Change

One of the hardest decisions caregivers face is whether to keep a loved one living at home or move them into an extended care, nursing home or rehab facility. Just considering it as an option often brings up tremendous guilt, and actually taking steps toward invoking that option – researching facilities, getting advice and comparing [...]

Change can be a scary thing, and the human brain is amazingly good at distracting us and keeping us “safe” from taking on challenges or changes that we’re afraid to attempt by making them seem impossible, complicated, undesirable or even boring. If you were to put it into words, one common example of this fear [...]

There is a lot going on in the world at any given moment that can cause us to feel fearful, and most of it seems beyond our control. All the more reason to stand strong against letting fear run the parts of your life over which you actually do have control! So before you read further, [...]

It seems that almost all caregivers have to deal with feeling at least a little guilty at some points in their caregiving. Whether for something as simple as forgetting an item at the grocery store that their loved one was counting on, or something big like not being able to spend more quality time with [...]