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Caregiver Well-Being & self care

Below are the best resources we could find on Caregiver Well-Being and self care.

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Embodied Self-Care for the Military and Veteran Caregiver

Yoga for caregivers is a potent self-care, embodied practice that caregivers can use to adjust to the physical and invisible wounds of war.

Pamela Stokes Eggleston

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Caregiving Both Ways: A Guide to Caring for a Loved One with Dementia (and Yourself!)

When a parent, spouse, sibling, or loved one is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, it can be difficult to know what to do. Your day can spiral into a never-ending series of tasks and attempts to communicate that leave you both frustrated.

Molly Wisniewski

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Tips for Caregivers and Families of People with Dementia

Early on in Alzheimer’s and related dementias, people experience changes in thinking, remembering, and reasoning in a way that affects daily life and activities. Eventually, people with these diseases will need more help with simple, everyday tasks.

Alzheimers.gov staff

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Finding the Light in Dementia: A Guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers

Want to reconnect with your loved one living with dementia? Learn what to say & do from a Dementia Nurse Specialist & care with confidence.

Jane M. Mullins

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Caregiving and Complicated Family Dynamics

Family violence is a dynamic process, not an event, that takes varying shapes and forms, often over years, and it can be lodged in caregiving. Caregiving, also a process and not an event, can be lodged in a context of family violence.

Deborah J. Cohan

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A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents—and Ourselves

When Jane Gross found herself suddenly thrust into a caretaker role for her eighty-five year-old mother, she was forced to face challenges that she had never imagined.

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4 Tips for Better Sleep While Caregiving

Adequate sleep — generally seven to eight hours per night — has restorative powers. Too little sleep has been associated with increased appetite, higher rates of depression and anxiety, more frequent traffic accidents, memory problems and more.

Barry J. Jacobs

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Holding the Net: Caring for My Mother on the Tightrope of Aging

A Caregiving.com choice for Best Caregiving Book of 2017, this poignant and timely memoir was also named American Book Fest’s 2017 Best Book Award Winner for Autobiography/Memoir.

Melanie P. Merriman

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Seeking that Elusive Good Night Sleep

Caregivers often find themselves exhausted at the end of the day, but many are still not able to sleep.

Family Caregiver Alliance Staff

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6 Reasons Caregivers Need More Sleep

Caregiver respite can be hard to work out, but it should be a priority in any elder care plan. Take the following reminders to heart when making care decisions, especially those that affect your ability to sleep through the night.

Anne-Marie Botek

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