Helpful IOG Publications
Transitions Newsletters
Press Releases
Biannual Reports
Caregiver Connection E-News
Healthier Black Elders Newsletters
Successful Aging thru Financial Empowerment (SAFE) Booklets
Protecting Yourself from Financial Exploitation
Household Finances
Understanding Credit
Retirement & Estate Planning
Helping Handbooks Series
The IOG, with assistance from family caregivers at the DMC West Nursing Home (Southfield, MI), compiled the Helping Handbooks below to assist caregivers whose loved ones are living in a nursing home. Click to view or download a free copy (PDF). Appropriate for all health care professionals and families of persons in long-term care.
Making the most of visits to nursing home residents who have dementia
Taking care of yourself while taking care of a loved one who's in a nursing home
Understanding and dealing with problem behaviors of nursing home residents
Mental health and nursing home residents
Living with loss: When a loved one dies in a nursing home