by External Article | Nov 9, 2021 | 24/7 Caregiving, Caring for a Child, For Friends & Family, Millennial Generation, Occasional Caregiving |
I am currently helping friends with their severely disabled child. The child needs round-the-clock supervision; this is especially challenging during the night, as someone must monitor the child’s condition at all times. Because of the pandemic and my friends’... by External Article | Oct 5, 2021 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Generation X, Occasional Caregiving |
My father and I have not been especially close for all of my adult life because of his inability to communicate or relate to me, to others or to the world in general in a meaningful way. As he has aged, his danger and menace have pretty much disappeared, and he has... by External Article | Aug 24, 2021 | Caring for a Child, Generation X, Long Term Caregiving |
Currently, only three states in the country explicitly include special ed students in their sex-ed requirements. Six other states provide optional resources adapted for more accessible sex-ed curriculums. Thirty-six states fail to mention students with special needs... 
by External Article | Aug 22, 2021 | Care Work Library, Finances |
This year, the federal government ordered hospitals to begin publishing a prized secret: a complete list of the prices they negotiate with private insurers. The insurers’ trade association had called the rule unconstitutional and said it would “undermine competitive... 
by External Article | Aug 12, 2021 | Care Work Library |
The nation’s caregiving work force is fraying. Paid providers are overworked and undervalued, often forced to take on multiple jobs or turn to public assistance just to scrape by. Many family caregivers are struggling as well, sacrificing their own health and... 
by External Article | Aug 11, 2021 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Death & Dying, Planning |
Some of the hardest conversations I have in my work involve telling families managing the debilitating chronic illness of a loved one at home that they are essentially on their own. Most do not realize that medical insurance does not pay for long-term home care.... 
by External Article | Aug 6, 2021 | Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Millennial Generation, Occasional Caregiving, Sandwich Generation |
As soon as we learned a new baby was on the way, Mike’s anxiety became more than an occasional visitor: It officially moved in. We recently had bought a family-size home with a yard in Seattle, and suddenly he saw danger everywhere. When someone you trust starts to... 
by External Article | Jul 9, 2021 | Caring for a Friend |
To break up with someone is to lose the imagined future you would create together, but you would always share the landscape of your collective past. If Sam could not remember, I would be alone in that landscape. His doctor said we had a window of opportunity to... by External Article | Jul 6, 2021 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Sibling, Long Term Caregiving |
One of my brothers is moderately schizophrenic; he does well on his medication but is increasingly unable to live alone. He and I are not close and are very different people, but when our mother went into a nursing home several years ago, he came to live with my wife... 
by External Article | Apr 16, 2021 | Care Work Library, Finances, For Professional Caregivers, Generation X, Millennial Generation, Sandwich Generation, Working Family Caregivers |
Infrastructure “of a country, society, or organization,” according to the Collins Dictionary, “consists of the basic facilities … which enable it to function.” I’ve inserted an ellipsis in place of the clause “such as transportation, communications, power supplies,... by External Article | Apr 1, 2021 | Care Work Library, Housing |
Regina Smith has dedicated her career to keeping seniors out of nursing homes. A geriatric social worker at an adult day care network in Indianapolis, she strives to provide services that can help people live independently. But Ms. Smith’s expertise didn’t keep her... 
by External Article | Feb 26, 2021 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Generation X, Long Term Caregiving, Occasional Caregiving, Planning |
During my dad’s illness, I experienced firsthand what had, until then, just been book learning: Financial planners are often at their best when your life is at its worst. Almost immediately, my siblings and I found ourselves out of our depth on a number of levels.... 
by External Article | Feb 22, 2021 | 24/7 Caregiving, Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Finances, Working Family Caregivers |
For four months, my husband, Brad, had been recovering from a stem-cell transplant that saved his life from aggressive lymphoma. The hospital administration said he must go home, but he needed a level of support that, I thought, only a hospital could provide. I became... 
by External Article | Feb 17, 2021 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories |
Federici is a longtime advocate of the idea that domestic work is unwaged labor and was a founder of the Wages for Housework movement in the early 1970s. It is a form of gendered economic oppression, she argues, and an exploitation upon which all of capitalism rests.... by External Article | Feb 5, 2021 | Caring for a Parent, Generation Z, Long Distance Caregiving, Long Term Caregiving, Occasional Caregiving |
Almost five years ago, when my father was 62, he learned he had Alzheimer’s disease. Over this time, my mother and I have watched his decline. He forgets his friends’ names and can no longer read. Every morning, he sits in a baby blue polka-dot towel and waits for one... 
by External Article | Dec 9, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories |
We asked experts on caregiving and aging, as well as dozens of people who have been caregivers themselves, for their best advice to help the next generation of caregivers. Sometimes a person becomes a caregiver overnight after a health crisis, like a stroke or cancer... by External Article | Oct 31, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child |
Q: Last December, our 30-something son lost his job and asked if he could move in with us, and how long he could stay. I told him that depended on how good of a roommate he was. The answer? Terrible. He is moody and volatile. I live on edge because I never know when... 
by External Article | Oct 14, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Silent generation |
“In my family, voting was the highest honor of citizenship,” his daughter, Judith Kozlowski, said. “You owed it to your country to vote; that was always the message.” It remains important to Mr. Kozlowski, now a resident of an independent living facility in Chevy... 
by External Article | Oct 8, 2020 | Care Work Library, Sandwich Generation |
Since L.’s birth in 2014, I’ve gradually assumed more and more responsibility, parenting both up and down the generational ladder. I’m the only child of parents who had me relatively late in life — my mom was 37 when she had me, a condition doctors still refer to as a... 
by External Article | Sep 14, 2020 | Care Work Library, Housing, Occasional Caregiving |
Since mid-March, when they locked their doors to all visitors, long-term care facilities in Texas have created the cruelest of contradictions. In order to defend the physical health of their residents, the residences are damaging their emotional health. Confronted... 
by External Article | Sep 9, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child |
When our younger child received an autism diagnosis at 3, my husband and I had no premonition of what fighting for her education would require of her, or of us. She’s now 9 — an enthusiastic and sweet-tempered kid who loves her teachers, classmates and school... 
by External Article | Aug 28, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories |
Early on, they wrote me a letter encouraging me to reconsider my decision to become a man. The message, while cruel, was likely founded in misinformation, fear and concern for me, but that was no comfort in the midst of a life-changing journey, which now would not... 
by External Article | Aug 22, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiving Relationships, Finding Caregiver Support, Short Term Caregiving |
While this article is written for people who’ve taken on supporting friends and family because of the pandemic, the advice is applicable to anyone who’s stepped in to help someone in need — after an accident, sudden illness, or any other unexpected... by External Article | Jul 25, 2020 | Care Work Library, Finances |
Supplemental Security Income — a cash assistance program whose beneficiaries also get Medicaid coverage — sharply limits the income and assets of those who receive it. Today, over eight million people receive S.S.I. benefits (not to be confused with Social Security... by External Article | Jul 23, 2020 | Care Work Library, For Professional Caregivers, Sandwich Generation, Working Family Caregivers |
Even though women have always done most of the caregiving, both paid and unpaid, it’s never been just a women’s issue. The pandemic made that undeniable. And when Joe Biden presented his new caregiving plan on Tuesday — speaking about his experience as a single father... 
by External Article | Jul 21, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiver News, For Professional Caregivers, Working Family Caregivers |
Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced a sweeping new $775 billion investment in caregiving programs on Tuesday, with a series of proposals covering care for small children, older adults and family members with disabilities. The United States is the only rich country without... 
by External Article | Jul 13, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner |
In September 2015, Jessica learned that she had stage 2B breast cancer, and six months later Dan was told that he had treatable stage 4 colon cancer. DAN I was in a rehearsal room, casting a play of mine, when a text from Jessica flashed on my phone with the results... 
by External Article | Jun 30, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiver News, Caring for a Client, For Professional Caregivers, Long Term Caregiving |
America’s neglect of older people extends to the people who care for them at home. The home health aides and certified nursing assistants who work in long-term care facilities and private homes are usually paid no more than the minimum wage and given few, if any,... 
by External Article | Jun 12, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Client, For Professional Caregivers |
This week, Canadian immigration officials said the federal government may allow such caregivers to essentially jump the immigration queue and remain in the country permanently because of the outsized contributions they are making to fight the pandemic. At a time of a... 
by External Article | May 20, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child |
Louise (also an alternate name) is an 8-year-old with a gentle temperament and a great sense of humor; she has taken quarantine gracefully. Louise is nonverbal, though, so we don’t know exactly what she makes of this strange time. Medical crisis has defined Louise’s... 
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