Life As a Caregiver: How to Make Tough Care Decisions
Many of us feel honored to provide care for our aging parents or ill spouses, but this honor can also present serious...
End-of-life
The Aftermath of Long-Term Caregiving: Is Stress Your New Normal?
Often, long-term caregivers wonder if their lives will ever return to normal. The short answer is no, at least for most of...
Caregiving: A Noble Legacy To Be Proud Of
Have you thought about what you’d want your obituary to say about you? I hadn’t until I was recently asked to write...
Breaking the News That a Loved One is Going on Hospice Care
When the paperwork was finally signed to get hospice care for my dad, I was grateful. There would now be a routine...
Reconciling Grief & Relief When the Loved One You Cared for Dies
When my mother died in a local nursing home, my “career” of visiting this exceptional facility nearly every day for almost 15...
Hindsight Can Be a Blessing or a Curse for Caregivers
They say hindsight is 20/20. But things from the past that may seem “clear” to you now can still be distorted by...
8 Ways to Lower Caregiver Stress
Most of us lead frantic lives. That’s the nature of the world today. When you add to that the job—for it is...
A Common Caregiver Confession: “I Secretly Wish My Ill Loved One Would Die”
Every so often, someone on the AgingCare Caregiver Forum will admit that they secretly wish the person they’re caring for would pass...
Music Therapy Can Increase Quality of Life for Those in Hospice
For many, music from certain eras can bring back memories of better times. For others, music soothes anxiety or gets them pumped...
The Heartbreaking Plea of ‘I Just Want to Go Home’
Note: Updated knowledge includes the fact that the person living with dementia is just seeking comfort. Words are difficult and “home” for...
