No one likes to think of his or her parents as needing help. However, the truth is many seniors need non-medical in-home senior care in order to go on living in their home. Without this additional help, they would lose their independence and be forced to move into a senior care facility.

Whether your parents need help with daily chores, help with personal care, help with mobility, or general all-day help, the stress on the family can really add up.

Sleep is vital to relax, recharge and refresh the body as well as mind. The amount of sleep needed each night is different for every individual and it depends on various factors like age, type of work and lifestyle.

A recent study suggests that elderly adults need lesser sleep than their young counterparts. Elderly people can do with 6-7 hours of sleep whereas younger/mid aged people need 7-8 hours of sleep every day.

We don't get to pick our parents but we often have to assist in caring for them in their elder years. If you have or had harsh feelings towards your parents, stepping in to help in the elderly years can be extremely difficult and in many cases, the adult child refuses to help.

Whether our parents abused us or were mean to us or we perceived we were not loved as well as we needed or as we should have been, idea of being around your aging parent is problem not one of those things you want to do.

When we care for our elderly parents, our lives become more complicated and difficult. While we try to provide love and care for our aging loved ones, resentment and negativity often enters our lives too. Feeling negative, behaving in a negative way and speaking in a negative fashion often creeps up on a person and it will actually make any situation worse.

Being a caregiver for your aging parents is a tough job and there are 6 typical challenges faced: constipation, lack of drinking/hydration, not eating well, not sleeping well, depression or poor mood, joint issues and energy. Add to this the fact many senior adults begin to slowly not take all of their medications as prescribed and many issues will arise.

We all have experienced some form of depression in our lives at some point, but there is a myth that depression in senior adults is normal. As people age, many different things occur that will sadden us but when does it cross the line from being normal sadness, into depression?

I personally saw my mother become severely depressed after understanding she had Alzheimer's disease and what that meant.

If dementia has entered the picture before you purchase, a walk in bathtub may turn into a safety hazard. The situation would be different if a person had already become comfortable using the walk in bathtub before dementia began.

Here are some of the common problems that caregivers have observed when they have purchased a walk in bathtub for an aged parent with some level of dementia.

If you are thinking of moving into a home, building one that you can retire in, or wondering how you can make your elderly parent's home easier to live in - there are some things to look for to make living as a Senior Adult or a person with a disability easier. Here is a list of 21 proven helpful ideas and tips.

1. Rocker style light switches and lots of ways to turn lights on/off from different locations - commonly known as 2-way or 3-way.

Many senior adults avoid traveling as they get older for a variety of reasons. All travelers experience physical and/or some kind of mental discomfort when traveling but other factors in a person's life may make traveling more of a challenge.

Whether you have a temporary physical challenge or a permanent one, traveling can be viewed as something to be avoided or as a painful experience and something to never do again.

As adults, we realize and except that we don't and won't see eye-to-eye with our parents and that to argue about it or try to get our aging parents to change their point of view, is pretty much useless. We learn to listen, try to help and not react after you've been told the same thing for the 14th time or when you are told again you didn't do something right.