Alfredo Torres, OTRP, chief occupational therapist of the National Center for Mental Health, has provided a list of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia and tips on how caregivers can
WHAT is it like to live for a hundred years? The question has been on my mind as we anticipate my mother’s hundredth birthday on October 26. Born in 1911,
Filipinos and other Asians like to scoff at the western countries’ nursing homes for the aged, describing them as examples of “western materialism,” institutions where the young “dump” their parents
3.6 million: Estimated number of Filipinos aged 65 and older, according to the latest data from the National Statistics Office as of 2007. This figure represents 4.1 percent of the
Joseph “Pepe” Rodriguez, 81, admits he’d become “a semi-recluse” before venturing from his apartment last spring to the clunking sounds coming from a recreation room at the Piedmont Senior Apartments in North Hollywood.
DEFY youth and feel good about it. That’s what COSE or the Coalition of Services for the Elderly has been doing for the past 21 years, as it trains the
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