When I began my career as an activity director, little did I know that taking that one extra step...
Category: Caring for a Client
To Ease the Grief, I Play an Anthem
Whenever I hear Bing Crosby sing “Toora Loora Loora,” I feel a mix of grief and happiness. The...
8 Guidelines for Improved Communication Skills: A New CNA’s Guide
By developing your communication skills, you would also achieve all of the following: Develop a...
#WeAllCare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAfEvHQ5ZNc Three amazing women share their caregiving stories....
Unlocked And Loaded: Families Confront Dementia And Guns
With a bullet in her gut, her voice choked with pain, Dee Hill pleaded with the 911 dispatcher for...
7 Questions New Caregivers Won’t Ask, but Should
Becoming a new professional caregiver, whether you're taking care of an elderly parent, an adopted...
7 Reasons Why We Need More Caregivers
There’s a rapidly growing shortage of paid and unpaid caregivers and nurses, which if left...
What happens when an algorithm cuts your health care
For most of her life, Tammy Dobbs, who has cerebral palsy, relied on her family in Missouri for...
Everything You Need to Know About Writing the Perfect Caregiver Cover Letter
The caregiver career path is unlike any other career path out there. There’s a heavy emphasis on...
Nursing Home Workers Share Explicit Photos of Residents on Snapchat
Nursing home workers across the country are posting embarrassing and dehumanizing photos of...
The Reason
You lost your reason this morning. You had known it was coming. For three days now, she hadn’t...
Out of Time
I am used to the cuckoo’s-nest world of locked memory-care units, to looping, opaque...
Caregiver Resume Fails: 15 Things to Never Include in Your Resume
Caregiving professionals are ought to inspire more trust than the average employee, as every...
How to Write a Caregiver Resume to Secure Your Next Job Interview
Surprisingly to some, the caregiver industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the...
Majority of Hospice Workers Don’t Have End-of-life Wishes Themselves
There are approximately 6,100 hospices nationwide that provide care for about 1.6 million patients...
The dangerous topic of appreciation
Does the person who you caregive for appreciate what you do? It's a dangerous question to ask,...
What do you miss most about your “old life”?
Caregiving changes your life forever. Even when caregiving ends, we've been transformed. Here's...
Facing the challenges of long-distance caregiving
When you suddenly find yourself in a long-distance caregiving situation, you realize how much...
Moving In with Mom
My 100-year-old mom was heading for the bathroom, and that meant I was headed there too. Until...
The Last Human Job
An emerging consensus suggests that two characteristics make humans distinct from machines: care...
Raising the Bar and Unseating Bias
Helen Adeosun just raised $1.5 million dollars for her startup, CareAcademy.com*. As a black...
Down The Rabbit Hole Into Caregiverland
It’s a complete 180 learning curve going from journalist / author / daughter to caregiver / nurse...
Why Veterans Make Exceptional Caregivers
A great caregiver can come from almost any background. But when you’ve spent twenty years in home...
How did we become professional caregivers?
A few weeks ago we were talking about how we became caregivers on the Facebook page. I was...