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When mental illness bears down, respite centres can uplift

When mental illness bears down, respite centres can uplift

by External Article | Sep 9, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Client, Finding Caregiver Support, For Professional Caregivers, Long Term Caregiving | 0 comments

As a person with the mental illness disability of schizoaffective disorder, I am quite familiar with the inpatient mental hospital experience. I have frequently devolved into crisis and found myself in the Emergency Room. Being in a day programme provided me with...
Caring for the caregiver: Raising children with a disability or chronic disease

Caring for the caregiver: Raising children with a disability or chronic disease

by External Article | Jul 14, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child, Finding Caregiver Support | 0 comments

Amy Illingworth’s world was turned upside down when her two-year-old daughter, Victoria, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy…within months she had quit her job, devoting all her time and energy to Victoria’s care. Since the diagnosis, Illingworth’s life had been...
Ideas we should steal: Men’s sheds

Ideas we should steal: Men’s sheds

by External Article | Apr 30, 2019 | Care Work Library, Finding Caregiver Support | 0 comments

Phil Johnson, now 70, was living in Minnesota, recently retired from a career in software development and looking online for activities for older men. He thought often of his own father, who had struggled with getting out of the house for the last 20 years of his...
‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men

‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men

by External Article | Mar 9, 2019 | Care Work Library, Finding Caregiver Support | 0 comments

These men are mostly working class and middle-aged; a few are in their 20s. There is one much older bloke, who chuckles: “I used to deal with my frustrations by wrapping a pool cue round someone’s head.” Over the two-hour session, the group share the ups and downs of...
What is barbershop therapy?

What is barbershop therapy?

by External Article | Aug 23, 2018 | Care Work Library, Finding Caregiver Support | 0 comments

Amid the sound of television and hair clippers buzzing around him at Goodfellas Barbershop in Little Rock, Arkansas, Lorenzo Lewis was trying to get a man wearing a mask to talk about his emotional pain. Lewis asked the man how he was doing. “I’m good, I’m good,” he...
Seniors tell us what it’s really like to live in long-term care

Seniors tell us what it’s really like to live in long-term care

by External Article | Jul 5, 2018 | Care Work Library, Housing | 0 comments

I sat down with Sharron Cooke, a resident at Newmarket Health Centre outside of Toronto, and her friend, Devora Greenspon, 85, a resident at Extendicare Bayview in Toronto. SC: It’s very hard to be bedridden … I was bedridden for the two years in the hospital...
3 Tips on How to Find Caregiver Support Groups

3 Tips on How to Find Caregiver Support Groups

by Larry Meigs | Nov 20, 2017 | Caregiving 101, Finding Caregiver Support, Wellness | 7 comments

Caring for an elderly loved one can be a thankless task. It can also be an emotionally draining one. Experts believe anywhere between 40% to 70% of unpaid caregivers suffer from some form of clinical depression, and studies have found that caregiver stress puts a...

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