None of these assumptions, of course, is true. Here’s the reality: • Asking for help is an act of