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CaregiverLife Radio – The Importance of Long Term Care Planning
Click here to join me Thursday from 10-11am (CST) for CaregiverLife Radio Topic: The Importance of Long Term Care Planning Guest: Sandy Essex About Sandy: Sandy Essex is an independent LTC planning specialist. She owns a company called Best Coverage, … Continue reading
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Tagged aging parents, boomers, caregiving, health care, Healthcare, healthcare, long term, long term care insurance
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Surrender to Lower Your Stress – By Dave Balch
The life of a caregiver can be pretty stressful. (That sentence is a candidate for the Nobel Prize of understatement.) Everyone’s story is different, but the resulting stress is pretty much the same. I hope that my story will resonate with … Continue reading
CaregiverLife Radio – Managing Stress
Click here to join me today for CaregiverLife Radio from 10-11am (CST) Topic: Stress Management Guest: Dave Balch Dave Balch has a unique, inspiring, and loving story to share, coupled with the experience, desire, and ability to share it. Dave Balch supported … Continue reading
Posted in aging, boomers, caregiving, chronic conditions, eldercare, health care, work/life/flex, working caregiver
Tagged aging, boomers, cancer, caregiving, caregiving and stress, chronic conditions, eldercare, health care, healthcare, Stress management, Stress of Caregiving, work/life/flex, working caregiver
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Honesty and Empowerment
We’ve all heard the phrase “honesty is the best policy” and, for the most part, it’s true. Now there are certain exceptions to this rule, for example if your spouse asks you if her pants make her look fat, I … Continue reading
Posted in aging, boomers, caregiving, disabilities, eldercare, work/life/flex, working caregiver
Tagged aging, aging parents, boomers, caregiving, caregiving and stress, disabilities, eldercare, empowerment, future care, healthcare, home health, home safety, planning to care for parents, work/life/flex, working caregiver
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Guest Blog: Jump to it – How Certain Exercises Help Prevent Falls in the Elderly
By Sarah Jennings When it comes to ailments that afflict our golden generation, accidental falls rank right up there with heart attacks and strokes in terms of both frequency and severity. Falls amongst the elderly are a significant public health … Continue reading
Posted in aging, boomers, caregiving, eldercare, elders, encouragement, healthy living
Tagged aging, boomers, brookdale, caregiving, caregiving and stress, eldercare, elders, encouragement, exercise, fall prevention, healthcare, healthy aging, healthy living
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The Billion Dollar Employee Crisis
This week I had the distinction of speaking at the Illinois Society of Human Resource Managers (SHRM) conference on the effect of elder-care on the workplace. As I finished my presentation an attendee approached and as she did the tears … Continue reading
You Can’t Handle the Truth
Recently, while facilitating a caregiver workshop, I asked the caregivers how they were REALLY doing. Each shared with me how honored and privileged they were to care for their elderly parents. However; when I shared the strain I had felt … Continue reading
Posted in aging, boomers, health care, work/life/flex
Tagged aging, boomers, elderly, health care, healthcare, healthcare crisis, support, work/life/flex
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Managing Difficult Conversations
Last year one of my family members, due to a prescription happy physician, was on several medications that had changed her personality from friendly to flat, as well as challenged her decision-making skills leading to 2 car accidents (she had … Continue reading
Posted in aging, eldercare, elders, encouragement, health care, making a plan, sandwich generation, work/life/flex, working caregiver
Tagged aging, caregiving and stress, difficult conversations, eldercare, elders, encouragement, health care, Healthcare, healthcare, intervention, making a plan, medications, physicians, sandwich generation, support, work/life/flex, working caregiver
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Guest Post: Caregiving for Senior Mesothelioma Patients
The words seem to come out of nowhere. “I have mesothelioma.” When those three words sputter across your loved one’s lips, life changes in ways you don’t know how to imagine. A mesothelioma diagnosis is often terminal. Some patients try … Continue reading
Posted in caregiving, chronic conditions, encouragement, health care, hospice and end of life care, work/life/flex, working caregiver
Tagged asbestos, cancer, caregiver, caregiving, caregiving and stress, chronic conditions, encouragement, family, health care, healthcare, hospice and end of life care, In Home Caregiving, lung, mesothelioma, support, work/life/flex, working caregiver
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Tips For The Sandwich Generation
People in the Sandwich Generation are struggling to meet the needs of their growing or adult children and the needs of their aging parents while usually managing a hectic work schedule as well. Anyone who is sandwiched between two generations … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, baby boomers, boomers, caregivers, caregiving, eldercare, encouragement, family, health care, healthcare, sandwich generation, sandwiched between children and parents, work/life/flex, working caregiver
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Guest Post: BECOME A PARTNER WITH YOUR PHYSICIAN
When I worked in hospitals, I noticed many patients had trouble becoming an active participant in their healthcare, for various reasons. To address this concern, I spoke to Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Chief Medical Editor of NBC News and my colleague … Continue reading
A Crack in the Rock
For the Chinese 2008 was the Year of the Rat, for me that year can best be described as “The Year of the Crisis”. Some highlights include my step daughters canceled wedding 2 weeks before the event, my best friends … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, boomers, boundaries, caregivers, caregiving, caregiving and stress, exhaustion, health care, healthcare, healthy living, sandwich generation, self-care, support, taking care of yourself, work/life/flex, working caregiver
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Expanding the Positive
In my blog https://theworkingcaregiver.org/2012/03/31/what-you-focus-on-expands I shared the story of my friend Holly and her positive attitude in the face of terminal illness. Today I want to share some tips to facilitate focusing on the positive. Tips for expanding the positive … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, boomers, caregiving, caregiving and stress, eldercare, encouragement, healthcare, healthy living, just stuff, living a healthy life, positive, self-care, taking care of yourself, work/life/flex, working caregiver
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Did Senator Mark Kirk have Warning Signs of a Stroke
The sad news of Senator Mark Kirk’s stroke at age 52 brings to light the reality that age does not play a factor when it comes to this affliction. Every year, stroke strikes approximately 795,000 Americans – killing 144,000 and … Continue reading
Mom Needs A Caregiver in the Home: Who the Heck do I choose?
If you ever face a situation when a loved one needs help at home, the process of convincing them to accept the help is a difficult one. Most seniors love to be independent, no matter how difficult it is for … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, caregiver, caregiver in the home, caregiving, caregiving and stress, caring for mom and dad, caring for my parents, eldercare, healthcare, Home Care, how to find an in home caregiver, In Home Caregiving, in home caregiving, susan avello
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