From the monthly archives:
Caregiverland can make our eating habits run amok — and aggravate our caregiver depression.
Do some of these Eating Habits Gone Amok sound familiar in your Caregiver experience?
Eating over the sink and stove. Or the steering wheel.
We’re so busy that we don’t have time to actually sit down at a real table (a coffee table or [...]
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S
ome gratitudes from this week:
Tiny guava fruits on my Bangkok and White guava bushes; after seven years, these bushes are finally producing fruit.
Puppy sitting a loveable German Shepherd puppy, who acts like he’s been taken to doggy summer camp — lots of romping time with our two big dogs.
Going on a road trip to Cottonwood [...]
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Define Your Support Circle Carefully. These choices can either Drain or Replenish your Life Force on the Journey through Caregiverland.
I was reading an insightful interview with a therapist who is writing a book about dealing with chronic illness.
Elvira Aletta is a clinical psychologist, wife, mom to two teenagers and blogger, who is working on a [...]
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Finally… it looks like the medical establishment is grasping how caregiver depression can be treated.
Researchers have created a scale to evaluate the risk of caregivers for a major depressive episode — a first step to evaluating how to treat the depression associated with caregiving.
Researchers at Yale University have been evaluating a new survey instrument-the Stressful [...]
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Caregivers for stroke survivors report that the role has been challenging, but has even provided some personal blessings, a study reports.
I found a footnote to the study results the most fascinating part of this research: Apparently, this was first epidemiologically based study that looks at caregivers and stroke survivors. Stroke is one of the most [...]
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Last Halloween, my Mum’s nursing home celebrated the event by inviting the staff’s children to trick or treat. The staff dressed up in wacky outfits, and provided little treat buckets for the residents to distribute to our little visitors.
I brought a camera, and my husband brought our golden retriever, dressed up in a suit and [...]
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Caregiver families need to have a plan ready to deal with the challenges of dealing with a LO during the chaos of a natural disaster.
Three out of four Americans are at risk for some kind of natural disaster — you might even be in a flood plain without knowing it.
Even a temporary situation caused by [...]
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An upcoming British study demonstrates that doctors overuse and over-prescribe anti psychotic drugs for Alzheimers — and under-use of effective Alzheimers drugs.
GP newspaper, a publication for British general practitioners, revealed that one in five UK prescriptions for dementia drugs are still for anti-psychotic treatments. That appears to be an unacceptably and high rate, since anti [...]
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Morning is a blessed time for our household.
When I rise, I come to the kitchen to pour a cup of coffee, mixed with soy milk. Dad is sitting at the kitchen table, meditating in the dark kitchen. Lymphoma saps his energy, so mornings are the best times for Dad. I don’t bother him during his [...]
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My DH reminds me sometimes:
I may not be perfect, but I am a work in progress.
That’s a good reminder that I am a caregiver in training — and always will be.
Right now, I am getting a failing grade in Caregiver School — my crankiness has given me a big failing grade.
However, when I look [...]
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