Caregiving does not discriminate. No matter what your background or socio-economic status may be, the chances are extremely high that caregiving will touch your life…
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Supporting at Home Caregiver Employees
I’ve recently worked with human resource (HR) leaders from a range of organizations to strengthen their internal support for employees with family caregiving responsibilities at…
Am I a Caregiver? The Significance of Self-Identification
“Am I a caregiver?” She looked at me quizzically. She had just recounted all the things she was now doing for her husband. Things she…
How to Know When Caregiving Experience Requires a Change in Your Thinking
In last month’s blog post, I introduced the idea of charting your caregiving experience. You can do this by creating a crude X- and Y-…
How to Chart Your Caregiving Experience: Insights on the Dynamics of Care
I have been thinking about a Rand Corporation study[1] that sought to explain, organize, and quantify the various trajectories of chronic illness that we commonly…
From Mindset to Mindshift: The Inevitable Path of Family Caregivers
I recently delivered the keynote address at the Baltimore County Department of Aging’s Annual Caregiver Conference. The theme of the conference was “It’s All About…
