With these safety tips for home health care workers, you can provide the best experience for your loved ones or residents.
Category: Caregiver Stories
Caregivers tell their story in their own words: the good, the bad, the complicated.
Will They See Me as a Son, a Daughter or a Stranger?
Early on, they wrote me a letter encouraging me to reconsider my decision to become a man. The...
6 Atypical COVID Symptoms to Watch for in Older Adults
If you believe you or your loved ones have experienced these symptoms after being in a high-risk environment or around a recently-diagnosed individual, get tested right away and self-quarantine until you receive your results.
Police Violence Against Black Disabled People Can’t Be Ignored Anymore
Deborah Danner was a 66-year-old Black woman with schizophrenia. In 2016, an NYPD officer shot...
Police Are the First to Respond to Mental Health Crises. They Shouldn’t Be
Last year, the mental health nonprofit Treatment Advocacy Center found that one in three people...
Home Modifications for the Visually Impaired or Blind – The Complete Guide
If you are visually impaired or blind (or caring for someone who is), modifying your house to fit...
Caregiver — Don’t Cry Momma “Gone With The Wind”
It was a late October morning, 2005, and there was a crisp chill in the air. Couldn't decide if I...
How we dealt with uncertainty and a virus
How we dealt with uncertainty, And a virus in our life, For fifteen years. And emerged as...
How to Deal with a Career Gap Due to Caregiving
No one expects that at some point in your life you’ll have to pause your career to take care of...
As Coronavirus Rages On, How to (Safely) Help Elderly People
How can an older person—or a person with an underlying condition that makes them more susceptible...
Can’t stop the tears
This is a lyric I wrote when Rick was in a nursing home for several months.. We had this...
7 Photographers on Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and Heartbreaking Memory Loss
While making Breathers, a series of photographs of looming Pacific Northwest trees as metaphors...
Similes Replacing Smiles…for Now
Dementia is like a thief, Victims are robbed, that is true Like a ship that strikes the reef, And...
Access to public toilets is a social justice issue
One of the easiest ways to keep marginalized people at home is to prevent them from accessing...
Canadians, especially older adults and their caregivers, struggle through fragmented and frustrating systems. What they deserve is structured help.
A woman caring for her older mother is told she cannot make a direct application to a specialized...
Giving Care to Oneself and Another
There is a song we often sing in my community ‘Be gentle with yourself, my friend, my friend/ Be...
Invisible patients: Caregivers need support too in Canada’s health-care system
Nervous, afraid and distressed — this is how many Canadians say they feel about the future health...
Who Cares
Nurses must meet the complex and diverse needs of the people they care for—washing, dressing, meal...
What I never knew about my mother
Soon we will mark the five year anniversary of my mother’s death. Soon it will be five years since...
Knowing art therapy but not knowing art therapy
My sketches were always faint lines in pencil. I loved sketching trees in a wide diversity of...
Death by Dementia
Some deaths Are like the slamming of a door. Sudden. Complete. You are either On one side of the...
The cartoonist drawing comics about his mother’s Alzheimer’s
When Ted Rall’s mother started showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, it meant that Rall, who is...
Empty space
Moving out of a home and seeing that empty space where you used to always has a sad, beautiful...
In med school, a mission found me. But it will never be just a job — cancer and grief brought me to it
A young widow who lost her husband to cancer nearly drowned in grief and medical debt. Now Fumiko...