by External Article | Mar 5, 2021 | 24/7 Caregiving, Care Work Library, Caring for a Child, Sandwich Generation |
Jacqui Cameron was used to the toll of her son’s daily care. Seizures, feeding tubes, his incontinence and no sleep were all norms in her life. Now, with the pandemic, the Regina caregiver has even more to worry about. “We live with a double layer of... 
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 | Apr 2, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caregiver News, Caring for a Grandparent, Finding Caregiver Support |
Receiving phone calls from elderly clients who just want to talk is not unusual for community-based organizations like JASA (Jewish Association Serving the Aging). But the calls these days are more frequent and anxious. In this new environment, home food deliveries... 
by External Article | Dec 11, 2019 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Finding Caregiver Support, For Friends & Family, Health & Fitness, Long Term Caregiving, Silent generation |
Every day it seems scientists discover more ways in which loneliness can attack our bodies and shorten our lives. The Research is alarming, but for most of us, it is also confusing. How do scientists take a ubiquitous, enduring and universal feeling and turn it into a... 
by Kaiser Health News | May 19, 2018 | Caregiver News |
A social worker, Lisel Vargas, recently visited Don Gregorio at his storm-damaged home in the steep hillsides of Humacao, a city on Puerto Rico’s eastern coast near where Category 4 Hurricane Maria first made landfall last September. Gregorio, a 62-year-old former... 
by External Article | Sep 11, 2017 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Millennial Generation |
When I was a kid, my Dad taught me all about werewolves. Little did I know he was preparing me to understand his depression. Decades later, the werewolf analogy still helps me make sense of my father. Because, as with a werewolf, it is impossible to peel the man and... 
by Kaiser Health News | Feb 9, 2017 | Caregiver News |
Phyllis Krantzman knows what she should do, but like many of her peers, the 71-year-old doesn’t know how to approach a casual acquaintance to ask who will take care of her when she needs it most. Krantzman, of Austin, Texas, is among a growing number of seniors who... 
by Guest Author | Dec 26, 2016 | Caregiver News |
A new study found that more socially isolated breast cancer survivors had higher rates of recurrence and mortality, while women with larger social networks experienced better outcomes. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer... 
by External Article | Sep 23, 2015 | 24/7 Caregiving, Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories, Caregiving Relationships, Caring for a Sibling, Grief, Housing, Long Term Caregiving, Millennial Generation, Planning |
My first memory of Kara was during my mother’s pregnancy. I was three years old and my mother held me in a rocking chair and said, “I’m going to have a baby, but the baby is very sick.” The amount of care that Kara required impacted most aspects of my life. We rarely... 
by Yosaif August | Dec 14, 2014 | For Friends & Family |
Caregivers need to find ways to manage their stress this holiday season and you, as family and friends of a caregiver, can use holiday gatherings to help them do this. But first you need to open the door to a conversation with the caregiver about how they are doing.... 
by External Article | Nov 18, 2014 | After Caregiving, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, For Friends & Family, Grief, Reviews |
You’d think losing your mother would be the worst part of losing your mother. But for Annie Broadbent, whose mother succumbed to cancer in 2011, one of the hardest parts of the loss was watching her friends and family become paralyzed by the fear of saying or... 
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