Every New Year’s Eve I spend a few minutes reflecting back on last year’s highlights. Following is a month by month review of those high notes for me personally and for Caregiving Club including: Kicking off Caregiving Club TV with our red carpet celebrity...
As families gather for Thanksgiving this week and throughout the holiday season, it’s an important time to pay attention to some early warning signs you are about to get on the caregiving expressway. If you live long-distance from older parents, in-laws or other loved...
On November 5, 2012, Brooke Shields lost her mom, Teri (age 79) who had long suffered from dementia. Here is the article Sherri Snelling wrote in 2011 about Brooke’s challenges as a Sandwich Generation caregiver. We remember her as an icon of the ‘70s and ‘80s from...
SharecareNow released its Top 10 Alzheimer's Influencers and named Caregiving Club CEO Sherri Snelling #4 on the list. Click here to read more about the Influencers list and Sharecare, online health and wellness site created by Dr. Oz.
SharecareNow, a partnership between Sharecare and powered by WCG, released is 2012 Top 10 Influencers on Alzheimer's disease and named Caregiving Club CEO, Sherri Snelling, #4 on the list. The Influencers List highlights individuals that are most effectively driving...
In recognition of National Depression Screening Day today, I shine the light on the dark shadows of caregiver depression. According to authors Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, depression is one of the five stages of grief. As a...
All caregiving can be exhausting, frustrating, overwhelming and stressful but for the caregivers of those with a mental health issue the societal stigma you face creates additional challenges. Addressing the need for greater understanding for mental illness,...
For the last four years I have bestowed my own version of the Emmy Awards – something I call the CARE-Y Awards™ that acknowledges both the reel stars and programs in the past year’s TV offerings and the real life caregivers who appear on TV. Here are my top picks for...
It is officially fall and fall means football season – the fans, cheerleaders, Friday night lights, afternoon tailgaters, and Monday Night Football. When we think of football – we think of the gladiators of the gridiron. However, one of the best football games this...
Sherri Snelling, our Caregiving Club CEO, spoke to actors Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker about their journey in caring for Jill’s mother who has dementia. At the heart of their story is family and how “eat, pray, love” may be their new catchphrase when it comes...
My favorite cartoonist the late Charles Schulz of Peanuts fame wrote that, “Happiness is a warm puppy.” I wonder if he knew that happiness is just the start when it comes to enhancing the lives of older loved ones in nursing homes or assisted living, terminal...
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Almost 50 years ago, the Beatles hit Number One on the Billboard charts with the song Help! – a perfect anthem for this...