Family caregiving is commonly viewed as an act of love. So much so that the phrase "caring for a...
Category: Caregiving 101
Essential information for caregivers on a wide range of topics.
Deinstitutionalization is one of our biggest public policy failures. Here’s how we can reverse it.
The policy began in the 1960s with the closure of psychiatric hospital beds — it was to be the...
The crushing financial penalties for marriage in your later years — courtesy of Uncle Sam
A devastating new critique in the Washington University Law Review has spelled out how federal law...
‘A Last Act of Intimate Kindness’
I am the only family member with whom Jay maintained contact for the last three decades. Over that...
This group’s wiped out $6.7 billion in medical debt, and it’s just getting started
After helping Occupy Wall Street activists buy debt for a few years, Antico and Ashton launched...
The Mental Load of Being a Sandwich Generation Caregiver
Writer and musician Tanuja Desai-Hidier lives in a multigenerational home in Maine with her aging...
Widow’s Peak
She said she had something to tell me but that she was afraid. I reached for her trembling hand,...
A Brief Guide to Consenting with a Nonverbal Partner
Consent is extremely important and vital to all aspects of dating, relationships, sex and just...
Care Tactics
While the press applauds the tech sector’s forward-thinking and sensitivity to the needs of...
Sex and disability
Scarleteen has a fantastic collection of articles on sex and disability. While I typically only...
How to Talk About Disability With A Disabled Partner When You’re a Nondisabled Person
New relationships - whether romantic, sexual, or both - are almost always exciting, no matter who...
We need to address society’s unrealistic view of caregivers
Who cares? When picturing a caregiver, the person who comes to mind is almost invariably female....
His PTSD, and My Struggle to Live With It
That attack marked the beginning of our struggle to navigate a relationship transformed by trauma....
How to do the impossible
So many people in the groups are facing caregiving situations where it's impossible for them to do...
Jobs Aplenty, but a Shortage of Care Keeps Many Women From Benefiting
A dearth of child care and elder care choices is causing many women to reorganize their working...
The Underground Economy of Unpaid Care
At the time, my mom was living in Bellingham, Washington, two years into providing unpaid live-in...
How Talking to the Dead Dislodged Some of My Sorrow
I began leaving voice-mail messages for my mother about a month after she died. It was February...
Sex after death
After my husband, Fernando, had been dead for about two years, I decided to fill out a profile on...
A simple loss
It doesn't rhyme with purpose But that's what it is Or inspiration But that, too You've lost it....
Someone to talk to
At The Caregiver Space we work really hard to support each other. We have our online support...
When I Have Dementia
“I hope you’ll still laugh at my jokes when I have dementia,” I said to my husband Ryan on an...
The philosophy of selfhood became real when my mother got dementia
At first, my mother, the poet Anne Atik, had seemed just ordinarily confused. Then, very...
Still Life
The doctor told Ann that John had severely damaged his spinal cord and was paralyzed from his neck...
Tethered to a ventilator for most of his life, how Ryan Lythall found his voice
His story? When Lythall was six-months-old, his mother, Irene, rushed him to CHEO where he had an...