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Category: Caregiving 101
Essential information for caregivers on a wide range of topics.
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...
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...
In ‘Corsicana,’ Will Arbery Puts Art, Family and Down Syndrome Onstage
Arbery, who grew up in Dallas with seven sisters in a conservative Catholic milieu similar to that...
And So on and So Forth
The woman is my mother, who is 81 and losing her memory, the past dissolving each day like so many...
I’m a working mom and my 4-year-old son’s full-time medical caregiver. Here’s what life is like
As a full-time working mom and a full-time medical caregiver to my 4-year-old son, I have many...
‘It is all about raising the profile of carers’
It was early evening, and Rebekah Zammett was about to leave her north Oxfordshire home to work a...
New York Let Residences for Kids With Serious Mental Health Problems Vanish. Desperate Families Call the Cops Instead.
Taylor searched desperately for help, signing Amari up for therapy and putting her on waitlists...
We undervalue caregivers because we don’t value the people who need care
We undervalue both caregivers and care providers because we don’t value the people who need care....
Sabrina’s Parents Love Her. But the Meltdowns Are Too Much.
Sabrina, who was given a diagnosis of autism coupled with a rare genetic disorder, has exhibited...
In some families, medical assistance in dying is anything but a peaceful ending
Quinn empathized with her mother, who feared both a rapid and slow decline. Eva was living in a...
Sizing Up the Decisions of Older Adults
Adult Protective Services agencies in every state receive reports of possible neglect,...