by External Article | Jun 28, 2023 | Art, Caring for a Client |
When you call his mother, give yourself time. A half hour, at least. Give up on the idea of beating rush hour traffic home. Swipe your badge and enter through the doors of the inpatient psychiatry unit, the one with the conference room you know will be empty at 4:00... 
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 | May 20, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Sibling |
How my brother survived so long out on the street eludes me still. Much of it, I’m sure, had to do with his own strengths. Since adolescence, Tom had been deeply concerned with how to live, how to do right by others, how to be. He was quick to defend the weak, to tell... 
by External Article | May 3, 2019 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Long Term Caregiving |
In an interview with my father, Paul Weidlinger, toward the end of his life, he told me how he held my mother in his arms as she gradually calmed down. Later that night he woke up to discover she was gone. She had left their New York apartment wearing only a raincoat.... 
by External Article | May 11, 2018 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Long Distance Caregiving, Occasional Caregiving |
A year after rehab, Jamie Brickhouse is struggling with a relapse as his mother starts to deteriorate. Normally she’s so put together, but during his parents visit to see him in NYC, it’s clear that she’s not herself anymore. After police encounters... 
by STAT news | Mar 16, 2018 | Caregiver News |
We need to encourage them to do so In medicine, we talk a lot about advance directives, mainly in the context of end-of-life treatment. But, recently, while treating a patient with schizophrenia, I realized how powerful and important that same document could be in... 
by Mosaic Science | Mar 17, 2017 | Caregiver News |
Now we can treat it without making other symptoms worse Half of people with Parkinson’s disease experience hallucinations, paranoia and delusions. Mary O’Hara reports on a new hope. One night without warning, Jay Sagen leapt from his bed and grabbed the quilt, then... 
by External Article | Jul 22, 2015 | 24/7 Caregiving, Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caregiver Burnout, Caring for a Parent, Finances, Housing, Long Term Caregiving |
At 56 years of age, I returned home to care for my parents. Both of them have dementia. I lived in their unfinished basement with spiders and centipedes. That was four years ago. Now, I have less money and fewer prospects. My siblings are not interested. My... 
by Arthur Roeser | Jul 18, 2015 | Baby Boom Generation, Caring for a Parent, Housing, Long Term Caregiving, Notes from the Problem Child, Planning |
This is last part of Notes from the Problem Child, Arthur Roeser’s caregiving story. Read part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, part eight, part nine, and part ten. I was helping mom where she couldn’t help herself.... 
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