Clearing Your Mental Desk by Shelley As caregivers, we have many projects awaiting our attention. Weekly meal plans accompanied by grocery lists, creating a map of the quickest roundtrip route to use in order to accomplish the most errands in one day, arranging to...
Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Floods, Terrorist Attacks – Are You Prepared? By Shelley When we think emergency, we generally think that an emergency room would be the place to go to get help. With a natural disaster or a terrorist attack, an emergency room may even be...
For the past couple of weeks, I have been participating in a “blog challenge”. In this challenge, we accept the opportunity to to challenge ourselves to write a blog post on a certain schedule. Most of the participants have chosen to attempt to write a...
SURPRISING WAYS TO HELP PREVENT OSTEOPOROSIS by Shelley Simply put, Osteoporosis is a degenerative disease that tends to make bones less dense and therefore weaker and more susceptible to fractures. Calcium is what we generally think of when it comes to bone...
Why Should a Caregiver Ask for Help? If you have spent any part of your life as an athlete or in an aerobics or yoga class, you know that by the time a person actually feels thirsty, their hydration is already depleted. Once it’s depleted, it takes the body...