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Q: Who is in Charge,
When You Are the Caregiver?

A: You Are, If You Have All the Information You play a crucial role in the care of your person. You’re the one ensuring their needs are met, their health…

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Is this you?

Caregivers. Those who choose to focus on what’s best for someone else. We come in all shapes, sizes and abilities, yes? Working parent caring for an elderly relative, a spouse…

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It Feels like the Opposite of Hope

What is hardest about dementia for me? The fact that it feels like the opposite of hope. All our lives we live in hope. In hope of what is coming….

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This Week

This week. I walked into mom’s west wing at the care home. A crowd of staff at the nurse’s station. Shift change debrief time. Mom wasn’t in her room, not…

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Can I say, In the Trenches?

A good friend is ‘In the Trenches’ as we say. She’s caring for her aging mom whose health is declining, and for complicated family reasons does not have the full…

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The Love of Care: A video

This special report examines challenges, stresses, and triumphs for family caregivers. More than 53 million Americans identify as family caregivers. That’s more than 1 in 5 adults. This video is…

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Music and Care

The ‘MUSIC CARE by Room 217’ people know that music care decreases agitation, increases social engagement, reduces isolation and loneliness, supports relationship completion and increases social cohesion! Has this been…

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Care Home Elevator

  You arrive at the care home to visit, maybe it’s an assisted living facility or palliative care ward. Step into the elevator and the doors close. You glance around…

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