Choosing between work and and caring for an elder
How do you deal with an employer who is pushing you to make the choice between work and caring for your elder?
This week’s question came from a caregiver having a hard time at work. She takes care of her mother who is afflicted with Parkinson’ s Disease. Already in a stressful situation, her boss doesn’t [...]
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What is Palliative Care?
It focuses on the relief of pain and other symptoms of serious illness. This is to provide the patient with the best quality of life and ease the suffering.
Palliative Care vs… Continue reading
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Lately it seems that more and more supposed “prevention cures” are being discovered to help stem the onset of dementia. I look at these with a cautious optimism, mostly because my mom did in fact do alot of what… Continue reading
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A few months ago, my husband and I were watching a news special featuring a Computer Science Instructor at the University of Virginia who was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Let’s just say that by the end of the story, I was sobbing. My husband and… Continue reading
