Family Caregiver – An Integral Part of the Hospital Care Team
What family caregivers can do to help with patient care in the hospital.
Caregiving
Your Guide to Reaching Out to Vulnerable Seniors in Your Community
It can be easy to assume that seniors in your community are getting all the care and assistance that they need. Sadly, the opposite is often true. In fact, many seniors are living on their own because they have no loved ones close by. This makes for a truly unideal and often dangerous situation as …
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Home Care During a Pandemic
…while the focus has been on those living in senior communities, there has also been an impact to home care…
What To Do When a Loved One Dies
You’ve lost a loved one, now what? One of the most stressful experiences in life is losing a loved one. The last thing you need after the funeral is more stress from settling their estate. But not everyone has an attorney, accountant, and financial planner to take care of settling the estate. For those who …
George Washington’s Rules of Civility & Decency
Emily Post published her successful book on etiquette in 1922. But before that, there was George Washington’s Rules of Civility and Decency in Company and Conversation. However, young George Washington only hand-copied these rules (in the 1740s) from an English version of the rules first documented in 1595 by French Jesuits. Clearly, etiquette is something …
Products You Didn’t Know Existed
What I discovered as a caregiver I may not be a professional caregiver, or a full-time caregiver, or a sole caregiver, but I’m a caregiver all the same. Like the estimated 43.5 million others Americans who care for someone else, I found myself helping my parents out a little, then a little more, and then …
Another Side of Caregiving in the Age of Technology
In this day and age, caregiving for your parents may include more than just physical assistance. Caregiving may involve providing technical support. In other words, you may find yourself helping your parents and loved ones with computer and internet needs. Chances are, whatever their competency level is with computer technology, they have gaps in their …
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Food Choices for Time-Crunched Caregivers
Avoiding Dining Traps as a Time-Crunched Caregiver You’re a caregiver. Your time is stretched thin, which leads to eating out or on the go. But fast food, restaurant dining and prepared food from a grocery store may be working against you. Food is fuel. To be more precise, food delivers oxygen through your body, giving …
Too Much Love – Too Much Caring
Can we care too much? Can we love too much? Caring and loving are good things, but when does it become too much of a good thing? Love is a master of disguise Sometimes what pretends to be love isn’t genuine love. Trying to please people and make them happy is often motivated by selfishness …