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5 Reasons Why Now is the Time to Move into Senior Living

5 Reasons Why Now is the Time to Move into Senior Living

The decision to transition a loved one into senior living is a significant and often challenging choice. Age often brings changing medical needs, or a decline of pre-existing conditions. The right senior care solution (or combination of solutions) should help families...

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5 Ways Siblings Can Best Care for Aging Parents Together

5 Ways Siblings Can Best Care for Aging Parents Together

Caring for aging parents is a profound responsibility that often brings families together. However, it can also unearth complexities in sibling-to-sibling relationships as well as sibling-to-parent relationships, testing bonds and challenging dynamics. When multiple...

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Normal Aging vs. Memory Loss

Normal Aging vs. Memory Loss

As we age, we experience gradual changes to our mind and body. These changes may bring along physical and mental challenges that can increase our risk of developing diseases. According to the World Health Organization, each person should have the ability to live a...

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How to Know the Right Time to Move Into Memory Care

How to Know the Right Time to Move Into Memory Care

Moving a senior loved one into a memory care community is not a decision that can be made lightly. Often it takes careful consideration and conversations amongst family being that it can represent a major lifestyle change. Progressing medical conditions, especially...

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How to Talk to Your Parents About In-Home Care

How to Talk to Your Parents About In-Home Care

Introduction: As our loved ones age, their needs may change, and at times, they may require additional support and care. One viable option for seniors in need of assistance, especially those with memory care requirements, is in-home care. In-home care can mean...

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Sex and Seniors: The Benefits of Staying Active As We Age

Sex and Seniors: The Benefits of Staying Active As We Age

Intimacy, a sense of closeness, and emotional bonding is a natural desire for all humans. Emotional intimacy occurs when we share similar values with another person, while developing trust and feelings with them. Physical intimacy refers to actions like hugging,...

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Discussing Services for Seniors With Your Loved One

Discussing Services for Seniors With Your Loved One

From an early age, we learn that parents are the adults who we turn to for help, advice, attention, and care. As our families grow and age, these roles can reverse, and we can start to see our parents as the ones who need that same level of attention and care. Asking...

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Why Seniors Need Socialization

Why Seniors Need Socialization

According to the National Institute on Aging, nearly three in ten American seniors live alone. Independent living has its challenges, one of them being that seniors spend more time alone, which can greater impact their mental and physical health. In fact, loneliness...

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Signs Your Loved One May Need Assisted Living or Memory Care

Signs Your Loved One May Need Assisted Living or Memory Care

Aging can best be described as more of an art than a science, based on how personal it can be for each individual. Aging comes with varying health concerns, challenges for the surrounding family, and no matter what, tough decisions eventually have to be made. One of...

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Caregiver Support Groups 2023

Berman Commons Hosts Free, In-Person Caregiver Support Groups Monthly (Revised 5/30/2023) Jewish HomeLife’s assisted living community, Berman Commons in Dunwoody, will begin holding Caregiver Support Groups each month, in person for the first time since the pandemic...

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5 Benefits of Socialization for Seniors at Any Age

5 Benefits of Socialization for Seniors at Any Age

5 Benefits of Socialization for Seniors  We all know regular socialization is important. Catching up with old friends, enjoying an activity with family, or trying a new hobby with like-minded people is a great way to boost your mood. But for seniors, it actually has...

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Harley Tabak Letter to the Editor: Atlanta Jewish Times

Harley Tabak Letter to the Editor: Atlanta Jewish Times

Letter to the Editor: Atlanta Jewish Times As I transition to CEO Emeritus of Jewish HomeLife April 1st, and full retirement December 31st, I have thought a lot about the changes I have seen in my 43-year career caring for older adults, and what I expect will occur in...

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Jeffrey A. Gopen Becomes CEO of Jewish HomeLife

Jeffrey A. Gopen Becomes CEO of Jewish HomeLife

On April 1, 2022 Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey A. Gopen became the new President & CEO of Jewish HomeLife following the retirement of longtime CEO Harley Tabak. The move follows the announcement in January that Tabak would step down in April, becoming the CEO...

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