Recognizing Caregiver Burnout and Attempting to Heal as We Care
Caregiver burnout isn’t something that happens all at once. We all have good days and bad days, which is normal. Eventually, though,...
Burnout
A Book for Employers Who Are Tired of Employee Turnover
Other than disagreements about the merits and challenges of offering paid family leave to employees, we hear precious little about how employers...
Caregiver Burnout is Best Prevented Since Recovery Is Hard on Everyone
Dear Carol: My mom, age 79, has had steadily declining health for several years. Arthritis is a genetic problem in my family,...
Guilty Feelings Plague Caregiver after Harsh Response to Her Mother with Dementia
Dear Carol: My mother with dementia has developed a fixation on the silver she sold years ago, and she repeatedly accuses me of...
Stressed Caregiver for Husband and Parents Asks for Tips to Relax
Dear Carol: I’m taking care of my 68-year-old husband with several serious medical diagnoses, as well as my 97-year-old mother in memory...
The ‘AARP Caregiver Answer Book’ Will Become a Classic
I was honored when asked to provide my thoughts about the then-forthcoming The AARP Caregiver Answer Book by Barry J. Jacobs, PsyD and...
Setting Boundaries with Difficult Elderly Parents
When the family member we are trying to care for is critical, impossible to please or emotionally abusive, long-standing family dynamics are...
Caregiver Stress Is a Given; How to Manage It Is Key
Most of us lead frantic lives. That’s the nature of the world today. When you add to that the job—for it is...
Why People Are Ashamed When They Secretly Wish Their Suffering Loved One Could Die
Every so often, someone on the AgingCare Caregiver Forum will admit that they secretly wish the person they’re caring for would pass...
More Severe than Burnout, Compassion Fatigue is a Danger for Long-term Caregivers
Dear Carol: My parents and in-laws all lived to be very old, with years of physical and cognitive decline. I willingly cared...
