An experienced caregiver gives some great ideas as to how you can make life more pleasant for your loved one.
Reasons and benefits for acquiring a geriatrics care manager and tips on how to do it.
The transition from home care to a health care facility can be difficult for caregivers and individuals alike. The following are helpful visiting tips when visiting your loved one who lives in a care facility.
Taking control doesn’t mean “doing it all” it simply means choosing what is important and letting go of what is not. Let us, as caregivers, look ahead to a one-step-at-a-time beginning in how we organize our lives and our attitudes.
After a stroke, both the stroke survivor and family often are apprehensive about being on their own at home. There are many common concerns which will be described.
The period following a cancer diagnosis is a difficult time of adjustment for family members. Each has to deal with individual feelings, while trying to be sensitive to those of the person with cancer.
Fear of being thought ignorant or pushy has kept many people from asking their doctors about alternative treatments for cancer.
Time along with demonstrations of love, understanding and affection by your partner and family should help you work through your feelings about your changed body image.
Some cancer patients live alone and some feel they have no one to live for. This increases loneliness and can make the will to live seem a bitter irony.
List of things one can do to improve long-distance caregiving. Also, hints on what to do when one is visiting the elderly.
Taking care of your parent who is living with you can be the most rewarding experience. However, you need to consider many factors before moving the parent in with you. Article lists suggestions on where to start.
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.
