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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 Day His Journal Went Blank
Almost five years ago, when my father was 62, he learned he had Alzheimer’s disease. Over this...
What Losing My Disabled Mom Taught Me About Ableism
If I’ve learned anything in the five years since my mom died, it’s that grief is exceedingly...
The Teacher Who Never Spoke
Duane was born healthy, as far as anyone could tell, but when he was three months old he was...
Who’s Actually Running Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes?
Nearly 100 of Ontario’s embattled care homes are run by third-party operators—a management...
The Pandemic Offers a Chance to Reimagine Caregiving
Our current conversation about caregiving, driven by school shutdowns, Covid outbreaks in nursing...
My aunt stole my mother’s Social Security, and persuaded my elderly father to sign over power of attorney
Dear Moneyist, My mother’s sister is using my mother’s Social Security Number to avoid having to...
Caring in Viral Times
Like her mother, who had worked as a nurse in a factory, my mother found her calling in caring for...
Moving Forward After Caregiving Ends
In November of 2020, my beloved husband died. His death brought 23 years of caregiving to an end....
Lisa Raitt on taking care of her husband as he struggles with young-onset Alzheimer’s
In the early hours of the morning, Bruce Wood will wake up next to his wife, former Conservative...
Why autism training for police isn’t enough
As a police officer and parent, Thompson knows all too well how badly interactions between...
A Long-Term Tragedy
Cathy Parkes never intended to put her father, Paul Parkes, in a long-term-care home. When Cathy...
The Promise That Tested My Parents Until the End
When I was still young enough to pay attention to the things my mother and father said, I would...
We need a queer and trans revolution in care for older adults
I’ve spent the past decade and a half feeling afraid of where I might end up living when I get...
A Case For Frequent Flyers
Over a period of 14 years of caring for my son, we had moved twice; three provinces, three unique...
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....
How I met my mother: dementia brought back her true self
My father’s father talked to everyone, including the figurines on the sideboard, and he sometimes...
‘I am mine’: This is what Alzheimer’s is like at 41
Four years ago, Jo was diagnosed with dominantly inherited Alzheimer’s disease, an extremely rare...
How my mother and I became Chinese propaganda
As A.L.S. gradually paralyzed her, while leaving her intellect intact, our years were filled with...
Would you want a robot to be your relative’s carer?
Companion robots have been trialled in care homes in the UK and Japan, but it is more generally...
When mental illness bears down, respite centres can uplift
As a person with the mental illness disability of schizoaffective disorder, I am quite familiar...
Why Black Aging Matters, Too
Old. Chronically ill. Black. People who fit this description are more likely to die from COVID-19...
Caring for the carers
Schulz and four colleagues reviewed the research on family caregiving for the disabled and ill...