by External Article | May 9, 2022 | Finances, For Friends & Family, Long Term Caregiving |
Adult Protective Services agencies in every state receive reports of possible neglect, self-neglect, abuse or exploitation of older people and other vulnerable adults. But agency workers consistently face a bedeviling question: Does the adult in question have the... 
by External Article | Mar 26, 2022 | Death & Dying |
Where do people most want to be when they die? At home, they tell researchers — in familiar surroundings, in comfort, with the people they love. an article this month in The New England Journal of Medicine that pointedly asks, “Is There Really ‘No Place Like Home’?”... by External Article | Mar 13, 2022 | Generation X, Housing, Long Term Caregiving, Silent generation |
Ms. McWhinney-Morse was in her mid-60s when she and a handful of others her age started laying the groundwork for Beacon Hill Village. But younger villagers are surfacing. Jenn Prunty founded My Glacier Village in the Flathead Valley of Montana four years ago, when... by External Article | Mar 12, 2022 | Finances, Housing, Long Term Caregiving |
Ms. Biteranta now receives all of her health care through PACE, which monitors her, along with 120 other seniors, meticulously. PACE supplies much of her social life, too. “Here, they schedule you for appointments,” said Ms. Biteranta, 74, a retired nurse. “They send... 
by External Article | Jan 14, 2022 | Care Work Library, Finances, Generation X, Long Term Caregiving, Planning |
A diagnosis may be alarming enough, but equally frightening can be the costs for medical treatments, home renovations and other expenses. Some people with disabling conditions may be forced to retire earlier than they had planned, resulting in a loss of income and... by External Article | Dec 25, 2021 | Caring for a Parent, Death & Dying |
My mother and father never married. This meant, as my mother explained, that I was his legal next of kin, responsible for making his medical decisions. This responsibility, already complex because of his lack of a living will, would prove to be even more fraught... 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 31, 2021 | Caring for a Romantic Partner, For Friends & Family, Long Term Caregiving |
What are your thoughts on the spouse of an early-onset Alzheimer’s patient dating while said patient is still alive? By way of background, my mother was the full-time caregiver of my stepfather until a few months ago, when he was moved to assisted living, and she is... 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... 
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