Helping Your Older Parents Stay Happy and Healthy
The following six recommendations will help you understand what may be happening to your parents as they age – and what you can do to help.
Why Should You Heal Yourself
- Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
- Caregiver Issues
- Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
- Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
Reasons for and techniques for self-healing.
The Courage of Caring
The author shares her caregiving experiences with her mother who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and the anguish of her father.
Little Billy
This story is a very real depiction of the challenging behaviors exhibited by the person with dementia. In this study a small child is able to intervene and provide a solution.
Caregiving – The Ultimate Love
- Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
- Caregiver Issues
- Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
- Death and Dying
- End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
- Grief and Bereavement
- Legislation and Advocacy
- Long Term Care
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
- Respite Coalitions & Services
- Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
- Support Groups
- Volunteer Service Programs
- Wellness
Being the caregiver of someone who is terminally ill is one of the most difficult and painful jobs one will likely ever experience. It is also one of the most rewarding and privileged gifts one can ever give or receive. It is the Ultimate Love.
Alzheimer’s
Fear surrounds Alzheimer’s, nobody wants it, everybody is afraid of it. Families of people who have it are afraid of what they see happening. How can we over come the fear?
Compassionate Communications: Compassionate Care
- Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
- Caregiver Issues
- Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
“No one can ever be fully prepared for the challenges of care- giving…even more so when caregivers … have been thrust into their role unexpectedly or reluctantly, or must care for someone who is uncooperative or combative.”
Who Cares for the Caregiver?
The article describes the emotional processes caregiving. It is possible to find a coach to assist you and your loved ones in the process of transition from independent to assisted living.
Wheelchair Ballet
The author explores a situation with an Alzheimer’s patient in a nursing home that can be viewed as disruptive. But upon questioning, the nurse understands that there are options to understanding better what the patient is experiencing.
Apple Pie
Apple Pie is a very real depiction of the challenges faced when a parent is living at a distance. This daughter is a child who grows up to be her Mother’s best friend as they navigate Alzheimer’s disease together.
The Sin of Kin
This article discusses the relationships of caregivers to members of their family who do not share in the caregiving process but are critical in their methods.
The Refinement of Empathy
While written for academia, there is much many a caregiver can identify with or begin to understand in empathizing more with those they care for. This article traces refinements in empathic knowing, highlighting the phenomenon of deep empathy.