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Assisted living in the Kansas City area runs a median of $6,828 a month, while our care is $34 an hour. That means the cheaper option depends almost entirely on how many hours of help a week your parent needs. Here is where the math flips, what each choice buys, and the three questions that decide it.

Six in ten people living with dementia will wander at least once. It is not stubbornness. There is a reason behind it, warning signs ahead of it, and a handful of changes at the front door that make a real difference. Here is what to do, in order.

A parent with dementia who says nothing is wrong usually believes it, and that changes what works. Here are the four refusals we run into most often in Johnson County, a shower, a caregiver at the door, the car keys and the flat denial, with what to try and what makes each one worse.

Families wait for a fall to make the decision for them. The clearer signal is your own week: lost sleep, missed work, a full day off you have not had in months. Here are six signs family caregiving has passed its limit, what changes when a caregiver comes in, and how to start small.