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Caregiving Notes: January 2006
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Helpful Information for Family Caregivers. Saturday, January 28, 2006. Thoughts on Life Balance, Life Planning, and Time Management for Caregivers. Life Balance is elusive. The concept is simple everything important gets it fair share of time, energy, and resources. Theoretically, you can figure out what’s important, how much time, energy, and resources it should get, construct a plan, and follow it. Most of the time our plans fail because of the interruptions. The unexpected and the unplanned. He treate...
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Caregiving Notes: October 2005
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Helpful Information for Family Caregivers. Saturday, October 29, 2005. There are two types of Caregiver Abuse:. Caregiver (usually a paid caregiver) abuses a care receiver. Abuse can range from withholding care to physical violence. Care Receiver abuses caregiver. Most common is verbal abuse, but there can also be physical abuse. Frequently abusive behavior develops with dementia, but abuse can also occur without dementia. The abuse may or may not be related to previous abusive behavior. One of the Ten C...
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Caregiving Notes: August 2005
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Helpful Information for Family Caregivers. Wednesday, August 31, 2005. I have the right to ask for help when needed. I should not feel guilty about not being able to do it on my own. I can ask family members for assistance. I have the right to seek help outside of my family. If I am unhappy with a program, I may remove my loved one. I have the right to feel emotional. I may be depressed one day, but happy the next. I may cry today, but laugh tomorrow. Posted by Jim Hughes at 8/31/2005 04:47:00 PM. The go...
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Caregiving Notes: September 2005
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Helpful Information for Family Caregivers. Sunday, September 18, 2005. Article: "Help for Aging Parents, and for Yourself". There's a great article in today's NY Times. About caregivers caught in the sandwich - caring for their aging parents as well as raising children. The basic message is that it's important to draw boundaries to meet needs of everyone, including taking care of yourself. Posted by Jim Hughes at 9/18/2005 08:37:00 PM. Saturday, September 17, 2005. Here are three articles available on th...
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Caregiving Notes: February 2006
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Helpful Information for Family Caregivers. Saturday, February 18, 2006. I had this person I knew I was made to be, yet it was mixed in with all of these otherpeople. I had this false sense of guilt and subsequent shame because I believed deep down that I wasn’t working hard enough. And I believed the not-working-hard-enough lie because I didn’t function like superpastor, who isn’t real anyway. So I had one choice I had to kill superpastor. And the only way not to be killed by it is to shoot first. What i...
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Caregiving Notes: November 2005
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Helpful Information for Family Caregivers. Saturday, November 12, 2005. Some of us grew up with a belief that said, If I don’t get that final prayer asking forgiveness in before I die, I’ll be lost. We were so focused on what WE needed to do that we believed that our salvation depended on us doing the right things. After quieting the winds and the waves, Jesus asked them, Why are you so afraid? Do you still not have faith in me? Before I judge the faith of the disciples and find them lacking, I need to r...