Respite Services To Support Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Respite can provide a much-needed breathing space for grandparents, giving them time to balance caring for their grandchildren with caring for themselves.
Mistakes Grandparents Make
Excellent discussion on grandparenting mistakes from within and with the grandchildren and how to prepare for them.
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families: TANF
Types of grants and how to apply for them from the TANF program.
Faded Flower Excerpt by Paul McCusker
- Aging
- Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
- Children & Youth
- Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
- Eldercare
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
This is one family’s struggle with Alzheimers disease and its progression. The one thing that is certain is change.
Caregiving and Teens: Caregiving? What’s it all about?
- Aging
- Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
- Caregiver Issues
- Children & Youth
- Community Services
- Eldercare
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
- Residential Options
This guide helps teenagers understand the importance of their role and how to deal with this role when caring for an older adult, especially in their home.
Stumbling Through The Rubble
- Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
- Caregiver Issues
- Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
- Children & Youth
- Death and Dying
- Grief and Bereavement
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
- Support Groups
- Wellness
This is one woman’s struggle with grief and bereavement, how it effects her family, and how she deals with it in her own way.
Siblings of Children with Special Health and Developmental Needs: Programs, Services and Considerations
- Children & Youth
- Community Services
- Disability - Accessability - Mobility
- Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
- Support Groups
This article focuses on programs and ideas that include siblings of children with special health and developmental needs.
Children And Grief
- Caregiver Issues
- Children & Youth
- Death and Dying
- Grief and Bereavement
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
Involving a child in the ritual of a funeral will help her/him become accustomed to the reality of death. Experiencing mourning as a family will help you and your children feel less alone.
Filling The Void
Many times when changes in our lives create overwhelming gaps in our daily existence. When we have given constant care to a loved one and they continue on their journey to their final destination, we often feel as though a large part of us is missing.
Open Wide The Door
- Caregiver Issues
- Children & Youth
- Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
What one person sees as a “testing” situation, another may not. It is folly to compare situations, claiming our circumstances are worse than others’.
Finding The Silver Lining: A Story Of Courage And Healing – Part I
- Caregiver Issues
- Children & Youth
- Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
- Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
Hear a story of courage and healing as the author battles medical problems and depression.
AXA Foundation Family Care Resource Connection
- 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.