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Coping With the Guilt after Placing Your Parent in a Care Facility

Guilt is one emotion that every family caregiver will experience at some point during their journey. When you take on responsibility for...

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How to Talk to the Doctor About Your Aging Parent or Spouse

A frequent problem expressed among family caregivers is that their aging loved ones aren’t honest with their doctors. At home, they may...

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Journaling for Caregivers: Rediscover Yourself and Reclaim Your Life

At some point during your caregiving journey, you may find yourself in a rut. The awareness may come with a birthday, a...

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People Experiencing Dementia Symptoms May Deny Any Concerns

Dear Carol: Do people with dementia deny their disease because of the stigma, or do they just not know they have it?...

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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...

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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...

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Questions to Determine the Impact of Caregiving

Are you prepared to take on the responsibility of caring for a family member? Will you be able to handle the commitment...

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New Caregivers: Tips on Caring for Aging Parents

I have interacted with countless professional and informal caregivers over the years, and I’ve noticed two prominent patterns that characterized my own...

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Coping with Caregiving: The Habit of Emotional Eating

As far back as breast or formula feeding, most of us learned that a sweet taste meant care and comfort. As we...

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What to Do When a Person with Dementia Repeats the Same Things Over and Over

One sign of the aging brain is repeating things more often, especially stories and questions. There are reasons for this that are...

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Coping With the Guilt after Placing Your Parent in a Care Facility

How to Talk to the Doctor About Your Aging Parent or Spouse

Journaling for Caregivers: Rediscover Yourself and Reclaim Your Life

People Experiencing Dementia Symptoms May Deny Any Concerns

Reconciling Grief & Relief When the Loved One You Cared for Dies

Hindsight Can Be a Blessing or a Curse for Caregivers

Questions to Determine the Impact of Caregiving

New Caregivers: Tips on Caring for Aging Parents

Coping with Caregiving: The Habit of Emotional Eating

What to Do When a Person with Dementia Repeats the Same Things Over and Over

Seneca Sense Home: Incontinence Care Made Easy

Egosan Incontinence: Discover the Difference

Memoryboard: Designed by caregivers to help families stay connected

Free Caregiver Training provided by Geriatrician Leslie Kernisan, MD

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