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... 
by External Article | May 5, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child, Caring for a Grandchild, Working Family Caregivers |
In the daytime, she’s taking care of her daughter, De’Onna, 20, who has cerebral palsy. At night, she’s delivering meals through the company DoorDash, a food delivery app. At DoorDash, women make up over half of its “dashers” in suburban areas and more than 60 percent... 
by External Article | Apr 23, 2020 | Care Work Library, Finances, Finding Caregiver Support |
Ricardo Figueroa, 31, isn’t a family member or caretaker or even a neighbor. He’s a paid companion who was connected to Mr. Rodger through Papa, a health tech company that provides “grandkids on demand.” Before the new coronavirus pandemic, the two spent multiple... 
by External Article | Apr 7, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiver News, Finding Caregiver Support |
When the government appealed recently for 250,000 people to help the National Health Service, more than 750,000 signed up. It was forced to temporarily stop taking applicants so it could process the flood. In addition to the national program, hundreds of... 
by External Article | Mar 31, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiver News |
In the United States today, there are approximately four million older adults who are not in nursing facilities but who need help with personal care (bathing, dressing or eating) and another 3.5 million older adults who need assistance in areas such as finances and... 
by External Article | Feb 27, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child |
A man in his mid-20s regularly roams the streets of my small town in the middle of the night. He looks angry and doesn’t communicate clearly. Not everyone living in the area knows him. But the police do. “His father reached out to us,” said Sgt. Adrian Acevedo of the... 
by External Article | Feb 11, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child, Caring for a Parent, Generation X, Long Term Caregiving, Sandwich Generation |
When Tanya Brice’s mother moved into her apartment in Owings Mills, Md., five years ago, she was already caring for twin toddlers, one of whom has autism and an intellectual disability, and a teenage son. Brice, 43, is a single mom, and was supporting the household on... 
by External Article | Jan 6, 2020 | Care Work Library, Finding Meaning |
“In short: Yes, it’s good to complain, yes, it’s bad to complain, and yes, there’s a right way to do it,” Dr. Kowalski said. The trick to doing it right starts with understanding how the word “complaining” is often misused to describe a variety of behaviors, with some... 
by External Article | Jan 3, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Grandparent, Caring for a Parent, Death & Dying |
It is one of the most vexing chapters of old age: how to navigate not just the inevitable ending, but the days and months immediately before it. As the bonds of support and dependency change, how do we tell our children that it is O.K. to say goodbye? And how do we... 
by External Article | Nov 23, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Sibling, Generation Z |
Ms. Gonzalez Gil, 18, is now a senior at the High School for Health Careers and Sciences in Manhattan. Taking tests gives her anxiety, she said, and she performs better in school with the help of individual coaching from her teachers. The anxiety started at an early... 
by External Article | Oct 30, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Finances, Long Distance Caregiving, Long Term Caregiving, Planning |
A little over two years ago, my family was involved in a catastrophic car accident overseas. My younger sibling was killed, and my parents survived but are severely disabled. My father is quadriplegic, while my mother has a traumatic brain injury resulting in severe... 
by External Article | Sep 18, 2019 | Care Work Library, Finding Caregiver Support, For Professional Caregivers |
According to Jean Accius of AARP, these once invisible men are starting to “come out” publicly. Dr. Accius has written: “They are husbands taking care of their spouses or partners, sons taking care of Mom or Dad, friends taking care of neighbors. These men are... 
by External Article | Sep 17, 2019 | Care Work Library, Death & Dying, Long Term Caregiving |
The facility is called an L.T.C.H., a long-term care hospital (also known as a long-term acute care hospital). It’s where patients often land when an ordinary hospital is ready to discharge them, often after a stay in intensive care. But these patients are still too... 
by External Article | Sep 14, 2019 | Care Work Library, Housing, Long Term Caregiving |
“As with families, some assisted living facilities are dysfunctional, but that doesn’t mean we should ditch them altogether. We need better options for where and how to live as we age. The author labels assisted living’s attempts to balance support with... by External Article | Sep 6, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Finances, Millennial Generation, Sandwich Generation, Working Family Caregivers |
Daughters said they sacrificed careers when their relatives wouldn’t. Others said hiring help sapped finances. And more than a few found treasured final moments with loved ones despite the overwhelming work of caring for them. After The Times published a pair of... 
by External Article | Sep 3, 2019 | Care Work Library, Death & Dying |
As a palliative care physician, I regularly ask my patients, or their family members, where they want to die. The specific language I use depends on what they know, what they want to know and how they process information, but the basic premise is the same. Having... 
by External Article | Sep 3, 2019 | Care Work Library, Finances |
Ms. Price, 40, a nurse and local 4-H leader, has been sued five times by Carlsbad Medical Center, for bills totaling more than $17,000. It’s not because she and her children are uninsured; according to the hospital, the charges are what she owed after her insurer had... 
by External Article | Sep 2, 2019 | 24/7 Caregiving, Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, For Professional Caregivers |
Since mid-January, Marjorie has been Bob Dettmer’sround-the-clock caretaker. Bob is fogged in by Alzheimer’s and unsteady from Parkinson’s. Marjorie’s job is called home health aide, but the term does not begin to encompass her duties. She is social... 
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 External Article | Aug 29, 2019 | Care Work Library, Finances, Long Term Caregiving, Millennial Generation, Working Family Caregivers |
Aisha Adkins would rather have her own place, instead of living with her parents. She would also like a job, a car, a master’s degree and savings. But at 35, a decade after graduating from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro with a specialty in social services,... 
by External Article | Aug 23, 2019 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Finances, Long Term Caregiving, Planning |
Karen Herzog, a retired high school teacher, bought a long-term care insurance policy 12 years ago because she didn’t want to burden her only daughter if someday she could no longer care for herself. Then a letter arrived in May that complicated her well-laid plan.... 
by External Article | Jul 2, 2019 | Art, Care Work Library, Caring for a Child, Long Term Caregiving, Planning |
In the fall of 2006, when I reached out to the Floquet-McGovern family as part of a photography project about raising children on the autism spectrum, I thought I’d spend one afternoon at their house in western Massachusetts. I spent 12 years with them instead. Ethan... 
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