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Health Care? Daughters Know All About It

By Roni Caryn Rabin — 2017

The essential role that daughters play in the American health care system is well known but has received little attention. But some health care analysts are beginning to sound the alarm about the challenges women face as caregivers — not just for children but for aging parents — often while holding full-time jobs.

Read on www.nytimes.com

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The Caregiver’s Guide to Cancer: Compassionate Advice for Caring for You and Your Loved One

Looking after someone with cancer can be complex, overwhelming, and emotionally draining all at once. As a caregiver, you may also overlook your own well-being while you focus on your loved one.

Victoria Landes

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The Nightingale Gene: Lessons to Living a Balanced Life and Having the Nursing Career of Your Dreams

The Nightingale Gene provides lessons for those who make caring for others a priority over taking care of themselves.

Jayne Van Brunt

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Caregivers Ask: How Can I Manage When My Elderly Parent with Dementia Is Taking Advantage of Me?

In this video, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson discussed the inability of elderly parents with dementia to recognize the effect of their behaviors on others. Elderly parents with dementia are vulnerable and helpless.

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Top 3 Signs Your Loved One with Dementia Needs Nursing Home Care

In today’s video, we talk about the top 3 reasons why people consider nursing home care for their loved ones with dementia. The three reasons include: safety concerns, loss of bowel control, and extreme caregiver stress and burnout.

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Learning Not to Argue—Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease

Caregiver tips for learning to accept a different reality, for being patient and kind.

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The Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiver’s Handbook: What to Remember When They Forget

When a loved one shows signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, you will face challenges for which you feel ill-prepared.

Dr. Sally Willard Burbank, Sue Pace Bell

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The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home

Providing dementia care is profoundly stressful for families and caregivers. People with dementia or Alzheimer’s experience emotional distress, which leads to behavioral complications and the need for institutional care.

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The Selfish Pig’s Guide to Caring

Hugh Marriott has written a humorous self-help manual that brings into the open everything the author wishes he’d been told when he first became a carer (aka caregiver), a job that is long, lonely, and difficult yet there is limited support and no formal training.

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Things I Wish I’d Known: Cancer Caregivers Speak Out

Nearly three-quarters of American households will find themselves caring for a cancer patient at one point in their lives. Based on formal interviews with nonprofessional caregivers, this book is the first to capture their thoughts, feelings, and insights on a large scale.

Deborah J. Cornwall

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Compassion Fatigue: What Is It and Do You Have It? | Juliette Watt | TEDxFargo

In this compelling talk, Juliette introduces us to “Compassion Fatigue.” A hugely pervasive syndrome that not only affects people like professional caregivers but also most of us one way or another.

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