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Articles about caregiving (0-50 of 121)
- Fairy Tales For Caregivers: What's The Lesson?
By: Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson | - Fairy tales weave in and out of our lives as children and unless we grow up, marry and have children ourselves, fairy tales become part of our forgotten past. Did you ever consider that historical fairy tales, fables and poems reflect virtues and lessons valuable today in navigating care for ourselves and our loved ones?
The following are selected stories from The Book of Virtues, a Treasury of Great Moral Stories to which I have added a practical twist that relates to caregivin ...
Tags: caregiving, caregiver education, fairy tale caregiving, caregiving fairy tales
- Birth Order Dictates Caregiving Qualities
By: Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson | - Did you ever consider that birth order can indicate the quality of caregiver we will become for a loved one? That birth order also indicates the role we play in our marital relationships? By learning more about the characteristics of birth we can improve our relationships within our immediate families and within the families we acquire through marriage.
1) Where do you fall? Are you charming, manipulative, do you blame others for things that go wrong in your life? Do you like ...
Tags: caregiving, birth order, marriage, family, children, personality
- Dysfunctional Families Stopping The Madness
By: Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson | - In what can be called normal families, individuals have the ability to acknowledge problems, discuss differences of opinion and be able to work together to change situations. By looking at family structure, background can be provided on why some individuals are dysfunctional. This information allows us to improve our own functionality and work within what we see as challenging situations by helping us respond with appropriate action.
1. Stop enabling the bad behavior of your famil ...
Tags: Dysfunctional Families, Caregiving, Stress, Family History, Health Care, Elder Abuse
- Elderly Home Care: 30 Signs Your Loved One May Require Adult Home Care
By: Colmer | - It is not always easy to know when to intervene. It may seem like your loved one is in a gray area somewhere between competency and incompetence. Your loved one can have a behavior that is not life threatening but still very serious. Making an assessment is the very step. Here are some clues that your loved one may need some extra help:
1.Disheveled clothes
2.Stained or dirty clothes The same outfit worn everyday
3.Unkempt hair
4.Poor hygiene
5.Bad breath
Tags: management, medical, financial, caregiving, communication, Marketing, business.
- Elderly Home Care: Ten Caregiver Tips On Home Care For The Elderly
By: Colmer | - 1.Every caregiver should know as much as possible about the care-receiver. You should know their characteristics and personality style. For example, you should know their likes, dislikes, family members, ailments, etc. You should know if the care-receiver is outgoing or reserved, task-oriented or people-oriented. Once you get to know them better you will be able to understand their needs and behavior patterns.
2.Every caregiver should know and understand his/her responsibilities, ...
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- 10 Things To Know About Hospice And Hospice Home Care
By: Colmer | - 1.Hospice care is provided to terminally ill individuals and their families. The focus of hospice is care, not cure. Think of it as subset of palliative care. It is a program of supportive care services providing physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care for dying persons, their families and loved ones.
2.Most hospice services are available in both the home and in-patient settings. Hospice home care is provided either on a part time, intermittent, regularly scheduled, or around ...
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- Generational Issues Challenge Family Caregiving
By: Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson | - Every generation uses the phrase "kids today" with a tone of disappointment. After all, the generation in which we were born is always the greatest. It is those that come after us that may be the problem. In discussing subjects related to caregiving, it is helpful to learn about different aspects of each generation and how these affect values, experiences, lifestyles and attitudes.
Each generation has a descriptive coined phrase. Baby Boomers, now aged 44-62, were born after Worl ...
Tags: generational differences, caregiving, Baby Boomers, health care, caring for loved ones
- 10 Tips For Taking Care Of A Caregiver
By: Colmer | - Keep in mind that what may be extremely stressful for you, may be a minor irritation for someone else, and maybe not all stressful to a third person. It is mainly your perception, interpretation, and response to an event that determines your stress level. However, certain events (such as long-term caregiving) tend to be viewed as highly stressful by most people, most of the time.
Stress can make you sick---physically, emotionally, or both at the same time. Sometimes, good caregiving can be ...
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- 10 Things You Should Know About Hospice Care
By: Colmer | - Hospice provides support and care for persons in the last phases of incurable diseases so that they may live as fully and comfortably as possible. Hospice recognizes dying as part of the normal process of living and focuses on maintaining the quality of remaining life.
Here are ten things you should know about hospice care:
1.Hospice is a special approach to caring for terminally ill patients that stresses palliative care (relief of pain and uncomfortable symptoms) as opposed to cur ...
Tags: management, medical, financial, caregiving, communication, M
- 10 Things Every Respite Caregiver Needs To Know
By: Colmer | - Respite services cover a wide range. They may include volunteer services, adult day care for the care-receiver, or even a care-receiver's brief stay in a nursing home or assisted living facility. They also could include a private duty nurse or adult foster care. Respite caregiving may be provided by a different family member or a friend who can stay with the care-receiver to give you a short break.
It is a good idea to schedule regular respite care so the primary caregiver always has a sch ...
Tags: management, medical, financial, caregiving, communication, M
- 10 Things Every Caregiver And Care-receiver Should Ask About Guardianship
By: Colmer | - 1.What is guardianship? Guardianship is a legal process used to insure that a person who is unable to make decisions on their own has someone specifically assigned to make decisions on their behalf. Usually, as a last resort, a judge decides if the care-receiver is no longer capable of managing his or her life. A person for whom a guardian is appointed is known as a ward.
2.What are the responsibilities of a guardian? The responsibilities of a guardian may include providing for the care ...
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- 10 Resources For Caregiving Help
By: Colmer | - 1.Family. The best starting place is with immediate family members. Use family helpers as much as possible. If they do not volunteer to help do not hesitate to ask them how they would like to contribute to the care of their loved one. One family member may be better suited for running errands while another is good at paying bills. Not everyone is willing or able to contribute the same level of care.
2.Friends. If friends, neighbors, distant relatives ask if there is anything they can do ...
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- Health Care Professionals Every Caregiver Needs To Know
By: Colmer | - When caregivers have knowledge of care-receivers' illnesses, they will be better able to communicate with attending doctors. It's important to find the right health care professional to be sure to get the proper care.
Here's a list of health care professionals that may be on your Care Team:
General Practitioner (G.P) Treats diseases and injuries, prescribe meds, perform minor surgeries and make referrals to specialists.
Medical Doctor (M.D.) Treats diseases and injuries ...
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- Family Care Tips: Care Giving For A Loved One With Alzheimer's Disease
By: Colmer | - Here are some family care tips for family members and caregivers:
1.Discuss early on a patient's wishes. Have an early and frank discussion with his/her primary physician, attorney, accountant, and financial advisors.
2.Early on make sure your loved one undergoes thorough and comprehensive evaluation, medically, neurologically, and psychiatrically.
3.Keep Alzheimer's patients in a familiar and safe environment.
4.Keep Alzheimer's patients in an independent setting ...
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- Seniors And Driving
By: Sheila Moody | - Even considering the idea of taking the car away from a parent is difficult for an adult child for two reasons. First, an adult son or daughter may feel that if they take away the car/driving rights, they are to blame for their parents loss of freedom, and may worry about the ensuing consequences such as frustration, anxiety, loss of self-esteem, and depression. Second is the practical issue of mobility and transportation. Many wonder. If my mother/father can no longer drive themselve ...
Tags: Seniors, driving, home care, elderly, caregiving
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- Seasonal Affective Disorder: Symptoms For Caregivers To Look For
By: Colmer | - It's that time of year againshorter days and grayer skies. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of seasonal depression, usually occurring in the winter, which affects millions of people a year between September and April with the peak occurring in the winter months of December, January, and February. True SAD is a seriously disabling illness, preventing people from functioning normally. (Combine this with caregiver stress and holiday stress, and the results can be disastrous).
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- Unrealistic Expectations About Caregiving
By: Colmer | - Many long-term caregiving situations occur due to unrealistic expectations by adult children and/or aging parents. It is not unusual for adult children to "promise" to never move parents out of their homes or put them in nursing homes. Some adult children try to avoid bringing outside help into their parents' homes because they believe they can do a better job than an outsider.
Some adult children end up changing their lifestyles, depleting their savings, and foregoing careers in ...
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- 10 Reasons To Keep Caregiving Records
By: Rebecca Sharp Colmer | - The caregiver role is complex and differs for everyone depending on the needs of the care-receiver (patient).
Many times, in the beginning, there may only be a few needs, such as providing transportation or helping with shopping or cooking.
Over time, needs increase, requiring additional services, until the care-receiver is fully dependent on the caregiver.
Becoming a caregiver is a big undertaking and it doesn't come with a specific job description. Often ...
Tags: online organizer, telehealth, caregiver, caregiving, caregiving records, caregiver stress
- When Alzheimer Beats Boomer
By: Dr Karen | - The latest 2008 statistics show there are at least 5.2 million Americans who suffer from Alzheimers disease. And with an increasing trend in the number of new cases, it will be doubly hard for the U.S. healthcare system to undertake the weighty task of care and treatment.
The recent projection reveals that the disease will remain a significant multi-faceted issue to plague the country in the next decades. The numbers suggest that by 2050, there will be close to a million new cases ...
Tags: Alzheimes, baby boomers, Boomer Caregiving
- 25 Bad Habits Every Caregiver Should Avoid
By: Rebecca Sharp Colmer | - A habit is a constant, often unconscious inclination to perform some act, acquired through its frequent repetition. If the habit is objectionable, we call it a "bad habit".
It's possible to control your habits and make a positive change in as little as 30 days. Focus on one habit at a time.
Caregiving bad habits often lead to increased stress and sometimes, even to elder abuse.
Elder abuse often starts as psychological abuse. If a caregiver doesn't properly deal with her/h ...
Tags: Caregiver assistance, caregiver, eldercare, caregiving, aging parents, home health
- 30 Signs Your Loved One May Need A Caregiver
By: Rebecca Sharp Colmer | - There are approximately 37 million people over the age of 65 and 5.3 million people over the age of 85. Each year millions of older people start requiring some sort of assistance to carry out their routine daily activities. Family members (family caregivers) provide most of the help.
It is not always easy to know when to intervene. It may seem like your loved one is in a gray area somewhere between competency and incompetence.
Your loved one can have a behavior tha ...
Tags: Caregiver assistance, caregiver, eldercare, caregiving, aging parents, home health
- Fighting For Family Members In Nursing Homes
By: Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson | - Whether your family member is in a nursing home or rehabilitation facility short or long term it is extremely important to be vigilant about their care. While many assume this is the responsibility of the facility providing care, do not become complacent and assume this is what actually occurs. Reality is often different. Many family members overlook or excuse the small things. A person not bathed frequently, a dirty room, increasing confusion or anxiety. There are so many things that can and do ...
Tags: nursing home care, rehab facility, healthcare issues, caregiving
- Caregiver Tips For Getting Through The Day
By: Rebecca Sharp Colmer | - The duties of the caregiver usually change and increase over a period of time. One of the most difficult aspects of the caregiver role is that the job continues seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
One way to help caregivers get through the day is to set up a care plan and develop a routine.
The caregiver's care plan is very similar to the nurse's plan of care and the hospice plan of care. It is a daily record of the care and treatment of the care-receiver.
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Tags: Caregiving, caregivers, eldercare, aging parents elderlaw, guardianship
- Caregiving: Role Reversal Between Parents And Children
By: Mary Sanders | - Looking Back
As children, many of us took for granted the countless hours of hard work our parents endured to ensure we grew into happy, healthy and respectable adults. By the time most people enter their early twenties it becomes very apparent how much time and dedication is needed to take care of another life almost 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Is there ever a time when you have the opportunity to show your parents just how much you appreciate everything theyve done f ...
Tags: caregiving, senior health care, home health care, long term care
- Holiday Stress Relief For Caregivers
By: Rebecca Sharp Colmer | - If you are a caregiver you are probably already familiar with the effects of stress. With the upcoming holidays it is almost a sure bet your stress level will go up.
You may start to feel more tired than usual. You may worry more. You may feel like everyone else is piling their stress onto you.
Here are a few things you can do to help lessen your stress level. Even the relatively small things can add up.
1.Keep your expectations in check. You have ...
Tags: Caregivers, caregiving, holiday, aging parents, stress relief
- Home Safety Tips For Caregivers
By: Rebecca Sharp Colmer | - As a family caregiver, it is important to safe-proof your home. Falls are the seventh leading cause of death in persons over the age of 65. There are a variety of reasons for falls, such as falls from ladders or scaffolding, falls from slipping, tumbling or tripping.
It is important to know the hazards and then take the necessary precautions. It is important to constantly be alert.
Here are some general safety tips to help reduce or eliminate hazards in your home.
1.Emergen ...
Tags: caregiver, safety, aging parents, caregiving, eldercare, home hazards, falls
- Help Your Respite Caregiver By Doing These Ten Things
By: Rebecca Sharp Colmer | - If you are a family caregiver there will come a time when you need a break. It usually comes sooner rather than later.
You may only need help for an hour or two or for a day or two. This is when a respite caregiver will step in.
Respite services cover a wide range.
They may include volunteer services or adult day care for the care-receiver. Or, it may even a care-receiver's brief stay in a nursing home or assisted living facility.
They also could inc ...
Tags: Respite Caregiver, Caregiver, Caregiving, Aging Parents
- Five Ways To Improve Caregiver Communications Within The Family
By: Rebecca Sharp Colmer | - Communication goes on in many ways: exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, signals, writing or behavior. It is no surprise that most families develop a special and unique communications style. When we talk to our family members, not only do we search for signs of love, but we also look for signs of disapproval. When families come together for making decisions about the care of their parent, they may need to develop or reframe their communication skills.
Here ...
Tags: communication, caregiver, caregiving, eldercare, aging parents, family dynamics, seniors
- Ten Caregiver Tips For Care Of The Elderly
By: Rebecca Sharp Colmer | - The caregiver role is complex and differs for everyone depending on the needs of the care-receiver.Many times, in the beginning, there may only be a few needs, such as providing transportation or helping with shopping or cooking.
Over time, needs increase, requiring additional services, until the care-receiver is fully dependent on the caregiver.Here are some tips to help you get started:
1.Every caregiver should know as much as possible about the care-receiver.Y ...
Tags: caregiver, caregiving, eldercare, seniors, aging parents, healthcare
- 10 Places To Find Caregiving Help
By: Rebecca Sharp Colmer | - The information in this article will tell you where to search for caregiving assistance for your loved one.
It is not easy being a caregiver. Often in the beginning stage it is natural to think that you can do it all by yourself. As time goes on your caregiving duties will increase.The sooner you get extra help, the better.
Keep in mind it may take some time to find the right combination of services and support for your loved one.
1.Family. The best ...
Tags: caregiving, caregiver, aging parents, eldercare, home health care
- Are You Healthy And Young -- Now Is The Time To Consider Long Term Care Insurance
By: Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson | - In your twenties, thirties or forties and healthy? Now is the time to consider long term care insurance while you can qualify for preferred rates, which is a code word for substantial discounts, due to both your age and your perfect health.
Long term care insurance is just not for the old. How many persons do you read about that have been injured in car or sporting accidents? In many cases these are young people. Who takes care of these young people when they are seriously injured ...
Tags: long term care insurance, healthy, young, parents, accidents, caregiving
- Caregiver Survival Tips - Three Ways To Stay Positive
By: Elaine K. Sanchez | - Madelyn Kubin was recovering from open-heart surgery. She had osteoporosis, macular degeneration, restless leg syndrome, and severe hearing loss. She lived on a farm six miles from a town of 10,000 people in the middle of Kansas, and she had very little money. And then, just a few months after Madelyn's 70th birthday, her husband suffered a debilitating stroke and she became his caregiver.
For the next six years Madelyn maintained her contact with the outside world, and per ...
Tags: caregiving, caregivers, caregiving support, elder care, Letters from Madelyn, Chronicles of a Caregiver, Elaine Sanchez, Elaine K. Sanchez, Caregiver
- How To Stay Positive - Three Tips For Caregivers
By: Elaine K. Sanchez | - Madelyn Kubin was a Kansas farm woman who overpowered her own failing health to care for her husband after he suffered a debilitating stroke. She chronicled her experience through writing letters to her daughter. Madelyn developed a myriad of coping strategies in order to maintain a positive attitude. The following survival tips are illustrated with excerpts from her letters.
Detach Yourself Mentally by Practicing Creative Indifference
The routine of caregivi ...
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- Overpowering The Demands Of Caregiving - Lessons From Madelyn
By: Elaine K. Sanchez | - Madelyn Kubin was a Kansas farm woman who overpowered her own failing health to care for her husband after he suffered a debilitating stroke. She chronicled her experience through writing letters to her daughter. There are many lessons for all caregivers in Madelyns experiences. Here are three, illustrated with excerpts from the book Letters from Madelyn, Chronicles of a Caregiver:
Write a Rant
Writing about your anger, fear, and frustrations can get negative fe ...
Tags: Caregiving, Caregiver, Death and Dying, Stroke Victims, Caregiver Stroke, Family Caregiving,
- Over Fifty? Fall Is Time For Routine Vaccines
By: Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson | - Fall is here and winter is just around the corner. Most of us think about getting our annual flu shots. For those over age fifty, a case of the flu can have serious consequences. If you have not yet been vaccinated against pneumonia, this too is a good idea.
Those over age fifty may also want to speak to their physician and consider being vaccinated for shingles. The Centers for Disease Control approved the vaccine in May of 2006 and recommends it for anyone over age fifty th ...
Tags: Caregiving, families, shingles, vaccinations
- Improving The Safety Of Your Home For Elderly Loved Ones
By: John George | - Everybody get old; it's a simple fact of life that can be hard to face. The truth is that muscles and bones get weaker and the home can slowly become a dangerous place. However, making some minor modifications to keep your loved ones safe is a very easy process.
Improving safety indoors
You can't always prevent falls, but there are many things that you can do to help prevent them. Here are a few ideas:
Clear floors of clutter The majority of falls ...
Tags: caregiving, elderly, home, safety
- Thanks, Mom..! ( Some Reasons Why You Might Want To Get Long Term Care Insurance )
By: Clay Cotton | - How many of us say that we will take care of our parents if they became disabled and could not live alone? Raise your hands! If you're like me, you have told your mom or dad, "I'll take care of you, don't worry. I'll always be there for you!"
Of course, I must point out that I don't own a house, my husband and I constantly move due to being renters, and now I'm my husband's full time caregiver. So it's a moot point. Where would I put my mother? Would I have enough energy to take c ...
Tags: asset-protection, burden, care-givers, caregiver, caregivers, caregiving, elder-care, elderly, elders, family, finances, financial, financial-plan, fi
- Older Adult Substance Abuse: Your Spouse, Your Parent, Yourself
By: Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson | - Anna drinks almost a bottle of vodka a day. She was recently hospitalized for dehydration due to a fall. She has lost ten pounds in the past two months. She lives alone with her dog as her main companion. There is little need to eat when she obtains her daily nutrition through liquid means. I became acquainted with Anna by a call from a family member after adult protective services became involved. There were previously four calls to 911 emergency services for falls most likely related to ...
Tags: older adults, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, caregiving
- My Care Giving Angel
By: Clay Cotton | - My Care Giving Angel..
It's been a few weeks since Cindy started coming over to spend time with Clay - to relieve me of my caregiving duties. She comes at least once a week. What a blessing! The long term care of any individual can be exhausting, at times, so I now call Cindy "my angel""
I still haven't done anything "fun""..yet, but I do take my time with errands now, and sometimes I even take a stroll around the town's square. I also still check in ...
Tags: care-givers, caregiver, caregivers, caregiving, burden, disability, elder-care, long-term-care, respite, sandwich-generation
- Role Reversal - When Parents Resist
By: Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson | - Your parents are getting older. You see things slipping. The house is not as clean as it once was, your mother is increasingly forgetful, your father has lost weight, and you are concerned about their safety when they drive. So as a responsible child you bring up the subject. How do your parents react? They are angry. They feel like you are trying to tell them what to do. Maybe they feel like you want to move them out of their home and place them in a retirement facility.
S ...
Tags: parents, elder care, health care, roles, geriatric care, caregiving
- Know Thyself - The Cardinal Financial Panning Rule?
By: Clay Cotton | - While we often apply the rule to evaluating risk tolerance, it works for all aspects of financial management. Raw numbers mean nothing if you have to go against your established behavior patterns to achieve them.
To put it even more simply, if the success of your retirement, [tag]investment[/tag] or money management plan depends on you becoming a systematic saver, and you've never demonstrated that ability, you're probably dooming yourself to failure.
Psychologists ...
Tags: 401(k), 401-(k), 401k, alzheimers, alzheimers disease, asset protection, assets, burden, caregiving, disabilities, disability, elder-care, estate plan
- I Can't Work And Be At Home!
By: Cynthia Barnett | - Being part of the Sandwich Generation can be challenging. Many of us find ourselves sandwiched between children and grandchildren who need our attention and aging parents who also need care and attention. And many of the people who are sandwiched between the needs of the generations of our families also have a career. I just can't tell you how many people have said, Help! I can't work and be at home!
Many people 50 and over are struggling with the need to earn a living and ...
Tags: retirement, retire, caregiving, sandwich generation, family
- Caregiving Comfort: A Family Caregiver's Portable Support Group
By: Clay Cotton | - A caregiver needs all the support that can be had, but all-too-often a caregiver cannot find time and energy to attend scheduled support groups. Imagine the usefulness of a portable support group you can carry with you anywhere and access whenever you want. That's what we can have in Carol Bursack's touching little book, "Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories".
For over twenty years, Carol Bradley Bursack cared for a neighbor and six elderly family members, ...
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- Caregiving's Costly Burden
By: Clay Cotton | - Hey - If I had known that official government policy toward caring for elderly parents was that their children would have to do it all, well I would have had 10 kids.
While it's said that those in the developing world have numerous children with the hope that some will survive to care for them when they're old, those in developed counties have about two children.
Somehow I guess I thought our so-called developed world had some type of policies for elderly caregiving ...
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- Friends And Family Will Be Tapped For Long Term Care
By: Clay Cotton | - WASHINGTON - More than 1/3 of U.S. residents contacted indicated they would turn to family and friends for long term care, a new survey shows.
That is the feeling, should the situation arise, among 39 percent of the 1,025 adults polled by the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education. However statistics reveal that nearly one in two will enter a nursing facility at some point.
Relatively few interviewees said they plan to rely on insurance OR private savin ...
Tags: long term care, long term care insurance, insurance, caregiving, caregiver, caregivers, social security
- Caregiving - Families Don't Always Play Fair
By: Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson | - In our busy world, caregiving can become a complicated task especially when multiple family members are involved. Who will take responsibility for what tasks? Often the majority of the work is delegated to the family member who has the most available time. Caregivers placed in this position feel that this is not always fair and that their brothers, sisters, or other family members take advantage of them. This resentment creeps into family relationships.
The individual with th ...
Tags: Caregiving, families, caregiver burnout, home care, counseling
- Caregiver Contracts Make Things Clear
By: Clay Cotton | - Caregiving is not the kind of topic that makes for pleasant chit-chat over tea, much like long term care and long term care insurance. Yet these are crucial issues to address boldly with vigor and verve, if you want future years to unfold gracefully.
So often our tendancies to ignore, deny, procrastinate and avoid can leave these issues unaddressed, and when the time for care is upon us (care which will VERY likely be needed, at least for half the population), then we could be le ...
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- Long Term Care Decision Can Take An Emotional Toll On Caregiver
By: Clay Cotton | - It is universally agreed that one of the most difficult decisions a caregiver must make is deciding when it is finally time to choose a long term care facility for a loved one. Accepting that home is no longer enough is tremendously difficult for a caregiver and all concerned. Not only must families handle the grief, heartbreak and guilt of the placement, but they must also decide which type of care facility will be most appropriate for a loved one - plus, how to manage family finances. This per ...
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- Avoid Burnout When Caregiving An Aging Parent
By: Dana Sanders | - When providing care to aging or disabled parents, many caregivers ignore the most important person involved in the caregiving process. "Who?" - you may ask? The answer might surprise you: The Caregiver.
Many times caregivers get so wrapped up in attending to parent's needs, trying to fit quality time with their own family into their schedule, and oftentimes attempting to balance a career, they forget or simply neglect to take some time for their own personal needs.
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Tags: caregiving, eldercare, aging, caregiver, elderly, senior citizen
- Coping With The Emotional Challenges Of Caregiving A Parent
By: Dana Sanders | - Do you know someone acting as a caregiver to an aging or disabled parent, maybe a friend, loved-one, or a co-worker? Are you serving as the role of caregiver yourself? Do the emotional challenges seem impossible to deal with some days, and you just don't know how you can handle anymore?
As a caregiver for my mother, I would like to share my personal experiences and insight on how to successfully cope with the emotional challenges of serving as a caregiver to an aging or disabled p ...
Tags: caregiving, eldercare, aging, caregiver, elderly, senior citizen
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