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Home Health Aides: 7 FAQs you need to Know

If you’ve ever wondered exactly what a home health aide does, or what qualifies as home care in...

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Dementia Care: Four Strategies Every Caregiver can Use

Dementia is a serious disease that poses a tremendous challenge for the caregiver. Caring for someone diagnosed with...

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Caregiver Wellness: How Art Therapy can help you Reclaim your Narrative

Being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness (i.e., cancer), a progressive long-term disease (i.e., Alzheimer’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, or...

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Activities to do with your Parent who has Alzheimer’s Dementia

When my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at 87 everything changed.  I could no longer leave it all...

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3 Tips to Administer Self-Care if you’re a First-Time Caregiver

  The cost of hiring a caregiver can be substantial. In fact, cost is one reason why approximately...

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Social Workers Play an Important role in Supporting Caregivers

Caregivers help ensure the care and well-being of senior citizens, those with mental illness, terminal illness, and disabilities....

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Of Meaning, Grit and Gratitude: A Caregiver’s Spiritual Journey

Some would say you learn the most about yourself when persevering through adversity. That grit, a term that...

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Caregiver Wellness: 3 Important Tips to Help you Plan for your Future

No one is guaranteed tomorrow, but regardless of your age or health, you should have a plan in...

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6 Changes to Medicare in 2019: What every Caregiver should know

As our loved one’s grow older they may need help managing their health conditions, treatments, or with Medicare;...

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5 Things you can do to Avoid Caregiver Burnout

Have you been suffering from caregiver burnout recently? You are certainly not alone. Almost every caregiver experiences exhaustion...