Caregivers are one of the most socially isolated groups in the United States. According to studies...
Category: Finding Caregiver Support
To Fight Coronavirus, U.K. Asked for Some Volunteers. It Got an Army.
When the government appealed recently for 250,000 people to help the National Health Service, more...
What to Do When Everyone Needs Support but You’re Only One Person
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of people need a lot of interpersonal support. A year...
Delivering Food To Seniors Is Only Half The Battle, The Need For Help Is Overwhelming
Receiving phone calls from elderly clients who just want to talk is not unusual for...
What My Mom (And HIV) Taught Me About Caregiving
You don’t know what you’re really made of until you have to take care of someone you love while...
How to get siblings to step up and help
So often the duties of caregiving fall on a single family member, even when there are other people...
Familism is Making our Latinx Caregivers Sick
The tradition of keeping everything in the family is an amiable labor of love, but it is making...
Compassion Isn’t Enough For Family Caregivers. They Need Training Too
We demand training and minimum staffing levels for aides at nursing homes, where fewer than...
Recovering from the trauma of care
Dr. James Gordon can attest that anyone who works in healthcare comes to work with many...
Is There a Medical Cure for Loneliness?
Every day it seems scientists discover more ways in which loneliness can attack our bodies and...
Dodging Those “You Should” Statements
I’ve cared for three generations of family members, my mother, my twin grandchildren, and my...
The Opportunity to Pause: Leaning into a Life Interrupted while Caregiving
Do a simple search and you will come up with a plethora of articles, books, and podcasts on the...
Are we supporting military caregivers?
Can you be grateful while demanding more? Is it possible to admire and acknowledge the dedication...
No one knows WTF caregiving is
I hate when people ask me what I do. You know what I mean, when someone at a party turns to you...
Knowing art therapy but not knowing art therapy
My sketches were always faint lines in pencil. I loved sketching trees in a wide diversity of...
The cartoonist drawing comics about his mother’s Alzheimer’s
When Ted Rall’s mother started showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, it meant that Rall, who is...
When New Yorkers Report A Mental Health Crisis, Who Should Respond?
Local headlines in recent years have highlighted how a 911 call for assistance with someone...
A New Wave of Caregivers: Men
According to Jean Accius of AARP, these once invisible men are starting to “come out” publicly....
I Don’t Want to Be Your Caregiver, I Want to Be Your Wife
I'm a huge fan of Esther Perel's podcast, Where Should We Begin? Almost two years ago her husband...
Gear shifting: busting BS bromides
As a caregiver there were several of these Pablumesque pieces of supposed advice, which caused me...
The Unique Challenges of the Male Caregiver
The traditional idea of a caregiver is a woman, most often someone caring for a husband or father,...
Why Is It So Difficult to Ask for and/or Accept Help as Caregivers?
Once in the throes of caregiving, it is easy to get lost in the mire of all the moving parts. It...
What Causes Caregiver Depression?
When a loved one falls ill or get injured, it's never easy for anyone. It's especially difficult...
Caring for the caregiver: Raising children with a disability or chronic disease
Amy Illingworth’s world was turned upside down when her two-year-old daughter, Victoria, was...