Last week, we confirmed that 4 of 5 people will have thrown in the towel on their New Year’s Resolutions by March 1st. Care to know another reason why? They’re missing a key step.Read More
“The Wits-End Caregiver”
Yup, that’s exactly how you feel. Forget sucking it up! Try some real tips and tools based in lived experience so you stop feeling like a burnt-out triple-decker grilled cheese sandwich. Your courageous advocate Carol-Ann says it like it is. And that’s no bologna!
Is 2019 Your Year to Stop Your Eldercare Frustration?
Do you burn tons of energy “psyching up” to deal with your impossible aging parents but still feel like pulling out your hair? Do you regularly clamp down on what you really want to say to the difficult duo? Are you physically and emotionally exhausted by them?Read More
Now Serving: Turkey & Emotional Triggers
The Thanksgiving hoopla is hours away. So, what to do when you really just want to turkey-drop your relatives? Are you tired of playing cop or walking on eggshells? Then, let’s find out how to contend with three common caregiver triggers.Read More
Brace for the Thanksgiving Madness
For Thanksgiving 2018, the American Automobile Association expects 54 million U.S. residents to travel at least 50 miles from home – the highest number since 2005. While sometimes easier to push away Un-cope-able Parents’ and other aging relatives’ temper tantrums at summer’s sunny height, you’re about to be smacked with full-blown holiday madness. In this first of two parts, let’s get ahead of the stressful curve. Shall we?Read More
The Big WHY of COMPLETE Caregiver SUPPORT
Throughout my sharing of the COMPLETE SUPPORT acronym, my consistent purpose has been to call out those who claim to serve aging populations (in healthcare, legal, insurance, financial, automobile, real estate, funeral and other realms) but are nowhere to be found when you desperately need them.Read More
The Caregiver’s COMPLETE SUPPORT System
Here we are… We have shared a series of weeks defining the COMPLETE SUPPORT to which you are entitled from government, institutions and agencies as a caregiver to aging parents or relatives, a significant other, friends, neighbors or even colleagues. Today’s post summarizes the elements of this important acronym for your ongoing reference.Read More
What TRUTH Does Your Care Provider Need to Hear?
How about we next travel from Respect to Truth as we complete the SUPPORT acronym outlining what every caregiver deserves? Let’s change that to demand! That is, from facilities, agencies and organizations who purport to stand for aging populations but are nowhere to be found when you need them most.Read More
Where Is Your Care Provider’s RESPECT?
Which comes first? Respect or respect? Are you as perplexed by this odd question as participants of my leadership development, performance coaching and communication skills programs have been in corporate Canada for over 30 years? If so, good!Read More
Is Your Care Provider ORGANIZED?
We’re rapidly making our way through the SUPPORT acronym of the COMPLETE SUPPORT you deserve as a caregiver. We’ve already detailed the importance of Sustainability, Uncompromising (standards), Professionalism and Presence.Read More
How PRESENT Is Your Care Provider?
As spiritual teacher and former clinical psychologist, Ram Daas, says in his book by the same title: “Be here now.”
Easier said than done for caregivers and care providers alike! Each face so many competing daily priorities, it’s challenging (to say the least) to remain focused on everything that needs to get done. Still, there are some distinct things that service providers can do to ease stress for all concerned.Read More
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