Recharge Your Caregiver Energy with These Steps
With the many things you have to do every day as a caregiver, it’s easy to see how your energy can get depleted over time. Here are some steps you can take to revitalize yourself!
The Ins-and-Outs of Successful Caregiving
Here are five insights into the ins-and-outs of successful caregiving that can make your journey more effective and enjoyable.
When a Caregiving Spouse Needs Help
If you're caregiving for a spouse, providing quality care requires that you stay physically and mentally healthy. That may mean asking for some help.
Helping Your Senior Loved One With Their Finances
It can be tough to convince someone they need help, even if all of the indicators are there. For this reason, it is necessary to apply a respectful, gentle approach when helping aging parents with finances. Here's how.
Sandwich Generation Caregiving
The "sandwich generation" comprises those who are taking care of their own children while helping to care for aging parents. For some, this may seem like an unmanageable situation, but here are a few things you can do to help manage the stress.
Signs of Malnutrition in Seniors
Many aging-in-place seniors with malnutrition run the risk of losing their independence for good. If there’s an elderly loved one in your life who may be malnourished here’s how to identify the warning signs, along with ways that you can help.
Ways for Seniors to Stay Social
Sadly, millions of seniors do not socialize like they should. If there is an elderly loved one in your life who has trouble making new friends, here’s how to help them stay connected with others.
How Long Does It Take a Senior to Settle into Receiving Home Care?
Convincing an aging loved one to accept home care isn’t always as easy as it sounds. Once they’ve finally agreed to hire an in-home caregiver, getting them to “stay the course” can oftentimes be just as challenging.
What to do When Siblings and Other Family Members are Not in Close Proximity
If you have made the decision to take on the responsibility of remote caregiving, it is important to stay level headed and hopeful about your ability to best support your elderly loved one. While a certain degree of stress in this process is inevitable, there are ways to make everything run far more smoothly than expected.
Health and Wellness Advice for Caregivers
When your top priority is your loved one’s health and wellbeing, it can feel impossible to justify your own needs. Maintaining your own wellness, however, is the opposite of selfish when someone you love needs long term care.
