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Home for the Holidays
Signposts to look for on your caregiving journey and how to have the C-A-R-E Conversation - read recent articles and listen to the podcasts if headed home to see family this holiday season.
Holiday Tech Gadgets for Grandparents (and Caregivers)
If you are a Boomer like me, you will remember the hit 60s TV show Get Smart where agent Maxwell Smart uses his shoe as a phone, or the James Bond movies (Sean Connery, Roger Moore era) where a pen or cigarette doubles as a mini rocket launcher. I always wished I...
Diane Keaton: New Bio Offers Lessons on Love, Legacies and Learning to be a Caregiver
This week Diane Keaton published a memoir Then Again which is a wonderful journey through the lives of two women: Diane and her mother, Dorothy Hall. As opposed to some of the Mommie Dearest-type celebrity books, Diane weaves together her life and career with the...
Home for the Holidays – How to Have the Caregiving Conversation
Life is a voyage that is homeward bound. --Herman Melville This holiday season, many of us will be heading home. Back to the place where we grew up, where we learned to ride a bike, where our buried treasures are still in the backyard, where we walk through the...
Helping our Heroes – Veterans and Their Caregivers
After 9/11 many people started wearing American flag lapel pins – it was a show of pride in our country and in our troops who would soon deploy to fight the war on terrorism. While wearing a pin is a great symbol – there are other ways for us to show our support for...
Heroes on the Homefront – Caregivers of Veterans
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty. --Ellen Sturgis Hooper Today is Veterans Day when we honor those who have served our country at home and abroad to ensure our freedom. But it is not just our service men and women who...
Brooke Shields: The Endless Love of Caring for Someone with Alzheimer’s
We remember her as an icon of the 70s and 80s from controversial movies like Pretty Baby and those provocative Calvin Klein ads (“You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.”). In recent years she has reinvented herself as a TV star (Lipstick...
National Caregiver Month Kicks Off With the Caregiver Bill of Rights
November is the start of National Family Caregiver Month and to celebrate the 65 million Americans caring for a loved one who has a chronic illness, a disability or whose age requires more help, I thought I would present my 10 ideas for the Caregiver Bill of Rights....
Celebrate National Caregiver Month
November is National Caregiver Month - watch for special blogs, videos and other activities all month celebrating our 65 million family caregivers.
Caregiving’s Tricks and Treats
In preparation for Halloween, I felt it was time to show that caregiving for an older loved one does not have to be something scary like Freddy or Zombies or Clowns (yes – like Carrie Bradshaw I’m one of those people who are really terrified of clowns). In order to...
Reese’s Accident Sheds Light on Older Drivers and Technology That Can Help Keep Us Safe
Today, Reese Witherspoon showed her compassion by announcing she would not press charges against the older driver who hit the Academy Award-winning actress as she jogged in Santa Monica, California over a month ago. Thankfully Reese’s story does not have a...