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Caregiving Support Strategies: You Are Not Alone Part l

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Support Groups

Dealing with issues at the end of life, caregivers feel very alone. Decisions about life support and questions about the meaning of suffering permeate the everyday tasks and bring caregivers to a new threshold.

Caregiving Support Strategies: You Are Not Alone Part ll

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Support Groups

As a caregiver, you must accumulate as much information as possible. it is stressful and time-consuming but the experiences this author has learned is quite an accomplishment.

Getting Elders to Attend Adult Day Care

By Jacqueline Marcell
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Community Services
  • Eldercare
  • Support Groups

The author describes her fight to convince her parents to attend adult daycare.

Thoughts on War

By Gail Mitchell
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Eldercare
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Legislation and Advocacy
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Support Groups
  • Wellness

When will the government give the same priority to caregivers as that of the war? This editorial discusses the importance of advocacy today. Ideas for stress relief of unresolved anger also is discussed.

Steps On Starting Your Own Caregiving Support Group

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

Suggestions for creating support groups in your own area.

Ten Ways To Simplify Your Life

By Jennifer Ottolino
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Support Groups
  • Wellness
  • Workplace - Employment Issues

In this very fast paced world, it seems impossible to simplify our lives. Here are some strategies to help you weed out the unnecessary and simplify, simplify, simplify.

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.

Respite For Persons With Alzheimer

By Joyce Lewis
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Community Services
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Respite Coalitions & Services
  • Support Groups
  • Transportation Services

Various forms of respite care for caregivers of those with alzheimer’s and other dementias.

Siblings of Children with Special Health and Developmental Needs: Programs, Services and Considerations

By Donald Meyer
  • 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.

Healing Daily Losses

By Alexandra Kennedy
  • 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
  • Long Term Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Support Groups
  • Wellness

An examination on the many losses experienced in life through death, divorce, leaving home, etc and what they mean for the future.

For New Caregivers

By Gail Mitchell
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Support Groups

If you are new to the caregiving situation, the internet can become an incredible resource for research, support, and meeting other caregivers in simular situations. Here are some important things new caregivers should know.

Hospice As A Model For Caregiving

By Marcia Lattanzi-Licht, MA, RN, LPC
  • Caregiver Issues
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Support Groups

Hospice supportive services are designed to offer information and backup to family members so that they will be more then able to care for their loved ones.

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