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Caregiver Humor: Finding Something to Laugh about in Not-So-Funny Situations

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How do you take care of a disagreeable person?

If you are not already a caregiver for someone with a chronic or terminal illness, statistics say you will be. It’s estimated that there are...
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Daughter feels the pull from across the country to care for her parents

Five years ago, Sally V, then 61, was sitting and meditating when she heard a “cosmic call” to move from Boston back to San Francisco...
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Understanding Alzheimer's, clearing the air of harmful misconceptions

A friend of mine recently said to me, “When my friends learned I had Alzheimer’s, many looked at me as if I had some kind of contagious...
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My Brain is Fried: Inside Chronic Illnesses

Many people believe that everyone lives in the same world. At an event, we all see, smell, taste, or touch the same things, and therefore, our...
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Caregivers: We're not Mother Teresa

I’d been a bedside hospice volunteer for more than five years in San Francisco; sitting with dying patients and their families once or twice...
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Caretaking: Dealing with our own needs

I’ve been a bedside volunteer for more than five years; sitting with dying patients and their families once or twice a week for up to four...
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A man in San Francisco takes care of his wife's family after her death

For the past seven years, since his wife died at the age of 56, Rey, now 70, is the major caregiver for two of his wife’s brothers, a niece,...
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Use Social Networking Sites to Support Your Mission: High Tech Meets High Touch

I mentioned earlier I'm now accepting guest bloggers so I can sniff the flowers more often and bring you the wonderful gift of people I respect and...
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10 stress management steps for the caregiver

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 'Job stress can be defined as the harmful physical and emotional responses that...
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