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Caregiver Guilt and Finding Balance
How do you find the balance? Is there a balance? Am I doing the right thing? Should I be doing more? These are important questions for a caregiver. They can dominate a caregiver’s daily thoughts. The experts all talk about balance. How do we find the balance when we are so busy doing the things that upset the balance? Here is the key: there is no magic answer. You may be searching for an answer that is elusive and forever changing.
Summer Travel Plans for Caregivers
Taking a successful vacation when you are a caregiver requires planning and coordination. Here is some information and questions to consider when planning your time away from home. Vacationing With Your Loved One Is the destination accessible for my loved one’s abilities? Ensure that stairs are kept to a limit that is acceptable and have railings. Are doorways wide enough for a wheelchair or walker? Will the bathroom accommodate your routine? Are the activities within my loved one’s capabilities?
Howie Mandel Talks Cholesterol... (No Seriously)
To Celebrate our 23rd anniversary (next week,) we have added a Caregiver Vodcast to our network of caregiver support programming, which includes the weekly newsletters, podcasts, custom publishing, Caregiver Thought Leader Communiques, Caregiver Friendly Awards, Today’s Caregiver magazine, caregiver books, and the Fearless Caregiver Conferences.
Stroke and Sleep what you MUST know
Join us as we celebrate Fearless Caregivers sharing personal stories as we care for our loved ones. Read this week’s Fearless Caregiver Profile and feel free to as well, so we can learn from and share with our fellow caregivers. JAIMIE SQUICCIARINI How did you become the caregiver for your loved one? My grandfather has dementia, and had a bout with congestive heart failure. He could no longer care for himself. As I am not married or have children, I was the obvious choice.
When Caregiving is Not Enough
When Caregiving is Not Enough - Finding Good Homecare Home health care, also known as domicilary care, is care provided in one’s own place of residence. This can include skilled nursing services, speech-language pathology, physical and occupational therapy, home health aide services, as well as medical social services and the provision of durable medical equipment such as wheelchairs or walkers for use in-home when ordered by a licensed physician.
Pinkies Up for Caregivers
Remembering Mimi and Learning How to Balance Life Sometimes we can look to our past to learn how to find the balance we seek in our present lives. Our memories should be treasured and also viewed as shaping and touching our lives today. Mimi was my great-grandmother. She lived with my family until I was in the third grade. Mimi would get me off the bus from kindergarten and prepare my lunch for me. She would sit with me in the big corner chair and watch the Walton's and Lawrence Welk.
Caregiver Guilt and Finding Balance
Lord make me like a mighty oak Roots curling into the earth Strong and steady That my Love might lean upon me And rest Lord make me like a mighty oak Flexible enough to sway in the wind Rocking gently That my Love might rock with me And be comforted Lord make me like a mighty oak Speaking as the winds blow through Whispering softly That my Love might listen And be soothed Lord make me like a mighty oak Facing even the fiercest storm Standing Tall That my Love might take shelter And draw...
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