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Featured ArticleAs you watched the news about hurricanes last season, you may have asked yourself, "What can I do?" And in quiet moments you might have wondered,"What if it were me?" Read more Display Articles by Title | Author | Newest All Communicating Articles
10 Real-Life Strategies for Dementia Caregiving As caregivers, we often use intuition to help us decide what to do. No one ever gave us lessons on how to relate to someone with memory loss. Unfortunately, dealing with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias is counterintuitive. That is, often the right thing to do is exactly opposite that which seems like the right thing to do. Read more
Caregiving is a Two-Way Street By Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., F.A.C.S. Not too long ago, caregivers and loved ones would come into the doctor's office with lines of questioning that began with "What should we do?" More often these days we're hearing conversations starting with "Do you think we should?" Read more
Communicating With an Elderly Loved One Communicating with a loved one with a brain disorder can indeed be challenging. Finding the right words and getting your point across are difficult under normal circumstances. This difficulty is often compounded by your role as a caregiver. And although there are no easy solutions, following some basic guidelines should ease communication and lower levels of stress both for you and for the care recipient. Read more
Expressing your Love to a Sick or Disabled Loved One The act of caring for a loved one who is sick or disabled is a way of saying, "I love you." Just as there are many languages spoken on the planet, so, too, there are languages of love. The languages of love are not always expressed in words-they are expressed in many different ways. Read more
As you watched the news about hurricanes last season, you may have asked yourself, "What can I do?" And in quiet moments you might have wondered,"What if it were me?" Read more
Helping Your Loved One Accept a Move By Lori Culwell What to do when your loved one can't accept the fact that they're getting older? Read more
By Carolyn Anderson, M.S.W., G.C.M. As an adult child, you may begin to notice that your aging parents require more assistance and increasingly look to you for information and advice. Read more
Tips for Getting Your Loved One to go to the Doctor "Me? Go to the doctor? Are you kidding?" If you are a caregiver, you have probably heard that sentence, or variations of it, from your loved one. Read more
Understanding our Loved One's Emotions as They Age We've all heard the saying, "the only constant is change." As we care for aging loved ones, change affects all aspects of their lives and our lives. Read more
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