Robert Pardi cared for his wife for 11 years as she battled with breast cancer. Eleven years of hospital visits, treatments, and in-home care. Eleven years of emotional highs and lows, hopes and dreams awakened and many more dashed. What Robert was...
We need a community of caregivers to support us because no one knows better how our challenges and triumphs feel every day, all day.
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many frightened family caregivers to assess whether or not it’s safe to have health care professionals in the home.
I am calling on a national initiative to ceremoniously deputize family members, dress them up in doctoring duds, and let them enter senior residences so they can do what they have done since care was invented – be the healing refuge for their loved...
One of the effects of Covid-19 is that we are going to have a pandemic of parents who are burned out, living with kids 24 hours a day who are experiencing heightened feelings of worry, sadness and confusion. A regular cornucopia of mental health...
These are strange times. Scary for many. Isolating for most. In particular, families who are caring for loved ones with a health problem are feeling the impact.
What does pain look like in a person who cannot speak? Discover ways to understand pain when someone you care about cannot easily communicate.
As caregivers you are also experts- bastions of knowledge and life experience that very few health care professionals can ever understand from textbooks or clinical practice.
Donna Thomson, lifelong caregiver and Huddol Leader, talks about how a lifetime of caring for her son Nicolas was the catalyst for personal growth.