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“Grief, Mourning, and Guilt”

By Lincoln/Greater Nebraska Chapter of the Alzheimers Association
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Long Term Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

It is common for both the impaired person and the caregiver to experience feelings of loss, grieving, denial, anger, guilt, physical symptoms and eventually acceptance.

Cycles of Life and Circles

By Dorothy Womack
  • Aging

Although seperated by death, we are united in love and throughout it all, the love remains. The questions are never erased but then neither are the memories. Such is the cycle of life.

Baby Boomers Fear Talking to Parents About Death

By National Hospice Organization
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Eldercare
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

Research shows that Americans are more likely to talk to their children about safe sex and drugs then to their terminally ill parents about choices in care as they near life’s final stages.

Side Effects of New Medications

By Gail Mitchell
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Research
  • Wellness

Many medications being made available today have been approved after undergoing relatively short research trials. The importance of checking, double checking, and doing your research on your meds cannot be emphasized enough.

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.

Legal Terms And Medical Directives Terminology You Should Know About

By Gail Mitchell
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Disability - Accessability - Mobility
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters

Legal Terms And Medical Directives Terminology You Should Know About

Understanding Viatical Settlements

By Federal Trade Commission
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters

Benefits of viatical settlement and guidelines on how to choose the best settlement that will buy your life insurance policy.

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.

Why Do We Make Dying So Miserable?

By Ira R. Byock M.D.
  • Aging
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Eldercare
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

Is there a point in arguing whether assisted suicide should be legalized or not? the point is to alleviate suffering and let those who are close to the end perhaps acquire spiritual and emotional stability before they depart.

What Are The Outcomes Of Restraint Use? And What To Do

By National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Eldercare
  • Wellness

General information on restrain use and hints on how you can decrease restrain use in the most effective way.

Children And Grief

By American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)
  • Aging

Parents should be aware of normal childhood responces to a death in the family, as well as the danger signs.

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