life after caregiving

Death on her own terms

by External Article | Mar 20, 2019 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Death & Dying | 0 comments

Debra wanted her affairs to be in order. Her small home was quiet, save for the beeps and vibrations coming from her late-husband David’s cellphone: alarms reminding her when to eat, when to take her medications, when to water the plants. In the mornings and evenings,...

He would have been how old?

by Adrienne Gruberg | Aug 17, 2016 | Adrienne's Journal, After Caregiving, Caring for a Romantic Partner | 2 comments

The Dog Days of August are upon us. It’s blisteringly hot in New York and at the beach and not only is there no escape from the heat, but there’s nowhere to go where the 26th of August, my late husband’s birthday, isn’t looming large on the calendar. March 19, 2016...

The price of love

by Guest Author | Nov 17, 2015 | Caregiver Stories | 8 comments

The unknown sacrifices, the silent pain, the grief of loss… and I would do it again in a heart beat. I cared for my mother through a year and a half of lung cancer treatments and was holding her hand when she took her last breath. A year after mother died my...

I Got Addicted To Online Dating After My Husband Died

by External Article | Sep 21, 2015 | After Caregiving, Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Generation X, Grief, Working Family Caregivers | 0 comments

I couldn’t deal with being alone after the death of my husband. We spent all our time together to the exclusion of others. We were both introverted, anti-social, only children. We cooked (OK, George cooked), did projects around the house, and acted like boring...

by Michelle Daly | Jul 21, 2015 | Community Wisdom | 152 comments

For so many of us, our old life ended when we became a caregiver. What happens when our time as a caregiver ends? My mother just passed away and I’m at a loss. I’ve been taking care of her for seven years, my life revolved around her. Don’t know what...

After caregiving: building a new life

by Adrienne Gruberg | Dec 25, 2014 | Adrienne's Journal, After Caregiving | 15 comments

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...