Being Overweight Results in Serious Health Conditions
A report from Emory University, called America’s Health Rankings, reports that obesity will cost the United Stated $344 billion in medical related expenses by 2018. These calculations are based on a prediction that in 10 years, 43% of American adults may be 30 or more pounds overweight. Extra weight increases the likelihood of heart disease, [...]
Are You Feeling Like a Powerless Caregiver?
You’re a caregiver feeling powerless over a caregiving situation. Your loved one doesn’t want to accept there is a need for help, doesn’t want help, continuously acts in a manner inconsistent with health care needs or has memory loss and can’t even remember what you discussed? I’m offering small group caregiving classes beginning 8/26 called Caregiving: [...]
Your Perspective Differs from Your Loved One Receiving Care
Often we find ourselves in situations and we wonder how we got there. We all fall into ruts, become stubborn and set in our ways; it’s part of life. The challenge is when we become responsible for or a caregiver for a loved one. This is one time in life where flexibility and understanding the other [...]
Caregiving:Defining Relationships, Setting Boundaries and Managing Change
Caregivers come in different varieties – those who over commit, who’ve place themselves in impossible situations because they thought the time commitment would be an hour or two a week, suddenly it’s turned into a full time job — adult children who suddenly become caregivers after years of an unbalanced or non-existent parental relationship – [...]
Are You Resenting Your Loved One?
You’ve become a caregiver. Your life has changed. You’re mourning your old life and you’ve become resentful of the person you’re caring for. Join the crowd. Changes in our lives that take away from things we enjoy or want to do often cause resentment. It doesn’t matter if you’re the caregiver or the person needing [...]
What Do You Know About Dying?
Care at the end of life, whether it’s hospice or palliative care, isn’t talked about. Your doctor will rarely mention it unless death is imminent. Society doesn’t talk about death because in general we fear it. There are two disciplines, palliative and hospice care, that make all the difference when your loved one is experiencing [...]
Who Is Caregiving and Needing Care Really About?
You’re a caregiver, your loved one needs care. Who is this about YOU or THEM? If you’re coming from the right place it’s about them and their needs, not about you. When it becomes about you, the caregiver, is when you’ve failed to make a plan or set boundaries. That’s when you feel overwhelmed and [...]
Caregivers – Leave the Past Behind Along With Your Expectations
I visited with a son this week who went to see his mother and reported that the visit was “unpleasant” because she couldn’t hold a conversation or remember much. His mother has memory loss. Caregivers cannot expect their loved ones with memory loss to be in the same physical or mental space that they were [...]
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