Vision Boards – Adding Hope to Caregivers ” I have a dream…………”. We all recognize that line from Martin Luther King’s famous speech. But how many of us have forgotten that WE had a dream? I know I did. But one of my new year’s goals was to make a vision board…..as seen to the left…….and in [...]
Finding Your Why It’s autumn and most kids have returned to school. And while I haven’t returned to any formal institutional education, I am in the midst of an intensive business course. One of the questions our instructor asked us today was “What is the reason that you are in business? What is your “why”….and [...]
This post comes straight from the pages of SeniorHomes.com, for whom I am a contributing writer. In honor of National Family Caregiver Month (which is November), they will be highlighting caregivers and their personal stories. “ From October 25th to November 11th, we will be accepting story submissions from both professional and home caregivers who devote [...]
As caregivers, we all love a good deal, especially in this economy. Shopping at one of the various dollar stores (The Dollar Store, The Dollar Tree, The 99 Cent Store, etc.) can shave quite a bit off your monthly household and caregiving budget. The most important thing to keep in mind when shopping at these [...]
10 Ways To Create a Better Day by Shelley Wednesdays can be difficult…3 days away from the remembrance of a relaxing week-end and yet 3 more days until the next one rolls around…and still SO much to do. I needed some inspiration today and so I opened up my iTunes and chose Enya’s “Paint the [...]
Clearing Your Mental Desk by Shelley As caregivers, we have many projects awaiting our attention. Weekly meal plans accompanied by grocery lists, creating a map of the quickest roundtrip route to use in order to accomplish the most errands in one day, arranging to have all necessary community resources and equipment in place for the arrival of [...]
Is it just my age or are an increasing number of people becoming more spiritual – searching for their purpose in life, a spiritual connection or are attempting to create a closer walk with their God? I’m hearing a lot about finding joy, being grateful, choosing to be happy and being at peace. Is it because the [...]
It would seem obvious that guilt and regret are two very different emotions but when examined more closely, they have many of the same characteristics and can often be confused, one for the other. In order to fix the mistakes that we may have made or to move forward emotionally, we need to be able [...]
It’s no secret that communicating with parents who suffer from dementia is difficult, especially in the latter stages of the disease. So what can we do to communicate our love to a person who may not even remember who we are? The answer may be to look at ways in which they expressed their love to [...]
During the last weeks and days of my father’s life, family and friends came to visit him and pay their last respects. Unfortunately, my daughter was not able to visit him before my father moved into the last stages of dementia. A negative experience at the hospital caused him to experience delirium and then to decline [...]
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