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Celebrate Caregivers During Read Across America Day
As a book lover, I celebrate Read Across America Day (March 2) every year by creating my book list for the coming year and settling on the couch with my first pick. I love this day because it is a reminder that although as a society we may crave the visual...
How to be a Caregiving Superstar!
In honor of Oscar season, we have developed these tips to keep you in peak performance shape as a caregiver. If you are a caring for an older loved one, a spouse who has a chronic illness or a child with disabilities or special needs, you are a true superstar. But,...
Caregiving At the Oscars® – 1st Annual CAREY Awards℠
For as long as I can remember I have been in love with the movies. Movies are magic come to life. They transport you and let you escape. They make you feel a range of emotions but mostly they can make you believe. Movies give you hope for better things in a world...
Honoring Our First Lady Caregivers
On President’s Day, we honor two great men who have led this country through its creation and one of its most trying times – namely George Washington and Abraham Lincoln respectively. But, this holiday, I am going to celebrate the women - three of our First Ladies who...
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Caregivers Take Note – Music As Therapy
As Glen Campbell takes the stage at the Grammy Awards tomorrow night and accepts his Lifetime Achievement Award, he does so as one of the more than five million Americans diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. What is inspiring about the 75-year-old Campbell’s Grammy...
All Hail the U.S. Govt. for Alzheimer’s and Caregiver Support
When I read the recent news that the U.S government announced immediate plans to fund $50 million for Alzheimer’s research and provide another $130 million to include caregiver support and education over the next two years, I thought it was a great first step in a...
The Super Bowl of Love – One Woman’s Story of Tackling Dementia
As millions tune in to the Super Bowl this Sunday, I am cheering for one football wife who tackled her husband’s dementia with a game plan to keep their lives as normal as possible and in the process found her calling as a caregiving advocate. Her passionate plea to...
Heart Health for Caregivers
It is February and while winter’s chill has gripped some parts of the country, this is the month we celebrate warm, heartfelt love. While most of you may think I mean Valentine’s Day, I am actually focused on those family members performing that “labor of love” –...
How to Keep the Promise We Make To Ourselves This Year
Answer: One Resolution – 52 Chances to Make It Work – Me Time Monday℠ for Caregivers Ahhh the New Year is here – the hectic pace of the holidays is over, the frenzy over buying gifts and seeing friends and family is done (at least for another 12 months). You can...
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...
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....
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...
Think Pink – It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month!
Pink is typically associated with Spring, Schiaparelli or that fabulous Audrey Hepburn movie, Funny Face. And, while it is the color for princesses and ballerinas, it is also the color of Breast Cancer Awareness and the Fight for the Cure which we celebrate this...
Caregivers Who Are Changing the Game: Girls on the Gridiron – Taking the Fight Against Alzheimer’s to the Field
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. – Vince Lombardi It is officially fall and fall means football season – fans, cheerleaders, Friday night lights, afternoon tailgaters, Monday Night...
And the Awards Goes to . . . Third Annual CARE-Y Awards™ – Caregivers on TV
For the last three years I have bestowed my own version of the Emmy Awards – something I call the CARE-Y Awards™ that acknowledges the TV programming that showcases caregivers and caregiving situations. I also have bestowed honors on those TV personalities and talent...