Gerontologists and psychology of aging experts say that “aging well” in your 60s and 70s is about...
Category: The Caregiver’s Toolbox
Caregivers share the essential knowledge, tips, and tricks that make their lives easier.
The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America’s elderly
Some older adults have diligently prepared for their future. They purchased long-term care...
Children With Disabilities Need Sex Ed Too
Currently, only three states in the country explicitly include special ed students in their sex-ed...
Costa Ricans Live Longer Than Us. What’s the Secret?
Even in countries with robust universal health care, public health is usually an add-on; the vast...
Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why.
This year, the federal government ordered hospitals to begin publishing a prized secret: a...
A Mother’s Steely Portraits of Her Daughter’s Life with Down Syndrome
For as long as Grevenitis can remember, being in public with Lulu has brought about a less welcome...
What I’ve Learned Over a Lifetime of Caring for the Dying
Some of the hardest conversations I have in my work involve telling families managing the...
A Marriage Stressed by Obsessions and Compulsions
As soon as we learned a new baby was on the way, Mike’s anxiety became more than an occasional...
We can’t drug our way out of despair over Alzheimer’s
For over a century, people living with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers have been caught...
America isn’t taking care of caregivers
Dementia had not robbed Lillian of her fiercely independent spirit, but it had made her verbally...
A moment that changed me: my mother died – and I became my brother’s legal guardian
It was in Stansted airport’s Pink Elephant car park that I realised all the adults were going...
‘You’d walk out if your husband hit you – you can’t when it’s your child’
Most parents never have to worry about being attacked by a violent child, but if it happens, they...
My Mother, Before She Drank
My older sister and I eventually decided to involve our aunt to help figure out a way to save her....
The Autism Mom: Why Is She Like That?
The Autism Mom is an infamous villain in the autistic community. We are outraged that she wants to...
He Couldn’t Remember That We Broke Up
To break up with someone is to lose the imagined future you would create together, but you would...
COVID-19 and Caregiving: The Silent Struggle of Women Caregivers at the Front Lines
Caregiving will forever have a new outlook following the ongoing pandemic. From unpaid caregiving...
Making Your Workplace Safe for Grief
Grief doesn’t just come with sadness and loss. Grief can also come fully-loaded with guilt, anger,...
Care is Infrastructure and We Must Compensate Caregivers Accordingly
Donald was proud of his caregiving role. His mom had raised him and his siblings on her own, while...
How Much Must I Give Up for My Schizophrenic Brother?
One of my brothers is moderately schizophrenic; he does well on his medication but is increasingly...
Benefits and disability: ‘I’ll never cohabit again, to protect myself’
Benefits exist to support people in times of need. But for some disabled people, household...
What happened when a ‘wildly irrational’ algorithm made crucial healthcare decisions
Because of his cerebral palsy, the 40-year-old, who works at an environmental engineering firm and...
How One Rural Town Without a Pharmacy Is Crowdsourcing to Get Meds
The building that once housed the last drugstore in this town of fewer than 600 is now a barbecue...
Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Is a Disability Rights Issue That Deserves More Attention
Under conservatorship, disabled adults face restrictions on a wide variety of rights: Where they...
The Caregiving Crisis Didn’t Start with COVID-19—It Won’t End With Biden’s $400 Billion Plan
On March 31, 2021, Biden proposed a $2 trillion American Jobs Plan—$400 billion of which would be...