One of the easiest ways to keep marginalized people at home is to prevent them from accessing...
Category: Caregiver Stories
Caregivers tell their story in their own words: the good, the bad, the complicated.
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...
Photo Essay: Three States. Three Caregivers.
If you care for a parent or loved one, you almost certainly interact with doctors, nurses and...
Unsung Heroes: Victor from Maintenance
Victor is one of Houselink’s maintenance workers — officially, he and two other workers are...
What Should We Do about Our Aging Prison Population?
Aging inmates require increasing levels of care, and also carry a significant cost to the prison...
Growing Up Ethan: How do you find independence when you’re coming of age with autism?
In the fall of 2006, when I reached out to the Floquet-McGovern family as part of a photography...
Daughter care vacations need to become a thing
Every Woman Who's Caring for Aging Parents Deserves a Break from Reality When my brother...
A teacher ran out of sick days to stay with his cancer-stricken daughter, so his colleagues donated 100 days
David Green is a history teacher and a father to a 16-month-old girl who was diagnosed with...
10 Rules We Can Learn From Aging Parents Now
We watch elderly parents make choices we swear we would NEVER do. Yet so many of our aging loved...
Caregiving: A Nascent Social Revolution
Mention the word “caregiver” and what is the first thought that comes to mind? Older? Exceptional?...
Why Are Family Caregiving Questions Missing From The 2020 Census?
As our nation awaits for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the Trump administration can add...
One month — no schedule, no internet, no electricity
Annabelle moved home for the last few weeks before her mother died of cancer. She focused on the...
There for him
His independence taken by stroke; he fights back and I am there for him. Near, aware,...
The Surviving Spouse’s Guide to Surviving a Hallmark Holiday
This will be my second Valentine’s Day without Tim, my love of 12 years. Red jelly hearts cling to...
Losing my dad to dementia
https://youtu.be/ICo3lpQS2ck Ken jr wanted to share this video of him and his dad with our...