You may be trying to decide if you should bring your family member from a care facility into your home or you may have come to the realization that it is time to get help taking care of a family member. This is the perfect time to start doing the research on home-based care and […]
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Hurricane Season: May 15 – November 30 Having a plan for hurricane season becomes next level critical when you are caring for a family member. Dad is 98 and we have a plan A, B, C and D, to cover a host of possible scenarios. We have learned a few lessons from the best teachers.
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Medication was a serious subject I found no humor in caregiving until I pulled back the curtain and saw it for what it was. It was seriously hard and at times seriously funny. Language is also a funny thing. How did the word “seriously” come to mean “very”? This language confused my French students who
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In sickness and in health Wedding vows don’t include the sickness and health of a spouse’s parents. I suppose it’s implied, but it wasn’t something that we considered or discussed until we were confronted with choices. Joe and I were like a small business partnership. We had been collaborating on life’s twists and turns and
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Memory lane As I tripped down Dad’s memory lane, I found he and I, arm in arm, skipping to the beat of a familiar tune. As I read more of Dad’s journal entries, I was astonished and saddened at how unhappy he seemed. Caregiving has received due attention recently. It is not an easy path
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Mistakes are going to happen during a hospitalization. Misunderstandings are inevitable. Mishaps are sure to occur at home following a hospitalization. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt. It would be wonderful if we could learn everything we needed to know from the
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Discussing end-of-life is not comfortable, and our society does not prepare us well for conversations about death. It is a part of life, but like aging is often not faced until it is a forced confrontation. It is never too early to have a heart-to-heart conversation with your parents about their end-of-life wishes. In fact,
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Why is this so hard? Many adult children encountered resistance to their requests for the first time when they learned that parents were not heeding the advice to practice physical distancing. It offered a glimpse into the future and an opportunity to better understand the relationship dynamic, the competing motivations and develop skills to manage
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