Self-care

5 Tips for Keeping Your Brain Healthy While Caregiving

Many of us cope with the stress of caring for someone who has dementia. We agonize over the increasing losses that our...

We’ve all heard that we must first learn to love ourselves before we can love others. Yet, many of us have grown...

Even when family caregivers have access to help, many still come up with excuses to turn down assistance. Learning to accept support...

Life isn’t easy for most people, and it’s not perfect for anybody. Sometimes, as we trudge through the days providing help for...

Jen has been caring for her parents for almost two years and she is quickly approaching caregiver burnout. A close friend booked...

There’s no getting around it: being a family caregiver is bound to impact how you think and who you are as a...

We live in a society that values what we do over who we are. If what we do isn’t highly paid or...

I once visited a caregiver friend and her mother, who had moderate Alzheimer’s disease. At one point during the visit, the mother...

When Caregivers Are Pulled in Too Many Directions: Every caregiver is familiar with the constant nagging feeling that something or someone in...

Dear Carol: My mom, age 79, has had steadily declining health for several years. Arthritis is a genetic problem in my family, so...