JOIN US as we celebrate caregiving and meet the challenges of caring for a loved one on The Dr. Carol Show [TCV Update 5/1/2022 The Dr. Carol Show is now Dr Carol Ministries Podcast] in commemoration of National Family Caregivers Month and National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month in November. I am happy[...]
Guest article by Sage Products People with dementia often suffer from incontinence, but it may have different causes. Sometimes it has a physical cause, such as stress incontinence. But for others, incontinence may be associated with forgetting where the bathroom is located or failing to respond to [...]
Guest article by Ross Blair, CEO of Plan Prescriber The health reform law has made some important changes to Medicare that go into effect in 2012. Whether you’re approaching age 65 or already enrolled in Medicare, the annual enrollment period (AEP) for next year’s Medicare Advantage and prescription[...]
Neurodegenerative Disease Caregivers Needed for Research into Caregiver Grief ATLANTA, GA – The Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA) announces the launch of its second major caregiver research project, “Caregiver Grief in Neurodegenerative Diseases.” This research will explore whe[...]
In this guest post, Jay Kraker, addresses questions often received by Ask The Caregiver’s Voice. Is it okay to get angry? How can I deal with my negative emotions while caregiving? (TCV Ed.) Caregiving can stir up a buffet of negative emotions. In twenty-plus years of caregiving, I’ve felt an[...]
“Navigating the Net Wisely in a Health Crisis” published in the New York Times, generated renewed caregiver and patient interest in the role of the Internet as a credible source of health information. (Link at end of article.) Below are responses to questions sent to Ask The Caregiver[...]
111111 – November 11, 2011 We will experience two dates with A LOT of ONES in November 2011. 11-1-11 11-11-11 Just as we lived through 1-1-11 1-11-11 in January of this year. “They’re just dates,” you may say, completely unimpressed. “That’s fair.” But how a[...]
Nine months after Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Arizona, she accompanied her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly, to the White House for his retirement ceremony. Ronald Brill, four-year caregiver for his wife who is diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment, writes, “I wanted to share the following,[...]
Which website has had over 1.5 billion visits since 1997 and helps patients and their families and friends more easily navigate a serious illness? Twitter? No. FaceBook? No. CaringBridge What? CaringBridge.org hosts over 270,000 personal websites for free for families dealing with a serious illness [...]
In the Face of Pain® Offers Help and Hope for Caregivers Guest post by Lee Woodruff Five years ago, my husband, Bob, was injured by an improvised explosive device while on assignment in Iraq. After he awoke from a five-week-long coma – also known as the longest five weeks of my life – he was [...]
October is Lewy Body Dementia Awareness Month Eight years ago, Angela Taylor had never heard of Lewy body dementia (LBD), the second most common form of progressive dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. So how did this stay-at-home mother of two preschoolers become a nationally-recognized advoca[...]
“As we commemorate the tenth anniversary of the National Family Caregiver Support Program, the U.S. Administration on Aging proclaimed 2011 as The Year of the Caregiver to celebrate the role of family caregivers and to raise awareness of the growing number of people dedicating their lives to c[...]
