"For most older Americans, care will come from unpaid family members or friends, who contributed...
Category: Long Term Caregiving
Many people require care for decades or an entire lifetime. When caregiving is a long-term situation it needs to be sustainable for everyone involved. Long term caregivers share their struggles, their victories, and how they manage to provide care over decades without sacrificing having a life of their own.
The Magic of the Granny Flat
Since around 2010, the city has been encouraging the development of such accessory dwelling units,...
What Happens when People with Dementia Commit Crimes?
"Rothman was charged with health-care fraud and health-care fraud conspiracy. He faced up to 20...
Love in the age of sickle cell disease
"There are not yet universal standards for genetic testing, but a narrow consensus has emerged...
For The First Time, Traditional Medicare Will Pay To Support Family Caregivers
"for the first time, Medicare will pay doctors and other providers to deliver critical support to...
Children With Complex Medical Needs Belong at Home
Children belong at home with their families. For children with complex medical needs, this is...
The Vanishing Family
Susan, the third-born, volunteered to take care of Christy full time, and Jenny, the eighth,...
Being a Human Being
"Many of us are programmed to take action. We want to fix. We want to solve. And we take pride in...
States Try Easing the Burden of Long-Term Care’s High Cost
It’s a retirement concern few of us want to face: At some point, four out of five older Americans...
An Excellent View of Oblivion
In art, we edit the narrative details to maintain credibility. In life, the universe never doubts...
‘I knew the terror of lost time’: how my father’s dementia echoed my own alcoholism
In our different ways, my father and I were both suffering from diseases of forgetfulness. Though...
My father had dementia and I was his caregiver. Here’s what I wish I had known
In 2007, I was suddenly plunged into the role of caregiver for my then 75-year-old father, who had...
Oral Health And Memory Disorders: A Guide For Caregivers
Taking care of someone with a memory disorder is challenging. There is a lot to keep track of —...
A Field Guide to the Abeyance of Loss
Claudia cannot choose the path her life is taking. Neuromyelitis optica directs her, making life...
To Get Help for Sick Kids, Mothers Wrote to Washington
Nearly a hundred years ago, mothers were already sending mail to Washington, DC, to advocate for...
5 Women On the Realities of Caregiving for a Sick Partner
When someone else gets sick like that—someone you love—it can mean a complete overhaul of what...
How to Embalm Yourself Before You’re Dead
Since Mother’s death, I’ve been mothering Dad the way I’ve always wanted to be mothered. I learned...
Older spouses struggle to care for loved ones with dementia
It's been nearly four years since Russ Kellogg's wife, Frances, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's...
Provincial funding programs should allow immediate family to be paid caregivers
Vancouver resident Evan Brunelle was approved for WorkSafeBC's Self Managed Personal Care (SMPC)...
Why Siblings Are The Forgotten Caregivers
When Katie MacDonald bought a new home in Brantford, Ont., this past spring, one of her main...
Frontotemporal dementia: ‘I don’t ever want to be looked at by John as a caregiver, I want him to see me as his partner’
Cindy McCaffery provides support to her husband John who was diagnosed with frontotemporal...
The Alzheimer’s Crisis in Indian Country
Alzheimer’s is on the rise across all Americans over 65, with one in nine people in that age...
The Ultimate Guide to Purée
We ate a mostly pureed diet for almost two years. Yes, I said we, because I ate what Grandma ate....
How to Get Nurses Back in Homes Supporting Disabled Children
Finding nurses to care for medically fragile children at home has historically been difficult. But...