Caring for Aging Parents is NOT a Family Affair Two in five caregivers care for or have cared for a parent. Only one in 10 (of the 83% who have siblings) say they share equally in [...]
Common Sense Musings – Caregivers’ Diet, Exercise, and Sleep* Want to lose weight? In a world of quick weight-loss programs, it took me six-years to lose 20 pounds. Whe[...]
Professional caregivers and family caregivers perform vital functions that often go unrewarded. As a society we must take steps to ensure caregiving is recognized, rewarded, and co[...]
Signs It’s Time to Move Your Loved One into a Care Facility Guest article by Ashley Uhler Many caregivers for people with dementia want to care for their loved one at home. H[...]
Exercise, Not Pills to Prevent Alzheimer’s We can do the “hard” work now with the goal of prevention. Or we can struggle finding ways to live our lives with demen[...]
Size Doesn’t Matter – Mighty Small Does Nassim Haramein, founder of the Resonance Science Foundation* posted a video of the magnified impact of something so small it ba[...]
There’s been a lot of attention paid to getting enough sleep. If we read enough of the published articles about sleep, five-hour sleepers are damaging their brains. By not al[...]
This is the kind of “dirty” humor only caregivers will appreciate. In this case, the parties include two caregivers and a person with Alzheimer’s getting ready fo[...]
Helpful Resource for Caregivers and CERT Members There’s so much to do each day in a caregiver’s life, it’s hard to make time for one more thing, like preparing f[...]
The Caregiver’s Voice Without A Voice After presenting two keynote addresses at three conferences and five workshops, I barely had a voice for the presentation below. If you [...]
Like the wisdom contained in the heart of this 1,500-year-old Wally Waldron tree on Mt. Baden Powell in the San Gabriel Mountains, these curated article excerpts provide inspiratio[...]
Earlier this week, I reflected on the 18th anniversary of my father’s passing. He died in 2001 on March 31. In 1993, on April 1 – April Fools’ Day – my moth[...]
