What keeps me going: Crafting
Caregiving can seem like an endless slog of tasks to do. It’s hands on care. It’s driving to appointments and waiting for hours to see someone for three minutes. It’s the stacks of indecipherable insurance paperwork. It’s like all of the...
Who am I?: A look at identity, young adulthood, and caregiving
“For, indeed, in the social jungle of human existence there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.”[1] As Erik Erikson has so rightly typified, knowing “who you are” and “what you are about” helps us make sense of our personhood. Identity...
Not a caregiver
My dad says he’s not a caregiver, but I don’t buy it. He just happens to live with my grandmother, makes her breakfast, helps her up and down the stairs, maintains the house. Even though he owns the house on the other side of the fence. He just happened to...You’re More than the Name for What You Have.
[title text=”by Gerry Arango, author of What Would Nola Do? What My Mother Taught Me about Showing Up, Being Present and the Art of Caregiving”] My friend James says he’s brain damaged. I say he has a traumatic brain injury. I hear a big difference, which...
Breaking the code: How do you define caregiving?
Cracking the caregiving code is one of the first important steps to better understanding your role and better understanding how you can best provide help.
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