Ann Campanella shares Part 4 of Lessons From My Mother – Caregiving is hard on relationships. “Perhaps the relationship I neglected most was the one with myself.”
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You’re Doing Something Right
Life as a caregiver can often feel like no life at all. In essence, you are sacrificing your own life to care for someone else. If you feel like you are making enormous sacrifices, you’re doing something right.
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Lessons From My Mother pt. 2
There’s no getting around it. Caring for another person is hard work. It wasn’t easy but it was what she needed. And it was what I needed to do for her. – Guest contributor Ann Campanella shares part two of Lessons From My Mother
Give Me Those Keys!
After the initial diagnosis of dementia, an unexpected hurdle may be breaching the subject of taking away a loved one’s driving privileges. Find a gentle way to keep them off the road – for their sake, and ours!
Guard Your Heart and Mind
It’s very important for caregivers to protect their own health, both mentally and physically. Don’t become the second victim. Guard your heart and mind! As a woman of faith I rely heavily on this passage from the Bible to find peace and happiness…
Lessons From My Mother pt.1
If you ask most people if they’d want to relive the years when their loved one had Alzheimer’s, you’d most likely get a resounding, “No!” That’s my first response too. But, if I give myself time to let the question penetrate deeper into my heart, my answer is different.
Work Is What We Make Of It
Stephene Moore, a nurse by profession, is married to former U.S. Representative Dennis Moore from Kansas’ 3rd District. The couple have been strong advocates for funding and awareness since his diagnosis in 2011 and we are glad to welcome her as a guest contributor to CareLiving.org I have been the sole caregiver to my husband,…
Little By Little
I’ve found that you can lose pieces of yourself little by little when you are caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. A sacrifice here, missing a night out with friends there; the list goes on until one day you find yourself alone and wondering what happened to the person you used…