Isolation
Isolation is a big part of caregiving. Society seems to forget we are out here doing all we can for our loved ones. The world at large focuses on larger issues and leaves caregivers to fend for ourselves.
Consumer Fraud Against The Elderly Aging Parents and Adult Children Together (A/PACT)
Scam artists often target older people, knowing they tend to be trusting and polite toward strangers. Here are some tip offs to rip offs.
Types of Strokes
The world of patients who had a stroke is completely different from ours. Discussion of types of strokes and consequences of those strokes.
Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part V
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.
Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part lV
- Disability - Accessability - Mobility
- Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
- Long Term Care
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
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.
Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part lll
Fear of being thought ignorant or pushy has kept many people from asking their doctors about alternative treatments for cancer.
Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part ll
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.
Introduction: A Cancer Guide Part l
A diagnosis of cancer is a powerful stimulis against procrastinating on kindly or beautiful things and a reminder that many of the material things aren’t that urgent.
A Tail Of Love
- Death and Dying
- End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
- Grief and Bereavement
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
The finally weeks of a dog’s owner caring for her mother will inspire and touch you.
Caregiver’s Bill Of Rights
Two different presentations on the caregiver’s bill of rights for caregivers to be aware of.
Coping With Grief
- Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
- Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
- Death and Dying
- Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
- Eldercare
- Grief and Bereavement
- Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
- Wellness
I address this article to those of you who are the remaining spouse, having placed your loved one into a care facility. This is a personal story discussing and affirming the feelings experienced by caregivers of Alzheimers patients.