Caregiver Travel Hacks: Tips for Smooth Vacation Planning
These practical caregiver travel hacks can help you plan a smooth vacation while ensuring your loved one's wellbeing.
The Joys and Challenges of Being a Sandwich Generation Caregiver
Are you a caregiver caught between caring for your aging parents and raising your own children? See how to navigate this unique spot.
Benefitting from Respite Care: Understanding Its Value
Respite care is an essential service that provides temporary relief to family caregivers. See how it can benefit you and your loved ones.
The Importance of Respite Care for Family Caregivers
For family caregivers, respite care can mean the difference between burnout and a sustainable home care routine. Learn more about it in this blog post!
Why Respite Care Should Be a Part of Every Family’s Care Plan
Although it’s highly gratifying, serving as a family caregiver can be physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting. No matter what role you find yourself serving, here’s why respite care should be an essential part of your family’s overall care plan.
Feeling Overwhelmed as a Senior Caregiver
It’s not uncommon for family caregivers to experience chronic stress and anxiety that eventually place their health and wellbeing at risk. If you’re a senior caregiver, here are several proven ways to keep yourself from feeling overwhelmed.
How to Reduce Stress in Yourself and Others
Most family caregivers are amazing people that devote their lives to caring for aging in place elderly loved ones. But caregiving can also be very stressful and exhausting, especially when you throw in a traumatic event like the COVID-19 outbreak.
How to Set Realistic New Year’s Caregiving Resolutions
As the calendar moves into January, it’s common to think about New Year’s resolutions. If you’re a family caregiver who’s looking after an aging in place senior, making a list of caregiving resolutions can help you more efficiently balance your responsibilities with a household, spouse, children and job.
Surviving the Holidays as a Sandwich Generation Caregiver
The holidays can be a hectic time of year, but when you’re trying to make all those last-minute preparations while also looking after an aging in place elderly loved one, you can find yourself feeling completely overwhelmed. Being a member of the “sandwich generation” during the holidays can ratchet up your stress level to the point that it places your health and wellbeing at risk.
How to Deal with Negative Feelings as a Caregiver
Serving as a family caregiver for an aging in place elderly loved one is highly rewarding, but it can also be very hectic and exhausting at times. As a result, it’s not uncommon for a family caregiver to start developing negative feelings towards the senior they’re caring for. If those emotions are not promptly addressed, they can not only adversely affect a caregiver’s health and wellbeing, but also that of their loved one. Fortunately, working through negative feelings as a caregiver is possible by taking these steps.