Exclusive Video: Taking care of self, while caring for others
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In this video, health and wellness expert Marlene George shares valuable information, strategies and tools for caregivers to maintain their health while tending to the needs of others.
Category: Caregiver Burnout
Caregiver’s Guide to a Stress-Free Holiday
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Christmastime can be particularly difficult for caregivers. When you are responsible for the health and well being of someone else every day of the year including holidays, you may feel like you cannot participate in events as you would like.
Support for caregivers with schizophrenic patients needs promoting, Nova Scotia group says
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Caregivers are susceptible to stress, anxiety and fatigue, society executive director Diane MacDougall said. That’s in part due to a lack of communication in the health care system, she said.
Deloitte to Offer Paid Leave for Elder Caregiving
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Professional-services firm will let employees take up to 16 weeks for range of caregiving The latest step in family-friendly benefits: paid leave for all caregiving, including eldercare. In recent years, a parade of blue chip employers, mainly in the technology, financial-services and professional-services industries, have been competing to offer ever more generous parental-leave benefits. On … Continued
A funny thing happened on the way to caregiver burnout.
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Caregiver burnout is no joking matter, or is it?
Hidden Victims
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Caregivers: If you need help, ask for it.
Putting my life on hold to live with my parents lost to Alzheimer’s
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More than anything, the grief or loss I feel is in the form of loneliness.
8 tips for new family caregivers
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It’s hard to know where to begin caring for someone, and caregiving is typically not a role anyone has training for!
The last things a caregiver for a loved one needs to hear – and the first
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When speaking to caregivers, conversations can be especially fraught.
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