by External Article | Mar 6, 2023 | Caring for a Neighbor, For Friends & Family, For Professional Caregivers |
How we conceive of autonomy, goodness, and justice (or their absence) serves as a fulcrum to reimagine the care clinicians offer for patients like Amy. The philosopher Andreas Esheté argues that in the revolutionary triad of liberty, equality, and fraternity, it is... 
by External Article | Nov 22, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Friend |
As someone with multiple chronic illnesses—including ankylosing spondylitis, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, and chronic migraines—I know that I only have a finite amount of energy, and if I burn through that, I crash. Even so, that week, I’d been feeling pretty good, so I... 
by A Place for Mom | May 7, 2019 | Caregiving Relationships, Wellness |
Providing care for a parent or senior loved one can be all-consuming. The average family caregiver spends 24.4 hours per week providing care for loved ones and “nearly 1 in 4 caregivers spend 41 hours or more per week providing care,” according to the Family Caregiver... 
by External Article | Apr 12, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Millennial Generation |
Q: my father has been undergoing cancer treatments, making my dependency on my friends ever-more urgent and emphasized. Is it better to just not expect anything of anyone ever? Am I overreacting to some of my friend group’s lack of effort to be there for me in my time... 
by External Article | Jun 25, 2018 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caregiver Burnout, Caring for a Child, Caring for a Parent, Generation X, Long Term Caregiving, Occasional Caregiving |
Many people fantasize about running away and leaving it all behind. In this short story by Gary Shteyngart, Barry runs away from his wife and their autistic son. After taking the Greyhound to Atlanta, he hides out with his former employee, whom he’d fired years... 
by Kaiser Health News | Apr 28, 2018 | Caregiver News |
Ask Edith Smith, a proud 103-year-old, about her friends, and she’ll give you an earful. There’s Johnetta, 101, whom she’s known for 70 years and who has Alzheimer’s disease. “I call her every day and just say ‘Hi, how are you doing?’ She never knows, but she says hi... 
by External Article | Jun 8, 2017 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Friend, Millennial Generation, Occasional Caregiving |
Recently, thanks to a case of crip burnout, I decided to “just go with it” when a specialist wanted to do a procedure on me despite admitting to never having heard of one of my systemic diseases. The idea of dealing with insurance and finding a suitable second opinion... 
by External Article | Apr 25, 2017 | Finding Caregiver Support, Finding Meaning, For Friends & Family |
A silver lining in the dark cloud of serious illness — your own or a loved one’s — is the help and caring offered by friends, and the way that help can deepen friendships. Of the more than 80 women I interviewed recently for a new book about women’s friendships, many... 
by Danielle Page | Jul 3, 2015 | Finding Caregiver Support, For Friends & Family, Millennial Generation |
Quarterlife comes with a ton of obligations – from our day jobs, to work events, engagement parties, weddings, and family occasions that fill up our calendars. If you have a friend who’s overwhelmed with these responsibilities, and has been too busy to set a time to... 
by Cori Carl | Mar 14, 2015 | Finding Meaning |
We talk a lot about friends dropping us after we become caregivers. Before we write our former friends off, let’s take another look at the situation. Becoming a caregiver changes people in a big way. We look at the world differently: our priorities shift, our... 
by The Caregiver Space | Mar 1, 2015 | Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Parent, Interviews, Long Term Caregiving, Millennial Generation, Wellness |
Tell us about yourself I’m a 46 year old female who worked as a former secretary. I moved from Florida back to South Carolina as my parents started aging, eventually, I had to move in with them. I did have the opportunity to take an online medical transcription... 
by Adrienne Gruberg | Dec 25, 2014 | Adrienne's Journal, After Caregiving |
Strains of “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” underscore a commercial on my television—as if I really need to be reminded. Now, I’m not a “Bah! Humbug!” type of person, but these past few years, Christmastime hasn’t been so ho, ho, ho. As I write this, it’s... 
by Cori Carl | Oct 8, 2014 | Caregiver Burnout, Caregiving 101, Generation X, Millennial Generation, Wellness |
In high school, I hated when one of my friends would start dating someone and vanish, only to reappear when they needed a shoulder to cry on. They might have been awesome friends when they were single, but I stopped bothering with them pretty quickly. Why would I... 
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