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What Can Hospice Do For Seniors?
Author: Becky Sobol
Hospice can give you choices. Choosing hospice means that at the end of a long, tiring journey, someone will be there to guide you home. You choose the place, the caregiver, the level of symptom management and the spiritual support. God determines the time.
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Putting Your Caregiving Foot Down
Author: Jodi Lyons
One of the most common questions caregivers have but often feel guilty asking is the following: What if the person needing care is being unreasonable? Do you say something?
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How Not to Let Caregiving Steal Your Holiday
Author: Jodi Lyons
The summer season has brought gaps in caregiving plans to the forefront. After the gray, rainy days of spring, the weather turns warm and thoughts turn to the beach, mountains, strawberry picking, and other last-minute adventures.
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Caregiving Pros
Author: Jodi Lyons
I'm a big fan of personal responsibility, family caregiving, and "honor thy father and mother." I'm also a realist. Furthermore, the senior care market has changed, there's a trend towards consumer-driven decision-making, and many "kids" don't live near their parents anymore. So, when do you call in professional help?
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Speaking Up: How Confrontation Can Lead to Better Care
Author: Jodi Lyons
If you're a caregiver and something doesn't seem right, take action quickly and assertively. Don't let the fear of a confrontation stop you! One of the challenges I face as an eldercare consultant is dealing with the aftermath of clients not questioning medical/healthcare advice when there's a problem. Unsolved small problems often explode into health care crises.
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David
Author: Terri A. Corcoran
“David died!” Virginia exclaimed to me over the phone. Shortly before that on an icy evening in February 2007, Virginia had called frantically to ask me to pray for her son David who had collapsed at work and was taken to the hospital.
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Anticipate the Panic, and Plan Accordingly
Author: Jodi Lyons
Thunderstorms, tornadoes, hail and driving rain wreaked havoc in the Washington, DC, area recently... But I'm prepared. I've made sure my friends and family are prepared. Some call me a "nervous Nellie," others, "prepared Polly."
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You need a manicure, and it's OK if you get one!
Author: Jodi Lyons
Years ago, I was told by an expert "juggler" (successful executive, working mother, and caregiver to elderly parents) to schedule manicures as if they were appointments, and to honor them as such. Always impeccably put-together and looking calm and in control, she was a human example of the swimming duck theory (look calm on the surface and paddle madly underneath).
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A Spousal Caregiver and Well Spouse
Author: Richard Anderson
Richard Anderson is the President of the Well Spouse Association, an organization devoted to taking care of the caregiver. Here he talks about how he first got involved in WSA and how it has helped him to realize he is far from alone.
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Where Do You Go For Support?
Author: Jodi Lyons
You're the caregiver, otherwise known as the juggler. People turn to you when they need help. You're an expert multi-tasker. So, where do you go when you need help?
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Do You Need A Hand With That?
Author: Jodi Lyons
Holidays and visits often are when we notice changes in people we love. Sometimes there are good changes like seeing the baby who has learned how to walk. Other times, there are worrisome changes that will turn you into a caregiver whether you're ready or not.
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Pressure Times Two
Author: Sally Abrahms
Two blood clots, two operations followed by a massive staph infection, and another surgery. Then two years later, my mother had a stroke. At age 88, she is now confined to a wheelchair with 24 hour care. This former English teacher can still spout Shakespeare, as she did in the hospital, trying to convince the neurologist that she couldn’t possibly have had a stroke and still recite Hamlet.
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Moving Made Simple
Author: Jennifer Prell
Moving can be very overwhelming for seniors and their families. The seniors have usually lived in the same house for many, many years. They don’t want to change their lifestyle and/or they are afraid of losing independence.
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Organized Solutions for Aging Parents
Author: Howard Wolkowitz
More than one-quarter of the adult population has provided care for a family member or friend during the past year. From a parent slowly debilitated by Alzheimer’s disease to a friend suddenly incapacitated by a stroke, the number of people requiring such care is growing dramatically as our elderly population increases. Many of their caregivers are still caring for their own children and working full or part time.
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Conversation before the crisis
Author: Judy Peres
It may seem as though there is never a “good time” to talk about death and dying. With so much in the news about our aging population and end-of-life care, people are beginning to value a good death as much as they do a long life.
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In Sickness and in Health
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter in her book Helping Yourself Help Others writes:
“There are only four kinds of people in the world.
Those who have been caregivers
Those who currently are caregivers
Those who will be caregivers
Those who will need caregivers.”
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Caregiving of a Parent After Surgery
Author: Lynn Osborne
As I hung up the phone, my mothers words were still in my head my dad has colon cancer and would be operated on the next day. It was a devastating diagnosis, but there was hope that the cancer was contained and could be removed entirely. I tried not to consider the other scenarios.
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Caregiving of a Parent After Surgery
Author: Lynn Osborne
As I hung up the phone, my mothers words were still in my head my dad has colon cancer and would be operated on the next day. It was a devastating diagnosis, but there was hope that the cancer was contained and could be removed entirely. I tried not to consider the other scenarios.
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