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How to Avoid Sibling Caregiver Conflict

Our relationships with our siblings are among the most complicated, conflicting and certainly the longest of our lives. Caregiving Can Put Stress on Sibling Relationships Depending on our personalities and age differences, our brothers and sisters are at times our mentors, ......

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What’s In Your Senior Care Ready Bag?

We’ve talked and written quite a bit about the isolation and stress of day-to-day caregiving. But other significant stressors are unexpected. And for elderly people, unfortunately, those sudden interruptions sometimes include a trip to the hospital. Going to the hospital is ......

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Improving Family Dynamics by Acknowledging Caregiver Personas

When you first start taking care of an aging parent or loved one it can, we know from experience, be an unnerving, even scary process. 5 Overarching Caregiver Personality Types Our research on caregiver isolation and family dynamics has yielded some insights on how the ......

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Top 12 Fall Prevention Tips from Professional Caregivers

Slips, trips, and stumbles can be more serious as we grow older or when our recuperative powers are compromised by some medical condition. That’s why many of our friends and colleagues in the caring professions are joining together to promote National Falls Prevention ......

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Meet One of the Best Caregivers in America

For some, caregiving is a responsibility. For others, it’s a privilege. For all of us, it’s an honor, and that’s why it’s a special occasion when this call to serve others is recognized on a national level. It’s a special kind of person who commits a significant part of his ......

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Personal Emergency Response Systems Can Ease Your Worries

The first priority of most older Americans is to preserve as much of their independence as they can for as long as they can. For us as caregivers, that means being present enough to offer support without interfering. This can be challenging for some families, as we can’t ......

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Celebrate Independence at Every Age

When we’re young, we celebrate every new symbol of our emerging self-reliance: Going to the store by ourselves for the first time. Getting a driver’s license. Heading off to college. Paying our own rent or mortgage. While we take pride in these accomplishments in the ......

The Elder Abuse Problem: How to Protect Your Loved Ones

It seems like one of the common principles that unite all cultures: Respect your elders. But sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. An under-appreciated problem The problem of elder abuse in our country — and it is a serious problem, with the Department of Health and Human ......

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Our Exceptional Caregiver of the Year "Truly Lives it Every Day"

The leadership from Home Helpers Home Care offices in more than 600 local communities gathered April 19 in Nashville to honor our 2015 Exceptional Caregiver Award finalists. I was honored and humbled to name Betty Bibb the 2015 Exceptional Caregiver of the Year. Betty is a ......

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