In Home Care: Balancing a Loved One's Needs With Your Own When you're a caregiver, finding time to take care of your own health can be challenging — but doing so will help both you and your loved one. By Krisha McCoy, MS Do you provide assistance for an older person who needs care? People [...]
Older Patients, Wiser Care Should You Tell Someone He or She Has Alzheimer’s? By Leslie Kernisan, M.D., Caring.com Senior Medical Editor Dear Dr. Kernisan: Should an elderly person (83) be told that she’s been diagnosed as being in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and what to expect as the disease progresses? –Caring.com community member [...]
June 13-19: Help Bring Awareness During Men's Health Week in Nashville TN Goal of Men’s Health Week June 13-19 The purpose of Men’s Health Week is to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. This week gives health care providers, public policy makers, [...]
2011 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures alzheimers.org Recent surveys show: There are nearly 15 million Alzheimer’s and dementia caregivers providing 17 billion hours of unpaid care valued at more than $202 billion. Alzheimer’s disease is the nation’s largest underfunded public health threat with an estimated 5.4 million Americans living with the disease. Alzheimer’s is the [...]
Taking a Vacation from Caregiving – Part 1: How to Know When we Need a Break by Carol Bradley Bursack, Editor-in-Chief Caregivers can get so caught up in daily tasks and obligations that they don’t even notice that the ongoing stress of caregiving may be causing them physical and emotional problems. How do caregivers stay [...]