Alzheimers and Wandering
Wandering is indeed a problem for Alzheimers patients and caregivers. Your loved one may experience disorientation and lose the ability to recognize familiar places and faces.
Loss And Grief
- Caregiver Issues
- Grief and Bereavement
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
- Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
It is ok to grieve for as long as one desires – there is no normal way to grief. However, moving on with your life is important for your well-being.
Long-Distance Caregiving
- Caregiver Issues
- Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
- Eldercare
- Home Safety and Modification
- Homecare - Home Health Care
- Long Term Care
List of things one can do to improve long-distance caregiving. Also, hints on what to do when one is visiting the elderly.
Early Stages – Alzheimer’s Disease
People in the early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease are healthy, high functioning and able to express feelings, concerns and experiences. They may have mild memory loss and some confusion.
When A Parent Moves In
Taking care of your parent who is living with you can be the most rewarding experience. However, you need to consider many factors before moving the parent in with you. Article lists suggestions on where to start.
Caregivers And Stress
One of the biggest health care crises in the U.S. today is the exhaustion and depression by people who care for aging relatives and friends, sometimes overdecades.
About Sue Bender: Plain and Simple and Everyday Sacred
Learn about Sue Bender and her trilogy of books, from Plan and Simple and Everyday Sacred to Stretching Lessons: The Daring That Starts From Within.
Adult Daycare
Learn about the types of adult daycare and the best way to find an adult daycare facility Learn if adult daycare is right for you and your loved one.
The Nature Of Loss – Excerpt -Chapter 6
- Aging
- Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
- Death and Dying
- Grief and Bereavement
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
- Wellness
Discussion of self-transformation during caring for the loved one and after the loved one is lost. Open your heart and enter a peaceable place ready to face your suffering and accept love.
Avoiding Caregiver Burnout
Caregivers may have been trained how to give an injection, but they have no one to help them deal with the strain of the illness itself. Most people don’t have a clue they’re burned out until they’re in crisis.
Awakening The Heart
- Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
- Caregiver Issues
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
- Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
Every day gives abundant opportunity to decide whether to be a victim or to embrace the world. We all suffer one way or another, yet the fires of hell can ignite the heart. And once love is sparked, although its constancy may ebb and flow, it can never di
Caring for Aging Parents – Excerpt – Chapter 4
Caring for an aging or ill parent is something that none of use expects to do. Parents are at the mercy of their caregivers while adult children are scared and ill at ease in dealing with a long term illness.