Caregiver Survival Tips – Three Ways to Stay Positive By Elaine K. Sanchez Madelyn Kubin was recovering from open-heart surgery. She had osteoporosis, macular degeneration, restless leg syndrome, and severe hearing loss. She lived on a farm six miles from a town of 10,000 people in the middle of Kansas, and she had very little […]
Rep. Joyce Beatty became a stroke survivor in 1999, just after turning 50. She had just returned to her office from a community function and felt faint and strange. She noticed difficulty swallowing, inability to speak and numbness on her left side. She sought help from co-workers, who thought she was either choking or having […]
. Now this is what I’m talking about, You Caregivers have got to take care of YOU FIRST! Put YOUR mask on FIRST, or you won’t be able to help ANYONE. Thank you Geoff and Jenni Gilbert for so beautifully demonstrating this principle, as they were informed that their plane might have a problem, and […]
There are over 100 million caregivers just in the United States, that is roughly one-third of the population. That means that every single one of you probably knows someone who is caring for a loved one that is disabled, elderly, or has some kind of disability. That doesn’t even include all the parents that are […]
Special thanks to Home Instead for this informative article! Dear Friend, In my last Alzheimer’s Reflections email, I asked if you think people look down on dementia sufferers. As I read all of your responses, I felt a mixture of sadness and hope. I felt sadness because you told me about friends who stopped calling […]
