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The stresses of caring for a sick loved one affect every family member in different ways — and sometimes, the entire unit can seem to fall apart. Family tensions are common in the face of a health crisis, especially when the sick person is a parent.
Caregiver Confessions: When You’re in Over Your Head
Feeling overwhelmed by caregiving? You’re not alone. It’s common to feel over your head in terms of managing the stress, worries, new skills, and piles of details involved in caring for another person.
Caregiver Confessions: When You’re Sleeping Poorly — Or Not at All
Sleep problems are rampant among caregivers — although they often try to hide this fact from family members and the person they’re caring for, out of misplaced worry that it’s selfish to complain.
Caregiver Confessions: When You Don’t Feel Appreciated
By Paula Spencer Scott, Caring.com senior editor Caregivers focus on giving, not getting. It’s the nature of the job. Even so, it’s only natural to sometimes feel taken for granted by those you’re helping, or to feel like your efforts are making no difference. “Making a difference motivates women,” says TV-radio personality Leeza Gibbons, who [...]
Sandwich Generation: 7 Things You Need to Know
Middle-aged women in their mid- to late 40’s are now caring for both their own children and caring for aging parents as well. These family jugglers are being pulled in many different directions at once and so are feeling a lot of stress. Most are working full time and provide an average of 20 hours of care a week to one or more family members.
Caregiver Confessions: When You Feel Consumed by Guilt
For caregivers, guilt carries a double whammy: It’s almost always unproductive, yet it’s ever-present. Guilt over not doing enough. Guilt over not being there enough. Guilt over wrong choices, broken promises, lost tempers, unfinished conversations.
Attention Members of the Sandwich Generation
Are you a member of the Sandwich Generation? Are you taking care of your own children and your elderly parents at the same time? If you, welcome to the Sandwich Generation.
There are around 65 million people in the U.S., mostly women, who are taking care of an elderly parent, most often one with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. This is a very hard job. Add to that they are also raising their own kids and possibly working at the same time.
Caregiver Confessions with Leeza Gibbons
By Caring.com Staff Last updated: November 07, 2011 TV and radio personality Leeza Gibbons knows firsthand the dark, lonely, and stressful emotions that can be triggered by caring for a frail or sick loved one. While caring for her late mother, who had Alzheimer’s disease, she conceived the Leeza’s Place support centers for caregivers — [...]
Respite Care Services: Helping Caregivers Get a Break
Sometimes you just need a break. You need the opportunistic break that offers a few moments to rejuvenate, to enjoy, or accomplish those tasks that seem to sit idly in the proverbial “inbox” of life. As a caregiver for your senior loved one, you spend many of your waking hours working in your daily profession, commuting, coordinating, and making the world around you happen as seamlessly as possible. But, where do you find those mini-moments of time off from housekeeping chores, preparing meals, managing medications, bathing and dressing your senior family member?