Helping Elderly Parents Make Decisions Helping elderly parents make decisions can be a challenge for adult children when doubts exist about making the right decisions. Becoming a caregiver for an aging parent can result in high levels of stress, anxiety, and physical... Read more
How to Manage Caregiver Burnout When You Hate What Caregiving is Doing to Your Life Caregivers accept the duty to caregive without realizing how quickly life changes. The question of “how to manage caregiver burnout” when you hate what caregiving is doing to your life... Read more
Uncertainty about roles and responsibilities are concerns of family caregivers. These concerns include 1:1 care, emotional and social support, and care monitoring, coordination, and advocacy. Physical stress, worry, and emotional overwhelm are shared caregiver... Read more
The Politics of Caregiving: How to Avoid Creating Enemies Politics are everywhere including in caregiving relationships. If watching politicians flip flop in between opinions and parties isn’t enough to push one over the edge, trying to manage the politics of... Read more
Challenges of Invisible Caregivers Challenges of invisible caregivers include navigating healthcare, community services, friendships, and the caregiver’s well-being. “Don’t bother working with her you got what you got.” Distressing words—some might call... Read more
The Caregiving Trap Caregiver Burden By Pamela D. Wilson, CSA, MS, BS/BA, CG Caregiver burden represents the emotional, physical, and financial aspects and responsibilities of providing care and support for an ailing family member. This is a subject rarely discussed... Read more