Cindy McCaffery provides support to her husband John who was diagnosed with frontotemporal...
Category: Finding Caregiver Support
Millions worse off if PIP and disability benefits are means-tested
Millions of Britons unable to manage without disability benefits could see their support slashed...
How to do the impossible
So many people in the groups are facing caregiving situations where it's impossible for them to do...
Someone to talk to
At The Caregiver Space we work really hard to support each other. We have our online support...
The Caregivers
A few years into the illness, Janie could sense it worsening. Buzz, who had never yelled at her,...
“I need you to just be there. I need you to hold my story.”
In September 2020, I watched from afar as Andrew and his wife, Rachel, announced that their infant...
How State and Local Laws Protect Family Caregivers from Discrimination at Work
Currently, about 41 million Americans provide care to an adult with limitations in daily...
Making the Mental Load Visible
Too often we compartmentalize our caregiving — childcare, aged care, sick care, disabled care. Yet...
We Needed More Significant Others
After multiple biopsies over many weeks (Scott said he felt as if he were an Ikea desk being...
Caregiver Help Lines
Do you want a hotline to call so you can have someone to talk you through your caregiving...
When willpower isn’t enough
Willpower is overrated. When people talk about changing their behavior, they often place a lot of...
Why Does the Richest Country in the World Rely on Volunteers for Emergency Healthcare?
The call was for a 64-year-old woman with a cough and inability to walk. But she did not appear to...
On Alternative Forms of Communal Care and Expanded Kinship Circles
We need not look far to find cultures where caring kinships have been arranged differently....
Listen, Open Up, Connect: A Mental Health Expert’s Advice On Living Through A Crisis
Terri Cheney did not expect she would be weathering the pandemic so well. The author of Modern...
When mental illness bears down, respite centres can uplift
As a person with the mental illness disability of schizoaffective disorder, I am quite familiar...
What I wish I’d known
My 21-month caregiving ended a couple of months ago when my mother passed away. Since that time, I...
How to Talk to a Friend Whose Posts Have You Worried
Even before the coronavirus pandemic began, a lot of people were talking more honestly about their...
Caring for the carers
Schulz and four colleagues reviewed the research on family caregiving for the disabled and ill...
How to Set Pandemic Boundaries for Relatives
While this article is written for people who've taken on supporting friends and family because of...
But I meant well!
One of the things I hear all the time is that people's friends and family just don't understand...
The Four States of Distress: how to comfort someone when something bad happens to them
When a friend or loved one has something bad happen to them, what should you do to help them feel...
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at
I picked up Kelly McGonigal's The Upside of Stress assuming I would skim it for a few interesting...
Clocking In: ‘Would You Change My Mother’s Diaper for $10 an Hour?’
On a Tuesday in April, Michelle Walton woke up in Plantation, Florida, at eight. Her back hurt....
Be a Friend to the Elderly, Get Paid
Ricardo Figueroa, 31, isn’t a family member or caretaker or even a neighbor. He’s a paid companion...