Balancing work and caregiving in your everyday life.
The possible health risks to an elderly caregiver who is involved in the care of a very sick person is real and can be life threatening
In the United States, families are the backbone of the long-term care system and provide care at enormous personal cost -- to their physical and mental health, to their other family and job responsibilities and to their own financial security.
Any caregiver must learn to care for themselves as well as they care for the one they help. This will help them understand their fears and angers and suggest ways to limit stress.
Make a place for your illness and put it in its place.
Daughters serving as the primary caregivers for an ailing parent show more cardiovascular stress than do wives caring for their ailing husbands, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Those with Parkinson's and other diseases face many of the same problems and situations as do those with progressive supranuclear palsy.
Compassion fatigue is a term that refers to a physical, emotional and spiritual fatigue or exhaustion that takes over a person and causes a decline in his or her ability to experience joy or to feel and care for others.
Several articles on the "stages of caregiving".
Caregiving is a hard and sometimes thankless job that provides few if any rewards. In order to get the resources you need sometimes you feel you are fighting the rest of the world by yourself. The availability of family caregivers does not absolve our public policy makers of their responsibility to make sure that their actions assist rather than destroy families.
