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My Grandparents’ Mailbox Was Out of Control!

Posted on 02/5/2013 by | All the news that matters for Illinoisans over 50. | Comments

Your LifeHello, everyone! It’s Jenn from the Illinois Communications team. I’d like to share an experience that I recently had. The deeper into it I got the more perturbed I became. About a month ago I became a caregiver for my grandparents. (Best grandparents ever, BTW.) Due to some recent health and memory issues they decided it was time to move into a pretty posh assisted living facility in their home town (I’d love to move in too! Hello WiFi, whirlpool, …

The High Cost of Caregiving

Posted on 05/1/2012 by | Home & Family blogger | Comments

Caregiving | Home & Family | Your LifeBy Mary Hickey Caring for an older family member is costly to both families and employers — and it’s time for the workplace to develop policies to help people juggle the competing demands of work and caregiving responsibilities. That was the bottom-line message from Cheryl Matheis, senior vice president of policy for AARP, who was interviewed on National Public Radio this morning as part of an ongoing series on caregiving. “When people have to leave their jobs [to care for …

Caregivers: Reach Out and Call Someone

Posted on 02/10/2012 by | Caregiving | Comments

Caregiving | Home & FamilyIn the same year Margie Harris’s marriage imploded, her elderly mother had a stroke and moved into her San Antonio home. A big enough disaster, but her mother had been living with, and taking care of, Harris’s blind brother. Talk about stress! It turns out, that’s exactly what Harris, 59, wanted to do–talk about stress with other overwhelmed caregivers. But, she had no time to leave the house. Not a problem, thanks to The Caregivers Tele-Connection, a free one-hour telephone program …

Don’t Miss Our December 1st Caregiving Forum!

Posted on 11/22/2011 by | Aging, Home & Family Expert | Comments

Caregiving | Relationships | Your LifeOne of our biggest challenges for caregivers is finding time to take advantage of all the wisdom and resources available to us. Over the past 25 years, I’ve  participated in many workshops and swapped stories and solutions with fellow professionals and caregivers. I’ve also written a lot and read many good books and articles. Still, I find there is always something new to learn and share: new housing and care options cropping up all over the nation; new treatment discoveries; …

Depression & Caregiving

Posted on 07/15/2011 by | Home & Family blogger | Comments

Home & FamilyEvery other Wednesday there is a Twitter chat around caregiving. Each time a different topic is discussed and those in the caregiving community — both family caregivers and caregiving professionals — weigh in. Here are highlights from the July 13 chat that focused on Depression & Caregiving: