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Six Tips for Caring for Aging Adults When it’s Difficult

Caring for aging family members is a massive task. As the situation changes, like with worsening health or other issues, the whole situation becomes even more complicated. Something else that complicates everything is that seniors find it difficult to navigate the emotional end of all of this. That can cause them to turn down help,...

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What Does Self-care for Caregivers Look Like?

Everybody is talking about self-care, but it’s easy to misinterpret what self-care truly is. There’s a lot of talk of sleep and pedicures, but that’s not the heart and soul of self-care. What self-care truly is varies for everyone, but the basics include ensuring that you’ve got what you need to keep doing the things...

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Making Sure Your Senior Parent Gets the Support She Needs

One of the challenges family caregivers face is realizing that they can’t keep a promise they made to a parent. You promised your mom that if she ever needed long-term care, you’d be her caregiver. However, you’re facing health or work issues of your own and can’t keep that promise. You feel like a failure....

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Five Tips for Adjusting to Being a Family Caregiver

As much as your elderly family member has to adjust to receiving help, you also have to adjust a bit to being the one who is there for her and helping her to have the quality of life that you want her to have. These tips can help you to avoid feeling as if you’re...

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Five Things to Keep in Mind as a Family Caregiver

There’s no one plan that works in every caregiving situation. That is why it is so important that you and your elderly family member, alone with anyone else involved in her care, take the time to really personalize a care plan that works for her. Clarify What Caregiving Means for Everyone Involved You might know...

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Do You Need to Be a Remote Caregiver?

In a perfect world, you’d be able to be there with your senior every time that she needs you to be. Unfortunately, more and more people find that they need to be remote caregivers for the people that they love. If that’s a situation you’re facing, too, you’re not alone and there are ways to...

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