Caregiver’s Guide for Canadians
What should you do when your mother or father grows old?
Do you know a family caregiver?
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Do you work out of town and worry about your aging parents?
When caring for a parent or aging loved one becomes more of a burden than a joy, what do you do?
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Doris Inc. – A Business Approach to Caring for Your Elderly Parents
Finally, a caregiving book that helps you provide top-notch care for your aging loved one while still having a life of your own.
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Field of Daisies
Field of Daisies, a recently released book from OakTara Publishing Company, offers hope and comfort to those who struggle with recurring generational problems and to those who must make decisions regarding elderly family members.
Intervention or interference? Making the best decisions
It’s our job as family caregivers to help determine the best course of action to protect our loved ones without causing them any additional personal drama or trauma.
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Pardon me? What did you say? The shared experience of hearing loss and the shared responsibility of communication
Hearing loss can happen so gradually that it can go unnoticed for many years.
Allergies: Are you prepared?
More and more people are showing signs of being
Five big lessons I’ve learned
?I spent some quiet time with my mother at her nursing home late yesterday. It was shortly after dinner. Some of her fellow residents were watching television. Others were already being readied for bed.
Elder Rage
For eleven years I pleaded with my elderly father to allow a caregiver to help him with my ailing mother, but after 55 years of loving each other he adamantly insisted on taking care of her himself. Every caregiver I hired to help him sighed in exasperation, “Jacqueline, I just can’t work with your father–his temper is impossible to handle. I don’t think he’ll accept help until he’s on his knees himself.”