Caregiver Enemy #1
When a caregiver support group leader called and asked me to speak to her group, she poured out her heart to me. “I feel like I’ve lost compassion for my…
When a caregiver support group leader called and asked me to speak to her group, she poured out her heart to me. “I feel like I’ve lost compassion for my…
Guest post by Lulu Flatt My 90-year-old mother took a fall on her lower back and was bedridden for three months when I first stepped up as caregiver for her.…
In nursing school, we had to write care plans for our patients that included potential as well as actual problems. One problem we didn’t have to think twice about was…
Guest post by Theresa Rowe Love legacies are built over a lifetime, shaped by how we love others and invest in generations to come. It was no surprise that everyone…
I cared for my parents for six years and my mother-in-law for another four. Now I’m caring for a relative with Alzheimer's. As a former intensive care nurse, I guess…
Guest post by Linda W. Yezak I’ve never had children of my own, so until my elderly mother needed me, I’d never really been a caretaker. Then, in 2020—right in…