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.
Issues of care-giving by physicions. Education in med schools nowadays lacks emphasis on how to take care of a patient during terminal phases of illness. How human suffering is aliviated by doctors and healers.
Research shows that Americans are more likely to talk to their children about safe sex and drugs then to their terminally ill parents about choices in care as they near life’s final stages.
Discussion of self-transformation during caring for the loved one and after the loved one is lost. Open your heart and enter a peaceable place ready to face your suffering and accept love.
Through her experience with her beloved pet, Magi, the author learned lessons in trust and faith in addition to some alternative medicine treatments for both animals and humans.
Compassion in Dying provides counseling and support related to end-of-life choices. The organization believes dying individuals should be permitted to make their own end-of-life decisions, including hastening their own death.
A study of Alzheimer caregivers families are the backbone of the long-term care system and provide care at enormous personal cost — to their health, other role responsibilities, & financial security. Astounding statistics are given.
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.
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
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.
According to the author, loneliness is a condition of SPIRIT, not the MIND. Realize that there are others who experience the same pain as you do and that you can connect with those people spiritually.
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.
