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Author: Gail Mitchell

Ms. Mitchell began her full-time caregiving experience in the early eighties when her husband was diagnosed with cancer. Later on she became the primary caregiver for her father, along with her mother who had become critically ill from burnout prior to her dad’s passing. In recent years, she cared for several friends with AIDS while continuing to care for her mother and actively providing support, information, referrals and resources for caregivers.

Gail's leadership on the Internet and her success with Empowering Caregivers led her to found National Organization For Empowering Caregivers (NOFEC) INC in 2001.

Prior to founding NOFEC, she created the iVillageHealth Chat: Empowering Caregivers, which she hosted for over 5 years. Within a month of hosting she created Empowering Caregivers: www.care-givers.com in 1999 as a resource for caregivers around the globe. Over three million visitors have frequented the website.

She has presented at national and international care-related conferences and programs and has been a keynote speaker for many programs as well.

Ms Mitchell has assisted thousands of caregivers online and offline in ways to empower themselves in their roles in caring for loved ones.

For a list of clients and/or her resume, please contact info@care-givers.com

Gail's articles have been published in many venues nationally and in Canada. Presently, she is a member of American Society on Aging and National Quality Caregivers Coalition.

Gail has discovered that there is life after caregiving: She has become a successful ceramic artist and installation artist. She created Crystal Illumination Art to bring the transformative quality of illumination, light and color to the human experience and celebrate its ability to inspire, heal and nourish our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well being.

Information On Document Lists You Will Need As A Caregiver

By Gail Mitchell
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Forms - Downloadable & Printable
  • Long Term Care
  • Research

Types of Checklists that willl provide researcg that you will need to take action with so that your caregiving role will be easier.

Maintaining Independence For The Carerecipient And Yourself

By Gail Mitchell
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Long Term Care

Lack of independence might lead to low self-esteem and other emotional problems. To avoid that, a caregiver needs to establish guidelines approved by the carereciever that will preserve intdependance of both parties involved.

State Agencies On Aging

By Gail Mitchell
  • Aging
  • Forms - Downloadable & Printable

List of agencies on aging.

Getting Comfortable As A Caregiver In Your New Role

By Gail Mitchell
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas

Stepping into the role as a caregiver presents many challenges depending on who it is you are caring for. There is a lot of adaption that must happen in caregiving.

Types Of Services Available For Children, Adults, And Elderly

By Gail Mitchell
  • Community Services
  • Eldercare
  • Homecare - Home Health Care
  • Residential Options
  • Respite Coalitions & Services
  • Support Groups
  • Transportation Services
  • Volunteer Service Programs

Various services available for care receivers. Opportunities for care receivers to become involved with others and to be comfortable.

Benefits Of Pets In Healing

By Gail Mitchell
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

The medical establishment and people in general are beginning to recognize and accept the healing impact that animals have on a human being.

Nursing Home Evaluation Check List

By Gail Mitchell
  • Aging
  • Forms - Downloadable & Printable
  • Homecare - Home Health Care

Things to consider when looking for a perfect Nursing Home for the loved one. A checklist of questions you might want to ask when you visit the Nursing Home.

AXA Foundation Family Care Resource Connection

By Gail Mitchell
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Children & Youth
  • Community Services
  • Death and Dying
  • Disability - Accessability - Mobility
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Gay and Lesbian Issues
  • Grandparenting
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Home Safety and Modification
  • Homecare - Home Health Care
  • Legislation and Advocacy
  • Long Term Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Research
  • Residential Options
  • Respite Coalitions & Services
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Support Groups
  • Transportation Services
  • Volunteer Service Programs
  • Wellness
  • Workplace - Employment Issues

Briefly describes the AXA Foundation Family Care Resource Connection where listings, ratings, and reviews of a number of resources are provided. A variety of topics are addressed.

Compilation Of Authors on Mother’s Day

By Guest Author
  • Aging

A compilation of author discuss what mothers and mother’s day means to us.

Moving Beyond Appearance

By Gail Mitchell
  • Aging

Thoughts on the appearances of her father during his end of life stages.

The Role Of Being A Caregiver Is No Accident

By Gail Mitchell
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness

Accept your feelings and submerge in the loving and compassionate existence. Abandon your feelings of guilt and the need for approval before you start caring for the loved one.

Document Locator

By Gail Mitchell
  • Aging

Use this form to list all important documents, account numbers, pins, access codes and passwords and where they can be found.

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