TWENTY-ONE WAYS FRIENDS AND FAMILY CAN HELP CAREGIVERS
I shared this image on the Caregivers’ Living Room Facebook Page this morning and it got me thinking of all the ways that friends and family members can help caregiving…
personal support networks
How Local Communities Can Help Caregivers
If you imagine a caregiver at the beginning of a care journey, he or she might be represented as a dot on the map of a neighbourhood. She would be…
How Local Communities Can Help Caregivers
If you imagine a caregiver at the beginning of a care journey, he or she might be represented as a dot on the map of a neighbourhood. She would be…
HOME: The Making of a Sanctuary
Guest Post by Vickie Cammack (Originally published in Safe and Secure: Six Steps to Creating a Good Life for People with Disabilities by Al Etmanski)For one glorious summer in the…
Technology & Teamwork Can Ease Transition for Kids With Disabilities
For most, high school graduation is a happy and hopeful celebration as parents launch their children into a successful, independent life. But there’s an expression that parents of children with…
LIFE GETS EASIER WITH CONNECTION TO A CIRCLE OF CARE
This week, I was honoured to contribute an article to The Home Care Technology Report, a publication of Rowan Consulting Associates. Tim Rowan is a consultant and information broker on…
Envisioning a Better Future for Caregivers
Arthur Kleinman understands families like mine. I know he does, because he wrote this: The chronically ill often are like those trapped at a frontier, wandering confused in a poorly…