For the past decade, [Victoria] Levack has lived, reluctantly, at the Arborstone Enhanced Care...
Category: Caring for a Grandchild
The Story Of Britney Spears Is A Story Of Disability Rights
A conservatorship — often called a guardianship — puts a court-mandated guardian in charge of...
Making the Mental Load Visible
Too often we compartmentalize our caregiving — childcare, aged care, sick care, disabled care. Yet...
This Food Delivery Worker Won’t Let Coronavirus Get in Her Way
In the daytime, she’s taking care of her daughter, De’Onna, 20, who has cerebral palsy. At night,...
Autistic New Yorkers Share Their Stim-Toy Stories With ‘Aftereffect’
After an autistic man's stim toy was mistaken for a gun, with tragic results, NPR's Aftereffects...
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...
New Report Discovers That the Media Normalizes the Murders of People with Disabilities
Read any news report, and you’ll notice people who murder disabled relatives often claim...
Meet Keely
I am a Polynesian woman, wife, mother & grandmother(Tutu) who is now a transplant of the...