Last Moments- You Never Know When …
If you haven’t had a last moment yet, let me tell you they occur like any other moment during any given day. You rarely know when they’ll happen. Looking back there might have been signs but you missed them. You might suspect if there’s a situation where a loved one has been ill that a last [...]
Caregiving Crises is Similar to the Experience of a Natural Disaster
Resilience is a quality successful caregivers possess. Even more interesting is the resilience of individuals who have survived natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The sequence of being resilient includes understanding of the hazard. In a caregiving situation this means understanding a health diagnosis and how progression might occur. There’s also a need [...]
How to Avoid Costly Mistakes When Choosing a Retirement Community
Are you an adult child who realizes it’s time for your parents to move to a care community but you’re not sure how to have the conversation? Join me March 26 or March 27, 2011 at The Caring Generation listener appreciation event: How to Avoid Costly Mistakes When Choosing a Retirement Community. I’ll share the [...]
Your Parent’s Attitude Toward Assisted Living Won’t Affect Their Adjustment
Are you an adult child knowing it’s time for your parents to consider a move to assisted living but you’re not sure how to have that conversation? An article in Physical and Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics indicates that “an older person’s mental readiness or denial of the need or likelihood of long term care placement [...]
We All Want to Sleep at Night
I was visiting with staff at a retirement community in Denver recently and we were talking about helping older adults and family members make the right choice in communities. Questions arose about our program Precious Cargo www.preciouscargoexpert.com and whether we would steer individuals away from a particular care community. My response was that I never [...]
Supporting Caregivers
Have a friend or family member who bears the majority of responsibility of care?Do something nice for them not only during the holidays but every month of the year.Give them the gift of time by giving your time to care for their friend or family member and sending them to the movies or out of [...]
Celebrating the Last Years of Life
If you’re a caregiver for a loved one or parents who require a reasonable degree of assistance, it’s likely you’re caring for them in the last years of their lives. Many of us don’t think about this. Instead we become angry and impatient because of the time, energy and resources involved in caring for a [...]
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 – [...]
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