by External Article | Aug 15, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Millennial Generation |
For my whole life I have lived in a family where transparency about my mother and her illness was elusive to us all. We’ve all managed to say so much about so little over the years–my mother has struggled with mental health issues her whole life, but we... 
by Harriet Hodgson | Aug 13, 2019 | Caring for a Romantic Partner |
In 2013 the connection between my husband’s Dacron descending aorta and his real aorta failed. John was bleeding to death. Surgeons operated on him three times in a desperate attempt to staunch blood loss. During the last operation—13 hours and four surgeons—he... 
by External Article | Feb 13, 2019 | Care Work Library, Finding Caregiver Support |
I think we can all relate to how good it can feel to vent…and the ways it can go wrong when someone tries to solve our problems or thinks we’re angry at them. This article has some nice guidelines for getting catharsis without accidentally stirring up... 
by External Article | Jan 28, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Burnout, Wellness |
I was talking with Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychologist at Northeastern University. Right at the end of the hour-long interview, she tossed out this suggestion: “You could increase your emotional granularity.” “Go learn more emotion words and emotion... 
by Guest Author | Dec 11, 2018 | Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Parent, Millennial Generation |
I will start this off like an AA meeting. Hello, my name is Raven and I became a caregiver in May. I remember waking up that Mother’s Day morning feeling fantastic, I put on this cute high low hobo dress with a wide brim floppy hat and I walked to work. Before... 
by Guest Author | Oct 6, 2018 | Caregiver Burnout, Caring for a Parent, Long Term Caregiving |
Dear PARENTAL CAREGIVER ❤️ My mom had a “moderate to massive” heart attack. I spent 6 years taking care of her day and night, feeding her, bathing her, checking her blood glucose, pouring her meds, arranging her ongoing medical appointments with 10 specialists,... 
by Guest Author | Apr 19, 2018 | Caregiving 101 |
Denial: In the beginning, you start to notice things being a little off. This is a difficult stage because only someone close to the individual will pick on these oddities. Sometimes, this goes on for quite some time before someone other than you can start to... 
by External Article | Aug 28, 2017 | After Caregiving, Care Work Library, Caring for a Sibling, Grief, Occasional Caregiving |
My older brother, Bill, had lit himself on fire in front of the Veteran’s Hospital where he was being treated for a damaged knee sustained when parachuting in Panama during our “War on Drugs.” He was also being treated for alcoholism, and diagnosed with PTSD. For... 
by Guest Author | Aug 15, 2017 | Caregiver News |
WASHINGTON, JUly 31, 2017 – Meltdowns are natural occurrences in life. Everyone experience it, from children to teenagers, up to adults. Unfortunately, meltdowns among elderlies are the hardest to handle. Mood swings among seniors often result from poor health, pain,... 
by Cori Carl | May 21, 2017 | Community Wisdom |
No matter how rewarding caregiving can be or how much we love the person we’re caring for, caregiving is frustrating. Frustration just comes with the package. We’re human and caregiving inevitably involves situations and tasks that are inherently... 
by External Article | May 17, 2017 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent |
Are people who live with dementia sometimes uncooperative, upset, angry or even “aggressive?” Yes. But then again, so am I. If provoked, do people who live with dementia sometimes “lash out?” Yes. But then again, so do I, although extremely rarely in a physical way... 
by External Article | Sep 14, 2015 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Caring for a Relative, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Millennial Generation |
In the space of one year, I became caregiver for my dad, aunt and husband. It didn’t happen all at once. First, there was the phone call from Dad’s neighbor, letting me know Dad had fallen and been taken to the hospital by ambulance, Aunt going with him. I knew then... 
by monikabasile | Aug 21, 2015 | Caregiver Stories |
“I can’t be angry.” Well I sure can. That is what I responded in my head when she told me it was cancer. I remember that evening eight years ago as if it were a moment a go. I pulled up to her house; she got in the car and told me what the doctor said. She had a book... 
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