By Connie Matthiessen, Caring.com Try these strategies to remain effective and sane when you’re taking care of someone who’s difficult. Caring for a difficult relative or other loved one Being a caregiver is never easy, but if you’ve spent much of your adult life trying just get along with a parent or another older adult…
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How should people navigate the demands of caregiving?
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By Rebecca Lippel Greenwich Citizen There seems to be an evolution to the life cycle. We begin as dependent infants and children in absolute need of our parents to protect and nurture us. The teen years appear to be a time to push away from that same protection and nurturing we crave when entering the…
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By Marilyn C. Ellis So often I hear frustrated clients tell me, “Help, my elderly parents are so stubborn and they are driving me crazy!” I completely understand this frustration as I have been there too. My elderly mother became more and more forgetful as she got older. She would forget to eat and drink. …
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How to Win Dementia Arguments By Frena Gray-Davidson So, here are useful words and phrases to use while arguing with people with dementia. Ready? Okay, here goes: 1. Uh-huh; 2. Really? 3. I know. 4. You do? 5. Okay then. You can’t possibly lose a dementia argument using these. Oh, did I mention that no-one…
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By Carol Bradley Bursack, AgingCare.com Occasionally, someone on the AgingCare.com forum will say that they secretly wish the parent for whom they are caring would die. The parent is sick, miserable and hard to care for. The caregiver wants her or his life back. Of course, those who admit they have had this thought wonder…
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Amy Grant on being a caregiver to an elderly parent… Amy is featured in this week’s PEOPLE Magazine discussing the greatest challenge – and greatest lesson — of her life as she navigates the ‘new reality’ of a parent with dementia and embraces the unexpected gifts it brings. The article is written by Eileen Finan…
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By Carol Bradley BursackAgingCare.com One question that is often asked on Agingcare.com is, “How do I deal with the reality of leaving behind the life I had in order to become the primary caregiver to my parents?” The words used vary by the questioner, but the question is essentially the same. How do we cope…
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