Author and co-founder

Olea Ahmann, RP

Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario specializing in older adults and family caregivers. Creator and Chief Product Officer of Nestoa.

About Olea

Olea’s work focuses on the emotional and practical reality of family care: responsibility, guilt, boundaries, sibling conflict, role reversal, ambiguous grief, and the hard decisions that arise as parents age.

She is also a family caregiver. That experience informs the questions Nestoa takes seriously, but it is not presented as a substitute for formal evidence or qualified review.

Olea Ahmann, RP

About Olea

Articles

When an aging parent refuses home care

When a parent denies memory problems

Repeated questions or calls in dementia: what to say

Responding to accusations and suspicions in dementia

When a person with dementia resists bathing

Dementia agitation: what to say in the moment

When siblings will not help with an aging parent

How to ask a sibling for specific caregiving help

Before calling a doctor about an aging parent

Does my aging parent need more help? Signs to notice and what to do next

When an aging parent refuses to stop driving

When an aging parent keeps falling but refuses help

The hospital wants to discharge your parent, but home does not feel safe

How to talk to an aging parent about assisted living

When is it time for memory care?

The guilt after moving a parent into assisted living or memory care

When a person with dementia says, “I want to go home”

Dementia wandering at night: make the plan before someone goes missing

Dementia and sundowning: a plan for difficult evenings and nights

My aging parent was scammed: what should we do now?

Long-distance caregiving: what to check when you cannot be there

“I cannot keep doing this”: what to do about caregiver burnout

Resentment while caring for an aging parent

When a person with dementia refuses medication