Caregiver stress

When Parents With Dementia Don’t Realize They Need Help

Your once easy-going dad now thinks you’re stealing from him. Your ever-frugal mom is buying odd things she finds on the Internet. You know that these...

Your Caregiving Decisions Are Unique to Your Circumstances: Stand Tall

Normally, all is well in caregiver support groups. People help and comfort one another, offer advice based on what’s worked for them in a...

Caring for Multiple Generations: Looking for Balance

This is how it often happens: You see your parents a lot since you still live in the same community. So, when your mom...

Getting Over the Guilt of Placing a Loved One in a Care Home

If we could control events, most of us would never want our elders to be so sick that they need the care of a nursing...

12 Tips to Help Spousal Caregivers Through Hard Times

WHILE FAMILY MEMBERS providing care for loved ones share many issues, there’s a different emotional dynamic for spousal caregivers than for adult children caring for...

I Want to Go Home: How to Respond

Dear Candid Caregiver (Carol): My Dad is having around-the-clock home care, which was his choice early on when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. He’s...

Feisty Mom Refuses Daughter’s Care

Dear Candid Caregiver(Carol): My 79-year-old mom has been widowed for a little over a year. She’d always depended on Dad to help her because her...

Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories

Caregiver for Multiple Elders Tells It Like It Is

When I first started sharing my stories and looking for others who had similar tales to tell, people tended to be reticent about speaking...

5 Negative Effects of Long-term Caregiving

There are countless positive aspects to long-term caregiving, but those who’ve done it know that there are also negative effects, many lifelong. While some...