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Home Alone – Is Your Elderly Parent OK?

by Mike Gamble

Home Alone – Is Your Elderly Parent OK?

Whether they live in their own home, or if you care for an elderly parent in your own home, you will eventually have to decide if you can still to leave them alone for an hour, an afternoon or an entire day. Will they be safe? Will they wander off? Will they let strangers into the house? Will they turn on the stove and forget to turn it off? … Continue Reading →

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