by External Article | Feb 4, 2022 | Caring for a Parent, Generation Z, Long Distance Caregiving, Silent generation |
I pull up in front of the house, knowing Dad will not be waiting to greet me. Having trouble remembering when that stopped, but it has been over a year. A year like no other … what am I going to find today? How much food mouldering on the counters, sitting in pots on... 
by External Article | Sep 14, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child |
They didn’t tell me they were going to intubate my daughter until seconds before it happened. It was 2018, and I was lying in a hospital bed, cradling her 6-month-old body and all her wires in my arms. He held me. The words of reassurance we would have offered one... 
by External Article | Aug 30, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Long Term Caregiving |
To what extent, the researchers asked middle-aged adults, do your parents ignore suggestions or advice that would make their lives easier or safer? Ignore instructions from their doctors? Insist on doing things their own way, even if that makes their own or others’... 
by Harriet Hodgson | Aug 23, 2018 | 24/7 Caregiving, Baby Boom Generation, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Finding Caregiver Support, Health & Fitness, Long Term Caregiving, Wellness |
“Take care of yourself.” I’ve heard this advice more times than I can count and try to follow it. After being diagnosed with stage one endometrial (uterine) cancer and having a hysterectomy, I follow this advice religiously. For about three months I had been feeling... 
by Kaiser Health News | Oct 12, 2015 | Caregiver News |
Home health agencies are a segment of the medical industry that you may not know about if you or a loved one has never needed one. The companies send therapists and nurses into the homes of Medicare patients to help them recover from an illness or surgery. This summer... 
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