Caregiver Self-Care: The Key to Avoiding BurnoutYou have probably heard airline staff tell you that, in the event of an emergency, you should place your own oxygen mask on first before helping others. This is good...
How Are You Treated Differently Since Diagnosis?Receiving a life-changing diagnosis, like Alzheimer's, can be incredibly challenging not only for those receiving the diagnosis but also for their loved ones. Just as you may be adjusting to...
Caregiver Self-Care: The Key to Avoiding BurnoutYou have probably heard airline staff tell you that, in the event of an emergency, you should place your own oxygen mask on first before helping others. This is good...
How Are You Treated Differently Since Diagnosis?Receiving a life-changing diagnosis, like Alzheimer's, can be incredibly challenging not only for those receiving the diagnosis but also for their loved ones. Just as you may be adjusting to...
Caregiver Self-Care: The Key to Avoiding BurnoutYou have probably heard airline staff tell you that, in the event of an emergency, you should place your own oxygen mask on first before helping others. This is good...
How Are You Treated Differently Since Diagnosis?Receiving a life-changing diagnosis, like Alzheimer's, can be incredibly challenging not only for those receiving the diagnosis but also for their loved ones. Just as you may be adjusting to...
Alzheimer's Stigma and Finding SupportGrowing up, I remember my mother making small Christmas trees out of styrofoam balls and toothpicks. She dipped them in green paint and added glitter. Then she would deliver them to...
What's the Best Approach to Communication?People sometimes come up to me and ask for advice on the best way to communicate with someone in the later stages of Alzheimer's. It is a tough question. How...
Support Groups for CaregiversBeing a caregiver can take a lot of energy, especially for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease. Caregivers face not only the general stressors of caregiving but also deal with...
Alzheimer's Care Resources: Help and Support through ProgressionAsking for help is not an easy thing to do, especially as we get older. We are taught to learn to do things ourselves, figure it out, and shoulder the...
Communication Strategies for Caregivers: The Art of Asking for HelpBeing the primary caregiver to people with Alzheimer's is a difficult job, especially if you feel like the only person in your loved one's life who is doing any work...
Knowing Better, Doing BetterI'm just gonna come out and say it: I am far from being the perfect caregiver. I make mistakes and fall short all the time but guess what? It is...
Superwoman Syndrome: The Reality of Alzheimer's CaregivingLook up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a… caregiver suffering from Superwoman Syndrome. Can you relate to this? In the last year of caregiving through...
The End Stages of Alzheimer's: Caregiver Self-Care TipsMom and I have been best friends since I could remember and when she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's 10 years ago, our friendship became closer than ever. We started...
Hiring Professional Alzheimer's Care and Managing Caregiver GuiltAfter being my mom's part-time caregiver for a few years, I was near the point of having a nervous breakdown. I decided that for my own mental health, I could...
