Advocacy Category
Caregiving Advocacy – Education for caregivers who may be unfamiliar with aspects of caregiving and healthcare promotes advocacy. Caregivers and those needing care often feel vulnerable to organizations or systems of which they have little knowledge. This vulnerability places caregivers, those needing care and their families at risk of receiving substandard care or of making poor decisions due to lack of information. Make sure you and your loved one receive care that’s beneficial and needed.
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Programs Offered by Caregiving Experts Improve Caregiver Confidence and the Ability to Manage Daily Challenges and Care Needs
Caregiving support programs offered by caregiving advocates and experts are valuable and deliver results. Improved confidence in the ability to manage daily challenges and care needs occurs. Lower stress and anxiety result. Freedom from feeling that caregivers and care receivers run from one crisis
Admitting What You Don’t Know
Health care providers avoid uncomfortable discussions. For caregivers, not asking the right questions, leads to faulty results.
Caregiving Advocacy: Becoming The Squeaky Wheel
Advocating for an aging loved one is a learned skill. Family caregivers have a responsibility to an aging parent or loved one to be proactive about care needs. If you are the medical or financial power of attorney you have a legal responsibility to act. This legal responsibility to act sometimes pla
The Helpful Neighbor: How Did I Get Involved?
I recently received a telephone call from the housekeeper of an elderly woman named Shirley who was concerned that her client was alone and had serious health concerns. She called, frantic because Shirley was starving herself. The housekeeper reported that Shirley told her that she wanted to die.
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Caregiving Battles: Sibling Relationships
By Pamela D Wilson MS, BS/BA, CSA, NCGHow many of you, when young, vied for the attention of your parents? How many of you today, feel that your parents have “favorites” among their children. These early differences between children and perceptions of parental favorites carry on in later life
Elizabeth Hughes and The Story of Insulin
Interview With Thea Cooper, Author and Historian (podcast 11:12 playing time)
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Medications and the Mature Adult
Many adults I work with complain about the quantity of medications their physicians prescribe. Admittedly, many take five to ten different medications on any given day. Many previously healthy individuals now diagnosed with a chronic disease requiring medications say they do not want to take p
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