Following are Sherri's blogs for the Alzheimer's Association: A Night to Remember – Alzheimer’s Champions Take Center Stage Can Caregiving Make You Happy? Caregiver Solution to New Year’s Resolutions Caregivers and Pet Therapy Caregivers Take Note – Music Therapy...
Sandwich Generation
Summer Travel – the Caregiver Vacation
Finding the Caregiver Happiness Factor
When it comes to caregiving, happiness may seem absent or fleeting. Our CEO Sherri Snelling has interviewed numerous caregivers who express gratitude or feelings of peacefulness and honor in caring for a loved one but not a lot mentioned happiness. Yet, as Sherri...
Independence Day and the Caregiver Bill of Rights
It was 242 years ago on July 4, 1776, America declared its independence from British tyranny. It took a lot to push the Founding Fathers and American colonists to this break with England but freedom, liberty and happiness were worth their sacrifice. Today, 65...
July is National Sandwich Generation Month
Pew Research found that more Gen Xers are Sandwich Generation caregivers than baby boomers and recent reports from Associated Press/SCAN Foundation and AARP uncovered a growing number of caregivers who are Millennials. When it comes to the juggling act known as...
Father’s Day – Caring for Celebrity Dads and Celebrities Caring for Their Fathers
Our look at caregiving takes a celebrity twist for Father’s Day. We’re spotlighting the high-profile dads who have been cared for in their last years by their adult children while also looking at celebrities who have cared for their fathers. Whether fathers, mothers,...
Hear Sherri Speak
Our CEO, Sherri Snelling, has delivered over 200 keynotes speeches to a variety of groups including: employee educational events sponsored by ERGs, industry tradeshows, nonprofit organization caregiving events, corporate events focused on longevity, university student...
April is National Stress Awareness Month
Since April is National Stress Awareness Month, we put our spotlight on this silent killer. In the best-selling book, The Telomere Effect, the authors found that one year of chronic stress takes six years off our lives. This is because our chromosomes have telomeres...
April 15-21 National Volunteer Week
One of the hardest things for caregivers to do is ask for and accept help. But, if you don’t get a respite break and “time off” now and then, you may wind up more ill than the person for whom you are caring. What is interesting is that a national study found...
Aging Dreamers – How Caregivers Can Help Loved Ones Achieve Their End-of-Life Wishes
It’s been more than 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. As we honor Dr. King’s birthday today with the “MLK Day of Service” family caregivers can perform two acts of...
A Year of Caregiver Hugs, Hygge & Happiness!
Our wishes every year are for caregivers to find the balance they feel they may need in caring for their loved one and caring for themselves. This year we're sending caregivers more hugs (eight hugs a day have proven to be neuroprotective), more hygge (the...
Kimberly Williams Paisley – Long Distance Lullaby for a Mom with Dementia
We all know the talented actress, Kimberly Williams Paisley, mostly from her fresh-faced, "all-American girl" role in the Father of the Bride movies. We also know her as the lucky real-life bride to country crooner and music star, Brad Paisley. But it wasn't until...