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Author: Beth Witrogen McLeod

Beth Witrogen McLeod is an author, journalist, speaker and consultant on caregiving, end-of-life issues and renewal at midlife, especially for women. She is a double Pulitzer Prize nominee, and has won many national and regional awards for her work. She has written for Good Housekeeping, SELF, Family Circle, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Her latest book is Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal

Her expertise grew out of personal experience caring for her parents who were simultaneously terminally ill 1,200 miles away. With a father dying of a rare form of cancer and a mother with Lou Gehrig's disease and dementia, McLeod learned firsthand about the traumas and blessings of this mid-life rite of passage. She turned her experiences into a passion for public service, first writing and producing an award-winning newspaper series, "The Caregivers," for The San Francisco Examiner in 1995. It was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She developed a weekly column for The Examiner that often appeared on the New York Times Syndicate Web site. Honors for the series included National Hospice Organization, Pew Charitable Trusts, American Legion Auxiliary, Society of Professional Journalists, and many regional and local social service organizations.

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Caring For A Parent With Alzheimer

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Eldercare

The author describes her feelings and the situations in caregiving for a parent with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Pain And The Elderly

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Eldercare
  • Homecare - Home Health Care

One is entitled to be as pain-free as possible. Techniques and suggestions on how to keep your pain at a reasonable level. Examples are medications, biofeedback, meditation, and acupuncture.

Who Are You Going To Call?

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Eldercare
  • Home Safety and Modification

New personal emergency response system is becoming part of daily life of many home-bound elderly people. Learn about the benefits of PERS and other services that may assist your loved one. List of numbers an elderly can call in cases of emergency.

Alzheimers and Wandering

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Eldercare

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

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • 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

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • 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

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare

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

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Grandparenting
  • Long Term Care

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.

The Nature Of Loss – Excerpt -Chapter 6

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • 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

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Aging

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.

Caring for Aging Parents – Excerpt – Chapter 4

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Eldercare

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.

Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Aging

Caregivers are on a path seemingly without end, subject to the stresses and guilts of watching a loved ones pain without being able to erase it. They find themselves on a chaotic journey where the only certainty is the demise of a loved one.

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