Inspiring, Great Caregiver Moments Camouflaged in the Every Day
Yes, it is challenging juggling our full lives as caregivers. The ever-so-opulent word ‘balance’ seems to evade our own experience. Yet, there are moments that inspire and sustain us and we move forward hoping for more of these moments more often. That somehow luck will fall upon us and our quality of life will rise…
A Poem for Caregivers
Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world…
Alzheimer’s Caregiver Guest Blogger, Lisa Hirsch
My mom has had Alzheimer’s disease for probably the last five to seven years. It’s hard to actually know when the disease got a hold of her. There were certainly things that my mom said and did that stared me right in my face that I seemed to have ignored. Or should I say I…
As baby boomers retire, a focus on caregivers
CNN) — Whenever Felicia Hudson gets overwhelmed juggling a full-time job and caring for her ailing father, she finds solace in a piece of paper hanging in her office. “Circumstances do not cause anger, nervousness, worry or depression … it is how we handle situations that allow these adverse moods,” it says. “We actually choose…
