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.
Self-Care For Caregivers
To provide optimal care for the loved ones, a caregiver must not forget about his/herself. Care for your health and treat yourself to something you like to do once in a while to keep you motivated and balanced.
Caring For A Parent With Alzheimer
The author describes her feelings and the situations in caregiving for a parent with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Pain And The Elderly
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?
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
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.
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.