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Family Caregivers Are Given More Than They Can Handle

By Gail Mitchell
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Eldercare
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Legislation and Advocacy
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

More and more family members are becoming the primary caregiver to a loved one. In the instant of a diagnosis, caregivers, like yourselves are thrown into the role with no prior training. Contact your congress person for help.

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

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.

Afraid Of Dying? Part II

By Dr. Heather Anne Harder
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

There is much you can do to prepare yourself for the great adventure of death. Preparing for death can enrich your living experiences.

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.

Awakening The Heart

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • 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

Bells & Whistles And More…

By Dorothy Womack
  • Caregiver Issues

Let your ears be where your eyes cannot and then you can take a break from the siege of responsibility which a chronic caregiver is subject to. There are different types of noise makers that could make a caregivers’ life easier.

As A Caregiver You May Be At Risk For Depression

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

One of today’s biggest health care crises is the depression faced by those who minister to aging relatives and friends. More then 60% of caregivers experience depression.

Survey From Newsletter Subscribe 12/31/98

By Gail Mitchell
  • Caregiver Issues

TOPICS CAREGIVERS WANT TO HEAR ABOUT. Legal and financial how to’s ie: living wills, power of attorneys etc. Assistance to relieve my fears as a caregiver, Problems with siblings who won’t deal with the illness of our loved one or participate in the shari

Negative Or Positive Choices

By Gail Mitchell
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

As caregivers we sometimes encounter feelings of negativity, such as resentment, hate, anger or even fear. We might even experience mixed feelings bouncing back and forth from a negative to a positive. Here are ways of turning the negative to a positive.

Being A Caregiver Before Caregiving

By Marshall Gisondi
  • Caregiver Issues

Caregiving finds itself as one occupation whether sought or brought upon the individual(s) as one, which requires experience.

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.

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