caregiving

Suze Orman Shares Her Cost of Caregiving Story

Suze Orman Shares Her Cost of Caregiving Story

Sherri Snelling talked to America's financial goddess, Suze Orman, and found when it comes to caregiving, we all face challenges with money. Read Suze's story as caregiver to her mom and what she learned about the costs of long-term care. You can also read this...

The C-A-R-E Conversation Series

The C-A-R-E Conversation Series

  In Sherri Snelling's top-selling book, A Cast of Caregivers – Celebrity Stories to Help You Prepare to Care, the chapter on how to have the C-A-R-E  Conversation has become one of the highlights of the book and in Sherri's speaking engagements. Coming in late...

Caregiving Is A Small World

Caregiving Is A Small World

Caregiving is a global phenomenon - affecting every culture, every society, every community worldwide. Click here to read our CEO Sherri's Snelling's Huffington Post article on how customs in other countries may help American caregivers on their journey.

Joan Lunden’s Coast to Coast Caregiving Coverage

Joan Lunden’s Coast to Coast Caregiving Coverage

I’ve had the privilege of interviewing Joan Lunden several times over the last few years. She is an inspiration – as a woman warrior battling breast cancer, as a mom of seven (!!), as a successful businesswoman and as a caregiver to her mom whom she lost in  2013. I...

The Difference in Caring for Moms versus Dads

The Difference in Caring for Moms versus Dads

The Sandwich Generation is our focus this week. According to Pew Research,  47 percent of Americans  in their 40s and 50s are caring for both children as well as aging parents. While there are many books to help us understand the difference in raising a boy or a girl,...

February Means The Grammy Awards and Music Therapy

February Means The Grammy Awards and Music Therapy

  February means it's Grammy season and the sound of music is all around. This month we celebrate the caregivers, like our friend Holly Robinson Peete, who are musical stars and caregivers as well as luminaries in the music business such as interviews with Quincy...

May is National Mental Health Month

May is National Mental Health Month

According to the National Allliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), one in five Americans has a mental health issue and one in 25 Americans has a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major clinical depression. Because of the stigma and lack of...

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month

Diabetes is a growing concern for the health of Americans. Today, 30 million people live with diabetes and among those, 1 in 3 seniors over age 65 has diabetes. Yet 8 million Americans remain undiagnosed. Diabetes has many risks for other health problems including the...

November is National Hospice Awareness Month

November is National Hospice Awareness Month

    The great movie, The Bucket List, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two older men facing their own mortality and deciding to live instead of wait to die, jump-started dialogues among families and friends on end-of-life wishes. It is a hard...

Caregiving Tipping Points

Caregiving Tipping Points

We are a nation of caregivers – according to the National Alliance for Caregiving one in every three households includes a family member who is caring for a loved one who physically or mentally requires help with some or many of life’s activities. It may start by...