Home Care for a Dementia-Afflicted Loved One
Caring for an aging loved one is difficult enough when the only issues they are facing are physical challenges such as frailty or sickness. When those issues …
Topic: Caregiving
Angels and Stones When Caregiving – Who is Really Helping You?
I keep a small poster in my office. It reads, “We are all just angels with one wing. We fly by holding onto each other.” It has made me think about …
Caregiving, 10 Steps to Greater Balance
Caregiving pulls at my energy, emotions and ability to think. I have never felt a greater need to be aware of taking care of myself. The calendar is full of …
Giving Care Means Taking Care
Care is defined as: the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something. This seems obvious but …
The High Road of Caregiving
Learning to take the high road as a caregiver can be difficult. You can set out with the best intentions to be a compassionate, caring helper. Yet, when the …
5 Caregiving Lessons I Learned From My Mother
I am back from a 4 month leave-of-absence for caregiving. I left when my 94 year old mother fell in January and broke her hip. I thought she would, as usual, …
Ability Over Disability
Recently there has been a growing amount of interest in issues related to age-related disabilities. My work with Jewish Sacred Aging has begun to look at some …
Tips for Having a Hospice Conversation
Misconceptions about Hospice Hospice. Just that one, simple word can cause people to ‘head for the hills.’ This one word can drive fear into people’s …
Caregivers Must Dump New Year’s Resolutions
Just Live and Learn “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi The calendar has flipped to …
Go with The Flow and Embrace “Maybe” During the Holidays
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow …