by External Article | Aug 18, 2021 | Art, Caring for a Child, Long Term Caregiving |
For as long as Grevenitis can remember, being in public with Lulu has brought about a less welcome form of attention. Lulu was born with trisomy 21, or Down syndrome, the most common chromosomal anomaly diagnosed in the United States; the condition, which affects... 
by External Article | Feb 11, 2020 | Art, Care Work Library |
While making Breathers, a series of photographs of looming Pacific Northwest trees as metaphors for this fading, I was inspired to look at how other photographers approach the disease. The following artists use photography to understand, process, and cope with their... 
by External Article | Aug 9, 2019 | Art, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent |
If you care for a parent or loved one, you almost certainly interact with doctors, nurses and other staff at hospitals, clinics or assisted living facilities. Depending on how age-friendly these professionals are, you either have felt reassured they understand the... 
by External Article | Dec 6, 2018 | Art, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Long Term Caregiving |
At first, Stephen DiRado thought his dad was dealing with depression. Gene DiRado, then in his late 50s, had become more withdrawn, more forgetful. So Stephen processed his growing concern by doing what he’d done since the age of 12: taking photographs.it was... 
by External Article | Dec 1, 2018 | 24/7 Caregiving, Care Work Library, Housing, Long Term Caregiving |
This is Town Square, a daytime care facility for people with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia that attempts to engage participants with reminiscence therapy. The idea is to evoke an earlier era, which prompts participants to hark back to their most powerful memories,... by External Article | Jul 7, 2018 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child, Caring for a Grandchild, Caring for a Sibling, Generation X, Long Term Caregiving, Millennial Generation, Occasional Caregiving, Sandwich Generation |
After an autistic man’s stim toy was mistaken for a gun, with tragic results, NPR’s Aftereffects looked into how people’s stim toys impact their every day life. When you feel overwhelmed with sensory input, as a lot of autistic people often feel,... 
by External Article | Jun 13, 2018 | Art, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Grief, Millennial Generation |
I didn’t know how to communicate with him, and so the easiest thing to do was to not communicate with him. It was a way to protect myself emotionally from having a parent that was really entrenched in alcoholism and drug use. I was already struggling with my own... 
by STAT news | Jun 24, 2017 | Art, Finding Caregiver Support, Grief |
The emails poured in by the dozen, day after day after day. They came from parents and children, from violin makers and doctors, from sisters, husbands, colleagues, teachers. Some were spare, just a line or two. Others went on for pages, full of emotion. I read them... 
by Kaiser Health News | Oct 30, 2016 | Art, Death & Dying |
Ediccia wanted to be remembered as someone who didn’t give up. Chuck said some of his favorite times were playing baseball with his brothers. Joe said he was the luckiest man in the world. Abel summed it up this way: “You have a one-way ticket. Don’t waste it!” They... 
by External Article | May 1, 2015 | Art, Care Work Library, Caregiving Relationships, Caring for a Parent, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Long Term Caregiving |
A few years ago, Abby Kraftowitz met Tammy Copeman at an office supply store in Pittsburgh. Kraftowitz was immediately drawn to Copeman’s openness, especially the stories about her mother, Eleanor, who had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s eight years earlier. Over the... 
Recent Comments