Archive for May 2018

More at… https://rx4caregivers.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/ditch-that-grudge/ One of the MOST important things I’ve learned in working with older friends & their families is the drip drip drip toxin that is holding onto grudges.  One son still lambasts his grandfather’s “Victorian” principles – the man had died fourteen years before his gran… Read More

More at… http://www.caregivingmadeeasy.com/caregiver-struggling/ If You Are An Overwhelmed Caregiver, Here Are Some Strategies To Tame The Overwhelm   It isn’t unusual for the caregiver’s needs to get ignored. Everyone is so focused on the caree’s needs being covered that we forget to think about the caregiver. The problem is, a healthy caregiver can g… Read More

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Stay in the present moment, not the past or future.

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More at… http://thecaregiverspace.org/what-i-learned-from-being-a-caregiver/ One day I was busy driving my mom to a radiation oncology doctor’s appointment and we were running 15 minutes late. I was stressing out because it took my dad 30 minutes to put on his shirt and he literally thought he was the King of England. He had just been released from neurological rehabilitat… Read More

More at… https://paulettahansel.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/her-words/ When we moved Mom from the small ranch house she bought after our dad’s death into the dementia care unit of a nursing home, my sister got the job of cleaning out her papers from the maple desk that had been in every house I remember. It was, like the Tardis, bigger on the inside. … Continue… Read More