Highgate Blog

February 22, 2019    Highgate Senior Living

Topic: Caregiver & Family Resources, Memory Loss Resources

3 Ways Loneliness Might Increase Risk of Dementia

Loneliness is a growing epidemic. Approximately 42.6 million adults over age 45 in the United States are estimated to be suffering from chronic loneliness, according to ....

February 15, 2019    Highgate Senior Living

Topic: Caregiver & Family Resources

How to Manage Long-Distance Caregiver Guilt

If you live an hour or more away from a person who needs care, you are a long-distance caregiver. Long-distance caregivers often struggle with making sure they....

February 8, 2019    Highgate Senior Living

Topic: Caregiver & Family Resources

Slideshow: 7 Common Emotions Caregivers Experience

When you become a family caregiver, there are a lot of emotions that are bound to surface, from fear of all the things that “might” happen while being a caregiver to....

February 8, 2019    Highgate Senior Living

Topic: Caregiver & Family Resources

7 Ways to Cope with Caregiver Guilt

You cannot live a completely guilt-free life, so there is no such thing as entirely guilt-free caregiving, either. However, you can keep your feelings of guilt within....

February 8, 2019    Highgate Senior Living

Topic: Caregiver & Family Resources

Infographic: Feeling Guilty? You Are Not Alone

Do you ever feel jealous of your friends who are able to go out and do things that you can no longer do because of your caregiving responsibilities? What about anxiety....

February 1, 2019    Highgate Senior Living

Topic: Caregiver & Family Resources

Why Caregivers Feel Guilty

If there is one emotion that nearly anyone caring for an aging loved one can count on feeling, it is guilt.

January 4, 2019    Highgate Senior Living

Topic: Assisted Living Resources, Caregiver & Family Resources

How to Make Your Loved One's New Home Feel Like Home

Change is difficult for everyone, but moving when you are over 65 brings many more dramatic changes. Not only are seniors often coping with aging, but now they are also....

December 21, 2018    Highgate Senior Living

Topic: Caregiver & Family Resources

5 Tips for Helping Your Parents Downsize the Family Home

Ten years ago, Johanne Lebeau was confronted with the reality and the responsibility of relocating her father, who lived thousands of miles away, after he broke his hip.....

December 21, 2018    Highgate Senior Living

Topic: Caregiver & Family Resources

What Is a Senior Real Estate Specialist and Why Should You Use One?

At some point you, your siblings, or your parents might look around the four-bed, three-bath 3,000-square-foot house and wonder, Is it time to sell the family home?

In....