SubscribeCaregiver 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.
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.
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 — [...]