Rhetoric vs Reality: The Real Role of Families in Hospital Care
Family caregivers WANT to help look after their loved ones. But we need to be recognized as essential components of the treatment team and we need the ability to set limits on the number of hours we put in at the bedside.
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End-of-life care: Assist your loved ones with clear instructions
The debate around assisted death is hitting a fever pitch.
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Sudbury Accent: An unspeakable horror
Author seeking caregiving stories.
Putting my life on hold to live with my parents lost to Alzheimer’s
More than anything, the grief or loss I feel is in the form of loneliness.
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8 tips for new family caregivers
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
When speaking to caregivers, conversations can be especially fraught.
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Looking for a Key-Note Speaker?
I enjoy speaking to groups on a variety of caregiving issues.
Grief: It’s not complicated, we just make it that way.
One of the most difficult and complex things one will ever do in life is be a caregiver for a terminally ill loved one. As a caregiver, the burden that we carry is almost too much to bear at times.
After the death: grief & dreams.
I started out as a novice caregiver, but over time I got my Caregiving PhD through on-the-job training.
WHAT DO CAREGIVERS NEED FROM THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM?
I believe that caregivers need the health care system to be responsive.