12 Gift Ideas for the Caregivers in Your Life
Caregivers don’t get to go holiday parties or even celebrate with family and friends, but that’s not because they don’t want to. They can, however, be part of the giving holiday spirit and we want to give you an idea of some gifts that would be appropriate for the...
How to welcome the Holidays as a Caregiver
After my husband suffered a catastrophic stroke in 2005, the holidays didn’t seem so merry. I found myself yearning for our life before Don became paralyzed from the neck down and had to use a respirator to breathe. Everything about the holiday season seemed to...
Surviving the holidays: a guide for family caregivers
The holiday décor and trappings have already appeared in stores and folks are starting to make celebratory plans for the season. If you are a family caregiver for an ill or cognitively impaired individual, you may not be looking forward to the holidays; more work,...
3 Things to Know about Caregiving Youth During the Holidays
In the United States, there are at least 1.4 million children and 5.5 million young adults who provide unpaid care to family members with disabilities, mental illnesses, injuries sustained through military service, and substance abuse issues. Here’s what you...
Happy new year?
There have been so many griefs this past year, public and private, almost no one I know has not been touched by it in some way, yet we don’t talk about, even work hard to repress this very universal and crucial process. I woke yesterday to step out of bed into...
New years resolutions: 4 resolutions to focus on what matters in 2015
If you’re not someone who believes in new years resolutions, keep reading. Resolutions are a time old tradition but too often we focus on goals that don’t serve us or aren’t specific enough to tackle. Making resolutions encourages you to discover how...
After caregiving: building a new life
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...
Counting our blessings as we get ready for a new year
Join Adrienne this week for an exercise in counting your blessings as we reflect on the past year and our caregiving journeys. The lives of caregivers can be especially difficult but each of our daily lives include things that make us smile. The simple act of...
Learning to really listen
Caregivers need to find ways to manage their stress this holiday season and you, as family and friends of a caregiver, can use holiday gatherings to help them do this. But first you need to open the door to a conversation with the caregiver about how they are doing....
Privacy and family caregiving
Caregivers need to find ways to manage their stress this holiday season and you, as family and friends of a caregiver, can use holiday gatherings to help them do this. But first you need to open the door to a conversation with the caregiver about how they are doing....
6 Tips for Embracing Caregivers at Holiday Gatherings
Holidays increase stress for everyone, especially caregivers. A new APA study found that more than 6 out of 10 Americans report significantly more stress during the holidays. Caregivers need to find ways to manage their stress this holiday season and family and...
Teens and caregiving, part 1
An estimated one out of every eight Americans aged 40-60 are caring for an aging family member while still raising children. Chances are the children of this “sandwich generation” are teenagers or close to that age range. Three Generations Under One Roof When...Out of the Ashes
Living in a household affected by chronic illness is challenging, stressful, frustrating, and sometimes next to impossible. It often feels like a jail sentence from which there is no escape. But over the past almost seven years, my family has experienced amazing...
Changing Christmas Customs for Caregivers
The holiday cannot always be celebrated in the way you’re used to. Here are a few ways to revise your Christmas traditions. After all, it is more important who you spend your Christmas with than what you do with them.
A Caregiver’s Thanksgiving
To fully appreciate the enormity of gratitude is to walk in the life of a caregiver.
Celebration, Impacted. Caregiving and the Holidays.
It was really upsetting to flip through this season’s magazines without finding a single helpful article on how to handle the holidays when you’re unable to celebrate the way you used to.
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