Ashwini C. Bapat MD
Want to Live Better with Dementia? Get Palliative Care
Palliative care empowers individuals living with dementia to live a meaningful life in accordance with their values, while also supporting t
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Carolyn Birrell
- Nov 1, 2022
- 3 min
Learning to love intentionally when your loved one is hardest to love
Ask any new caregiver and they’ll likely tell you that nothing is more overwhelming than learning a loved one has dementia and now needs...
California Caregiver Resource Centers
- Jun 1, 2022
- 3 min
Caregivers Deserve a Break - Here’s How to Get One
What is Respite Care?
When someone else steps in to temporarily care for the person you care for in your absence.
California Caregiver Resource Centers
- Mar 18, 2022
- 4 min
Signs it Might Be Time to Ask for Help and Tips on How To Get It
In this article, we are going to provide some insight into when caregivers should consider outside help and how to ask for it.
Beth Gibbs
- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
Ways to Take A Caregiver Break
As a caregiver you are facing your responsibilities and challenges in difficult times. One of those challenges is to find and embrace...
Debbie Howard
- Nov 4, 2021
- 5 min
Self-care: A Work-in-Progress Zone!
As the autumn leaves start to turn, it’s a good time to take stock of where things stand, and think about how you can wrap up the year with
G.J. Hodson
- Sep 29, 2021
- 4 min
Caring for the Caregiver: How Others Can Support Us
One of the first acts of self-care that I took on when I was caregiving was a monthly deep-tissue massage. My first session was a gift,...
Dayna Steele
- Sep 16, 2021
- 3 min
It’s Okay For Caregivers To Ask For Help
You DO need help; you are a caregiver. Once you have done it a few times, it gets easier. You are a caregiver. You deserve it.
Debbie Howard
- Sep 1, 2021
- 4 min
An Essential Checklist for Caregivers of Dementia
Recently, a caregiver wrote us giving her best advice as an Alzheimer’s caregiver for her mom. Here we expand on what she shared.
Beth Gibbs
- Aug 11, 2021
- 3 min
Meeting The Caregiving Challenge Through Grounding
Grounding encourages and deepens feelings of calmness, safety, and security, which in turn can help you manage your stress level.
Caregiver Wellness Retreat
- Jul 2, 2021
- 3 min
Why Caregivers Should Accept Help
1 in 5 Americans are currently serving as a caregiver, providing help to ill or disabled persons almost all, every day.
Beth Gibbs
- May 20, 2021
- 3 min
Essential Self-Care For Caregivers
The best and most important way to jump-start your self-care routine is to manage your stress levels.
Kim Wilson-Lawson
- Apr 22, 2021
- 3 min
Brushing Away Stress
We will concentrate over the next few months on some of the “Do’s” that we should practice as a caregiver. After all you deserve it!
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