If you’re in a successful, long-lasting relationship, you know that it requires commitment, compromise, and sacrifice. The happiest relationships are the ones where both parties selflessly take care of each other. This balance shifts, however, if...
Read moreOvercoming Caregiver Isolation and Loneliness
Who could imagine that spending a great deal of time being a caregiver for someone else could also cause you to feel incredibly alone? The hard truth is that caregiving can be extremely isolating, for several reasons: Mental or physical...
Read moreTime Management Tips for Busy Family Caregivers
If today’s to-dos seem like a lot more than you are able to possibly squeeze into 24 short hours, you’re not alone. Family caregivers are often overloaded with daily care tasks: Planning and preparing meals. Shopping and other errands. Planning...
Read moreThe Top Warning Signs of Elderly Mobility Issues & Tips for Prevention
Benjamin Franklin certainly had it right: An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure. When it comes to noticing and addressing elderly mobility issues, prevention is crucial. Falls in older adults lead to 3 million emergency room...
Read moreLiving With COPD: Tips to More Effectively Communicate About Your Diagnosis
It began with those in your inner circle, and it has gradually been spreading outward to good friends and acquaintances. Revealing that you are living with a COPD diagnosis and knowing how to answer the various questions that arise about it may...
Read moreFamily Caregiver Tips to Help a Loved One Navigate a New Diagnosis
It may have been presumed, or perhaps broadsided you out of the blue. Mom has just received the official diagnosis for a progressive disease that’s going to make independent life challenging. While there are lots of unknowns, one thing is for...
Read moreLearn the Facts About Hospice Care at Home
If you knew that a much better quality of life could be achieved for a loved one, you would not think twice about exploring that option. Yet one of the most beneficial types of care – hospice care at home – is one that family members shy away...
Read moreHow to Overcome One of the Top Challenges of Being a Caregiver: Dread
What are your first thoughts when you wake up in the morning? Are you looking forward to what your day will bring, or would you rather crawl back beneath the covers and stay there? If you are experiencing more dread than delight as you think...
Read moreThe Shift in Taking Care of Aging Parents Post-Pandemic
If there’s one particular positive after-effect of the pandemic, it’s the awareness generated for the plight of family caregivers. Managing work and home life has long been a tremendous challenge for those taking care of aging parents. As Lindsay...
Read moreHow to Let Go of Caregiver Guilt
Family caregivers give a great deal of themselves to care for their loved ones, often surrendering their own individual desires and needs during the process. It seems natural to assume then that caregivers would feel good about themselves, rich...
Read moreOvercoming This Challenging Dementia Behavior: Refusal to Change Clothes
Being a caregiver for someone with Alzheimer’s disease or any other form of dementia requires creativity, patience, and empathy, the ability to step outside of your personal reasoning and logic and understand just why a particular behavior is...
Read moreHow to Best Manage Disinhibited Behaviors for Seniors with Alzheimer’s
Disbelief. Shame. Awkwardness. Discomfort. All of these feelings can cycle through a family caregiver’s heart when a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease showcases disinhibited behaviors, such as: Tactless or rude comments Inappropriate sexual...
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