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Category: Tales from Home

A great start

November 7, 2012 | By Caregiving Matters

I’m 60 years old and last month I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Although I was eating more than I should, I always tried to choose healthy alternatives whenever I could.

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Tales from Home

A profound personal connection with a grandchild moving on

November 2, 2012 | By Caregiving Matters

Nicole wanted to arrange a visit with my mother, her grandmother, who just the month before celebrated her 96th birthday.

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Alzheimer's & Dementia, Tales from Home

A perfect combination / A healthy relationship

October 31, 2012 | By Caregiving Matters

When I married, I moved only 30 minutes away from my dad’s apartment. Seven years ago he suffered a mild stroke and that short car ride was too far.

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Tales from Home

A helping hand

October 24, 2012 | By Caregiving Matters

I retired to become my mother’s primary caregiver. After five years, when she lost her battle with cancer, it was a difficult period.

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Tales from Home

Birds of a feather

October 16, 2012 | By Caregiving Matters

My Aunt Betty came to live with me when she found it hard to manage on her own. She had never married because she had been her elderly parents’ caregiver.

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A wicked sense of humour

October 10, 2012 | By Caregiving Matters

My granny and I were very close. I loved how her feisty attitude and quick wit made everything fun.

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My silver-haired dad

October 3, 2012 | By Caregiving Matters

My father was a bachelor until he met my mother, who was much younger than him, at quite a late age. They married and I was born a year later.

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Tales from Home

TRAINLOAD JACKSON’S STORY: Gratitude

September 26, 2012 | By Caregiving Matters

My grandfather passed away a few years ago after a brave battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In his prime, he was a tall, strong man who could move a washing machine or refrigerator without batting an eyelash.

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Tales from Home

Faded memories

September 19, 2012 | By Caregiving Matters

Mom was a lonely widow in her 70s when we asked her to write her childhood stories and stories from her ancestors.

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Tales from Home

New beginnings

September 12, 2012 | By Caregiving Matters

People often ask me, “How long has your father-in-law been in the home?” I tell them $80,000 worth—they look at me with bewilderment and I say three years.

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