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Caregiving During COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has complicated lives around the world, including caregivers who care for loved ones Coronavirus has limited our ability to visit those we care for in nursing homes or assisted living facilities and in some cases, forced caregivers to provide…
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Are You Doing Too Much? Here’s How to Avoid ‘Helicopter Caregiving’
As a caregiver, it's natural to be tuned in, protective, and taking an active interest in what's going on with your loved ones at any given time. It starts innocently enough as the caregiver tries to do a good job taking care of older parents, looking after all his or...
5 Wintertime Safety Tips for Caregivers
Winter brings a fresh set of challenges for caregivers and their charges. Learning how to help an aging parent or other loved ones during this season is critical to keeping them happier and healthier. For example, if you're taking your loved one to an appointment or...
Freeze-Free Fitness Fun: Helping Elderly Parents Stay Active During Winter
One of the best ways you can help your elderly parents stay healthy is to encourage them to stay active. No matter what time of year, engaging in regular physical activity provides a much-needed physical and mental health boost. Staying [1] active is a great way...
Practical and Gentle Stress-Relief Techniques for Caregivers
Caregiver [1] stress comes with the territory. Taking care of someone you love who has suffered serious injury, disability, or illness is rewarding and honorable. But there's a physical and emotional toll that can be devastating if you don't know how to manage...
Creative Crafting: Making a Memory Book With Your Loved One
There's more to taking care of your elderly parents than the typical tasks and responsibilities that go with caregiving. In fact, taking a break to do something fun and creative can benefit all of you by relieving stress and giving you time to bond. Additionally,...
Therapeutic Tunes: How Can Music Help Seniors?
In a letter to one of his fans, jazz musician Louis [1] Armstrong wrote, “Music is life itself.” Ask those with a deep appreciation of music and they'll agree. There's more to music than a collection of notes and chords. It evokes emotion and helps people...
5 Tips for Providing Supportive Long-Distance Caregiving
Distance doesn't determine whether you can take an active role in supporting the people you love. Proximity isn't required to provide emotional support or to offer financial help like paying bills and balancing accounts. You might also arrange in-home care for aging...
5 Simple, Senior-Friendly Cell Phones for Keeping in Touch
For seniors, a cell phone that is easy to use can be a lifeline, putting help in an emergency right at hand and helping them stay connected with family and friends. Although all cell phones make it easy to keep in touch when you're not together, they're not all...
Ways for Caregivers to Take Time for Themselves
Airlines are renowned for walking passengers through the emergency procedures before takeoff. One of the most important? Putting the oxygen mask on yourself before helping the people around you. There’s a good reason for that. If there’s an issue with oxygen levels...
Telehealth Simplifies Support for Elderly Parents and Their Caregivers
Overall, seniors are living longer and a growing number have a strong desire to stay in their homes. This is something the more than 41 [1] million Americans who are caregivers are dealing with right now. Helping aging parents and providing the in-home care...
Shared Laughter Connects Us (not to mention the proven health benefits)
by Debra Hallisey, Advocate for Mom and Dad Right about now laughter and connection are at the top of my daily self-care list. Is there anything better than sharing a belly laugh with someone? Not much in my opinion. I recently had the chance to visit with friends. We...
Quick & Easy Happiness Boosters for Family Caregivers
From Happy Healthy Caregiver Caregiving can be emotionally and physically draining. Managing the crisis of the day while juggling your life can be exhausting and time to ourselves is a precious gift. Below are little ‘happiness boosters’ you can incorporate into your...
Time Out for Caregivers
While taking care of a loved one can be rewarding, it can also be physically and emotionally draining for the caregiver. According to AARP*, one in five caregivers in the U.S. report a high level of physical strain resulting from caregiving (19%), while two in five...
Caregiver Support
Caregivers are often suddenly thrust into caring for their loved ones. Creating a support network and caregiving team with family, friends, and other service providers can help set you and your loved one up for success along the upcoming journey. Tips: 1. Set up a...
5 Tips for Providing Supportive Long-Distance Caregiving
Distance doesn't determine whether you can take an active role in supporting the people you love. Proximity isn't required to provide emotional support or to offer financial help like paying bills and balancing accounts. You might also arrange in-home care for aging...
5 Simple, Senior-Friendly Cell Phones for Keeping in Touch
For seniors, a cell phone that is easy to use can be a lifeline, putting help in an emergency right at hand and helping them stay connected with family and friends. Although all cell phones make it easy to keep in touch when you're not together, they're not all...
Telehealth Simplifies Support for Elderly Parents and Their Caregivers
Overall, seniors are living longer and a growing number have a strong desire to stay in their homes. This is something the more than 41 [1] million Americans who are caregivers are dealing with right now. Helping aging parents and providing the in-home care...
Creating a Safe Environment for In-Home Elderly Care
More seniors are choosing to age in place, staying at home instead of moving into an assisted living facility. But independent living can only be successful with a strong support system and an environment that's safe and secure. Seniors are prone to specific hazards....
Despite The Stress, Caregiving ‘Very Meaningful’
By Working Daughter In the Working Daughter community, we talk about how two different things can be true at the same time. Like when a sibling finally steps up and helps out with caregiving but… struggles with it. We may be grateful for the support, but also...
No, Caring For Your Parents Is Not “Parenting”
By Working Daughter Caring for an aging parent is often referred to as a role reversal when the parent becomes the child and the adult child becomes the parent. It’s an understandable analogy; adult children are often called on to help their parents with activities of...
Writing a Self-Care Plan or Your Own Care Instructions
By Happy Healthy Caregiver As family caregivers, we write care plans for our care recipients. As parents, we share our children’s routines with babysitters. As committed employees, we draft transition plans and instructions when we leave work for a few days. What we...
Sleep Your Way to Better Health
By Happy Healthy Caregiver Sleep is often the forgotten component of a healthy lifestyle. When I used to think about health improvement, eating nutritious food and exercise is what immediately came to mind. I’ve learned there is actually another important component to...
How To Talk To Your Siblings About Your Aging Parents
By Working Daughter Eldercare is challenging enough on its own. Then throw in family dynamics and the complexity increases. Unequal distribution of work. Multiple and conflicting opinions. Varying degrees of skill and compassion. Siblings, and in-laws and long lost...
5 Tips For Choosing How To Spend Your Time When Your Life Is Overloaded
by Working Daughter If you are a member of the sandwich generation, one of the millions of women raising kids, caring for an aging parent, and trying to earn a living, your life is a series of constant choices. Choices that often feel impossible to make. Stay late and...
5 Simple, Senior-Friendly Cell Phones for Keeping in Touch
For seniors, a cell phone that is easy to use can be a lifeline, putting help in an emergency right at hand and helping them stay connected with family and friends. Although all cell phones make it easy to keep in touch when you're not together, they're not all...
Ways for Caregivers to Take Time for Themselves
Airlines are renowned for walking passengers through the emergency procedures before takeoff. One of the most important? Putting the oxygen mask on yourself before helping the people around you. There’s a good reason for that. If there’s an issue with oxygen levels...
Creating a Safe Environment for In-Home Elderly Care
More seniors are choosing to age in place, staying at home instead of moving into an assisted living facility. But independent living can only be successful with a strong support system and an environment that's safe and secure. Seniors are prone to specific hazards....
How To Initiate Difficult Conversations With Your Aging Parents
by Working Daughter Initiating certain conversations with our aging parents can be intimidating. Whether the topic is giving up driving, moving to a senior living community, accepting more help, or adhering to doctor’s orders, just thinking about broaching the...
Maybe This Is Why Our Parents Reject Our Help
by Working Daughter It is so frustrating when our parents don’t accept our help or listen to our advice, isn’t it? We expect our teenagers not to listen to us, but our parents, shouldn’t they know better? It doesn’t seem so. Almost daily, a member of the Working...
Fun Things for Caregivers to Do with Their Loved Ones
Amid the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it’s all too easy to get caught up in must-do tasks and forget the power of having a little fun. With everything else you have to do, it could even feel like a luxury you don’t have time to enjoy. But having fun with your...
Despite The Stress, Caregiving ‘Very Meaningful’
By Working Daughter In the Working Daughter community, we talk about how two different things can be true at the same time. Like when a sibling finally steps up and helps out with caregiving but… struggles with it. We may be grateful for the support, but also...
No, Caring For Your Parents Is Not “Parenting”
By Working Daughter Caring for an aging parent is often referred to as a role reversal when the parent becomes the child and the adult child becomes the parent. It’s an understandable analogy; adult children are often called on to help their parents with activities of...
Writing a Self-Care Plan or Your Own Care Instructions
By Happy Healthy Caregiver As family caregivers, we write care plans for our care recipients. As parents, we share our children’s routines with babysitters. As committed employees, we draft transition plans and instructions when we leave work for a few days. What we...
How To Talk To Your Siblings About Your Aging Parents
By Working Daughter Eldercare is challenging enough on its own. Then throw in family dynamics and the complexity increases. Unequal distribution of work. Multiple and conflicting opinions. Varying degrees of skill and compassion. Siblings, and in-laws and long lost...