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Caregiver 101

  • Positive Attitude

    Ten Ways to Maintain a Positive Attitude

    1. Learn healthy ways to manage your stress Read more

  • Guilt and Finding Balance

    Caregiver Guilt and Finding Balance

    How do you find the balance? Is there a balance? Am I doing the right thing? Should I be doing more? These are important questions for a caregiver. Read more

  • Finding Home Care

    When Caregiving is Not Enough - Finding Good Homecare

    Anyone who has ever looked for home-based care for a loved one comprehends what a daunting experience it can be. Read more

  • Seniors Attending Adult Day Care

    Trust Your Instincts

    Adult Day Care is a community-based program. There are more than 4,000 centers across the country with more than 78 percent operating on a non-profit basis. Read more

  • Emotional Fatigue

    Emotional Fatigue

    Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, founder of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving, says there are four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those Read more

  • Caregiver Relaxing

    The Four R’s Of Coping

    REORGANIZE RETHINK RELAX RELEASE Read more

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  • Respite Guilt free

    Respite: Enjoy a Guilt-Free Summer

    Why is it that the words “respite” and “guilt” seem to go hand in hand? Why do caregivers feel we are somehow failing our loved one by admitting that we need help, Read more

  • 6 things to remember

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    6 Things to Remember as You Start to Care for Your Parents

    Whether you are an adult child or a parent trying to communicate with your kids, here are six suggestions for overcoming some of the obstacles and frustrations we commonly experience during this time. Read more

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  • Caring for the Caregiver

    Caring for the Caregiver

    Being a caregiver is a stressful and demanding job. There is usually very little, if any opportunity to prepare for a new caregiving situation. Read more

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  • be a caregiver

    Do you have what it takes to be a caregiver?

    The time has come when a family member needs assistance and you’re struggling to understand what will be needed of you as you move into the role of full- or part-time caregiver. Read more

  • New Caregiver

    The ABCs of Caregiving

    Throughout our lives, we each perform a variety of different roles.  For me, I have been a daughter, sister, student, sales clerk, secretary, coach, and a writer.  The one role I thought I would never assume is now the main focus of my life ... Read more

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    Fearless Caregiver Emotional First Aid Kit

    You can find respite from your caregiving in the simplest things. Read more

  • Mobility Challeges

    Safety Begins at Home

    If you're among America's 54 million caregivers, knowing how to evacuate a loved one or how a loved one can take shelter during an emergency may not be as easy as just stepping out a door, or crawling out a window... Read more

  • Living With Your Home Health Care Aide

    Living With Your Home Health Care Aide

    You’ve made the decision to let an aide come into your home to assist. That was hard enough. Now you’re getting apprehensive about what to expect when the aide arrives for work. Read more

  • Caregivers Balancing Act

    The Caregiver’s Balancing Act

    In the 1960s, TV celebrity Ed Sullivan featured a Chinese talent artist who demonstrated the careful balance and timing of spinning porcelain plates atop thin, wooden sticks. Read more

  • Things I Have Learned

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    Some Things I Have Learned

    I have learned to learn about the illness. In my case, I have learned about 11 illnesses only to find that any one of them may crop up and have symptoms at any time and last for a few minutes, a few hours, a few days or even months. Read more

  • First Aid Kit

    The Caregiver’s First-Aid Kit

    A“Caregiver First-Aid Kit” is a reminder of the special significance caregivers have in their role caring for a loved one. Read more

  • Adult Day Respite

    Respite for Two

    Adult day care centers provide a break (respite) to the caregiver while providing health services, therapeutic services and social activities for people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia, ... Read more

  • Positive Aspects of Caregiving

    Positive Aspects of Caregiving

    Caring for a person with a debilitating illness is often challenging. It becomes all the more difficult when the person is in the throes of Alzheimer’s disease Read more

  • 7 Essential do's and don'ts

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    After Caregiving: Picking Up The Pieces

    As a caregiver, we totally commit ourselves to caring for another person who no longer functions as they once did in the normal scheme of life. We move in with them or move them to us. Read more

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