Caregivers
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Long-Distance Caregiving
Providing care for a loved one that is not close to home can be difficult. Fortunately, long-distance caregiving is not unusual and there are plenty of options to help care...
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How To Support a Friend Who Is Grieving
Marina Mails, NCC, LPC Bereavement Counselor II It seems that most of us are nervous when talking about a recent death and the pain of grief that follows. Social interaction...
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Anxiety and Caregiving
Marina Mails, NCC, LPC Bereavement Counselor II As a caregiver for your loved one you likely face daily anxiety-provoking situations. Perhaps you are watching someone that you love decline and...
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Caregiver Depression: A Silent Health Crisis
One of today’s all-too silent health crises is caregiver depression. A conservative estimate reports that 20% of family caregivers suffer from depression, twice the rate of the general population. Of...
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Caregiving with Love: Five Tips to Better Healing
Whether it’s your wife or husband or child, or a relative or close friend you are caring for, it is paramount that you become the best caregiver possible for your loved one....
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Calendars: A Caregiver’s Best Friend
Organized schedules for caregivers are extremely important. Some people have an innate need and skill of being organized – others do not. 5 Calendar Tips to Keep you Organized to...
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Who cares for the caregiver?
Marie Bidetti carefully sorts the medications and places them into pillboxes on her kitchen table. The containers are labeled with different times so she knows when to deliver each medicine...
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Staying Balanced
We all have the best intentions when taking on the role of caregiver for a loved one facing advanced illness. In many ways it is a gift we can give...
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Tips For Bedside Care
The following are some bedside care tips provided by The Hospice Patients Alliance… Making arrangements for Assistance: If you have even a few friends or family members who are willing to help...
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