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Spousal Caregiving 101: Navigating the Shifts in Love and Responsibility
From Partner to Caregiver: Redefining Your Role Spousal caregiving is no ordinary act of support. It encompasses profound emotional changes, especially when dementia or chronic illness challenges old marital routines. The caregiving spouse experiences anticipatory loss, while the care recipient may seem distant or apathetic. Inevitably, intimacy and the balance of partnership shift, creating a […]
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Engaging Activities for Seniors with Dementia
Activities! And more activities for people with advanced dementia Want to break up the day for your loved one with dementia? Here are some ideas from activity directors who run memory care facilities for people who are functioning on a low level. They are simple, engaging, and fun. Most involve one or two senses. Seeing […]
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Hanukkah Fun For Multiple Generations
The eight days of Hanukkah are ample time to celebrate as a family as well as with neighbors and friends. This is the holiday when Jewish people celebrate two things that happened during the time of the Second Temple. One is the victory over the Syrian Greeks who sought to destroy the Jewish people and […]
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Tips for the Holidays with an Older Adult with Dementia
With care and consideration, your mother can enjoy the family gatherings and festivities at this time of year. Don’t leave her out and say it will be too much. Think it through and adapt. Here are some suggestions. The seating plan should not place the senior at the head of the table. Spotlighting her is […]
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Turning Holiday Cheer into Ongoing Family Traditions
Everyone is busy with the holidays now. Get-togethers, décor, gifts, and family spirit dominate thoughts and plans, whether you are a caregiver or not. Then come the dreary months of winter with barely a few legal holidays to break up the long stretch of wintry weather. The days are short. The outdoors is uninviting. The […]
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12 Stress Busters for Caregivers around the Holidays
It’s holiday time and the regular demands of caregiving skyrocket now. With Medicare deadlines, end of year medical appointments, and concerns about coverage during the holiday season, you have more things than usual to take care of for your mother’s care. And that’s without adding buying holiday gifts for her to give, planning a holiday […]
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Keeping the Giving in Thanksgiving: A Caregiver’s Concern
Thanksgiving is a day for counting our blessings and celebrating with our generations. We have a picture in our minds of a sumptuous meal complete with turkey, dressing, pumpkin pie, and cranberry sauce with fall colors in a rich tablescape. It’s a time when we share not only food but hopes, milestones, and positivity. It’s […]
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Nine Tips for Hosting your Family During the Holidays
This is for those who are having family celebrations including multiple generations. Having conversation and creating atmosphere makes for a memorable occasion. Keeping everyone at the table instead of serving and clearing will facilitate communication and camaraderie. Nonetheless, getting the space ready and putting it back together again afterwards is a job. That’s why planning, […]
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Inside the Caregiver Body, Mind, and Heart
Nurturing the Heart Behind the Care: Understanding the Emotional Journey of Caregiving Most caregivers are burned out. So, what else is new? When you try to prolong life, health, mood, and medication for someone really sick or feeble, it takes ongoing energy, creativity, attention, and responsiveness. Everyone is telling you to care for yourself. Put […]
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Change your Space to Age in Place Part 1 w/video
Aging in Place Part 1: Empowering Seniors to Live Independently This video was produced in association with PSS, Coming of Age & Caring Professonals, it first appeared here on the PSS Youtube Channel. Introduction and Speaker Background: Today’s presenter, a veteran community activist, Faigie Horowitz MS, has spent decades in social services, both as an […]
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