After your loved one has had a stroke, it is important to know how to help keep them healthy and to do what you can to prevent another stroke. Survivors of strokes are at a higher risk of having another one, especially if their medications and health plans are not followed. Here are some things Read More
Memories: The Building Blocks of Our Lives
Even if we can’t remember the details, we can use our early experiences, our memories, to bring back smiles, laughter or tears. Nevertheless, these early memories are what make us who we are today. Some of us have only positive memories of our childhood, while others may have a tough time due to our unique Read More
Missing Mom…After the Grief
Sitting in my home office, with mom’s cat on my lap as I type, brings both a smile and a pain to my heart. It has been two years since her passing at the age of 91. I don’t think we truly heal completely from the loss of a parent – whatever the relationship was Read More
Alzheimer’s at Young Ages – “Still Alice”
Julianne Moore does an incredible job at playing the part of brilliant, 50-year-old college professor “Alice” who recognizes her own symptoms of a brain disorder – thinking, of course, that it must be a brain tumor. She was forgetting words and directions with more frequency; her normal thought process seemed just a little “out of Read More
Marriage Survival: 6 Tips for the Caregiving Spouse
Caring is a gift of love, obligation or default because there is no one to share the care. With family care often also comes exhaustion, frustration, anger, depression, or disappointment at the same time as loving concern. In our wedding vows, most of us promised to care for our partner in sickness and in health. Read More
Caregivers Love “All Your Perfect Imperfections”
I hear so often from family caregivers who feel guilty because they can’t fix mom or dad or be the “everything” their spouse needs. So, these words – from a John Legend song, “All of Me” – ring true for us. In the song, he sings that he loves “All of You” despite your perfect Read More
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