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Nobody

By Barbara Bartocci
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

Hints on how to cope when your parents pass away. No matter how old your parent is you still have a right to be devastated. However, iti’s important to process through your pain and feelings.

Self Care

By Gail Mitchell
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness

Discussion of the responsibility for our own health through empowerment and “emotional nutrition.” Includes a personal story of caregiving, stress, disease, and the ability to take care of one’s self.

Cash & Counseling: Consumer Choices, Family Reimbursements

By Gail Mitchell
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Community Services
  • Death and Dying
  • Disability - Accessability - Mobility
  • Eldercare
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Home Safety and Modification
  • Homecare - Home Health Care
  • Residential Options
  • Respite Coalitions & Services
  • Transportation Services

Cash and counseling (C&C) is a program in which consumers are given the option of receiving cash payments to purchase a variety of support services or make household modifications. Learn more about this program here.

Fall of Memories

By Sandy Goodman
  • Aging
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Children & Youth
  • Death and Dying
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

After six years of losing her loved one, pain, fear, and love all persist in the daily life of the survivor. This compelling story of loss explores the importance of lasting memories.

Long Days Or Precious Moments

By Rabbi Richard Yellin
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • Disability - Accessability - Mobility
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness

Rabbi Yellin shares what he has learned from his mother who suffers from Alzheimer’s. It is not how long our days are but the singular moments in time that is worth an eternity.

Reflections Of A Veteran Caregiver

By Katherine Dorn Zotovich
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • Eldercare
  • Grief and Bereavement

The author shares her reflections as she looks back on caregiving her mother.. the ups and downs…

Elderly At Most Risk For Hyperthermia & Heat Related Illnesses

By New York Office on Aging
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Home Safety and Modification
  • Wellness

People over 50 are at the greatest risk of suffering heat-related illnesses. Many people die of heat-related illnesses each year; most of these deaths can be prevented with advance preparation.

Keeping Cool in the Summer Heat: Guidelines for The Elderly

By New York Office on Aging
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Home Safety and Modification
  • Wellness

With the hottest part of the summer approaching, the New York State Office for the Aging wants to encourage families of older adults to help protect seniors from the consequences heat can have on their health.

Stumbling Through The Rubble

By Debbie Ficocelli
  • 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.

Prologue From The Wealthy Soul – Part ll

By Michael Norwood
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Homecare - Home Health Care

The continuation of one man’s journey with his father during his dying days.

Prologue From The Wealthy Soul – Part l

By Michael Norwood
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Homecare - Home Health Care

This is one man’s journey through the death of his father, the stress of caregiving, and the acknowledgement of what he’s received from his father.

Parents Losing Parents – Part I

By Alexandra Kennedy
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement

Our parents, in their death, offer us the gift of another birth. In receiving that gift, we come to embrace life fully–with all its mystery and humanness, conflict and resolution, joys and sorrows, separations and meetings

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