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Tips To Reduce Stress During the Holidays

While the holidays can be stressful in and of themselves, when you add caregiving to the mix, they can become almost unbearable. There are presents to buy, fancier-than-normal meals to prepare, traveling to do, and visitors to entertain. As a caregiver, there are also...

Minimizing Holiday Stress for Caregivers of Dementia Afflicted Loved Ones

Caring for a loved one who suffers from dementia requires compassion, patience, a sense of humor, and a plan for respite for the caretaker. Each day a caregiver must cope with decreasing levels of ability and new patterns of behavior, which can be very stressful. This...

The Emotional and Physical Challenges of Incontinence

Yesterday’s newletter featured an article titled “A Wee Bit About Incontinence”. When I mentioned that on Twitter, I received an e-mail regarding a press-release about a study that was done among caregivers on the problem of incontinence. The...

Chance to Win a Caregiver’s Night Out

I just received a letter from Allison Martin of the Zeno Group which has in its line of items, the Tena group of incontinence products. Because November is National Caregiver’s Month, they are sponsoring a sweepstakes that will award 40 lucky winners a night...

Laughter is Great Medicine

Norman Cousins, author, journalist and an adjunct professor at The School of Medicine at UCLA , described in his book “Anatomy of an Illness” how laughter helped relieve the pain he suffered from a collagen disease and then later a form of reactive...

A Comedic Overview of Caregiving Mom

watch?v=m4ooXXm5kDU For anyone who is or has been a caregiver, this hysterical look at caregiving from the view of “The Midlife Gals”, who tout themselves as “Two twisted middle-aged sisters from Texas with a computer and a camera”, will have...