Book of the Week: When The Time Comes
Journalist Paula Span shares the stories of several families in her book: When the Times Comes: Families with Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions. Each family faces a question regarding elder care and all have to weigh out the options to reach an appropriate decision. Paula details the emotional challenges, practical discoveries and solutions that these […]
Family Caregivers and Paid Leave
November is National Family Caregivers Month, and to continue supporting caregivers nationwide the National Alliance for Caregiving developed a fact sheet to use when advocating for paid leave. Paid leave is one of the most pressing needs for family caregivers, and this fact sheet provides useful information. Lack of paid leave leads to financial strain […]
Fall Prevention Webinar & Toolkit
The National Alliance for Caregiving is partnering up with the National Council on Aging to release a resource for senior caregivers. The toolkit will provide guidance on how to prevent falls and how to have a conversation on prevention. The toolkit will be released during a webinar that will also feature a Q&A with industry […]
Book of the Week: The Caregiver’s Guide to Self Care: Help For Your Caregiving Journey
The Caregiver’s Guide to Self-Care, written by Jane Meier Hamilton is a self-care guidebook with tips on dealing with caregiver stress. It includes stories, advice, activities, and discussions to guide caregivers through their own journeys.
Caregiver Mental Health Toolkit
This month we celebrate National Family Caregiver’s Month! The National Alliance for Caregiving is partnering with the National Alliance on Mental Illness and mental health advocates to create a toolkit for people who are caring for someone who has mental illness. The toolkit will cover a range of topics including how take care of yourself, […]
A Bittersweet Season by Jane Gross
A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents – and Ourselves was written by Jane Gross. Jane unexpectedly found herself in a caregiving role for her eight-five-year-old mother and faced many challenges. As she and her younger brother struggled with costs of senior care, she struggled to adapt in her role as a caregiver. In this […]
Headspace App
Caregiver stress is part of the job, the Headspace app helps you check in and relax for a moment. Headspace specializes in meditation and relaxation. Meditation times range from three to twenty minutes and covers a variety of topics. It’s great for busy lifestyles and helps maintain a mediation schedule. Learn more about the app […]
Book of the Week: Cruising Through Caregiving
Cruising Through Caregiving was written by Jennifer L. FitzPatrick. FitzPatrick has experienced all types of caregiving situations both professionally and personally, and with this book she shares her wisdom and knowledge. She focuses on the balance of being a good caregiver and not loosing yourself into it. Jennifer offers wisdom and personal stories of how […]
The Spectrum of Hope by Gayatri Devi
The Spectrum of Hope: An Optimistic and New Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias was written by neurologist Dr. Gayatri Devi. She has been specializing in dementia and memory loss for over 20 years. With this book she changes the way we look at Alzheimer’s disease by defining it as a spectrum disorder. She offers […]
Where the Light Gets In
Where the Light Gets In was written by famous actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley. It tells the story of her mother’s illness and how it changed their family. It explores the writer’s relationship with her mother and their bond as they deal with a rare form of dementia. Read more about the book here.
The Five Wishes: An Easy Living Will
The Five Wishes is a document which was created to serve as a living will and provides questions to prompt you to think about how you would like your medical treatments and care to be provided if you were unable to speak or communicate these desires for yourself. This living will document accounts for your medical, personal, emotional and physical […]
Book of the Week: The Caregiver
The Caregiver by Samuel Park tells the story of Mara and her mother Ana, set in Brazil. After some bad choices, Mara ends up living undocumented in the United States working as a caregiver for a woman that is in the late stages of stomach cancer. During her job as a caregiver she deals with […]