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Volume Order Form The Caregiving Years Six Stages to a Meaningful Journey The Caregiving Years helps family caregivers of aging relatives answer these questions: Why me? Why now? What now? Follow the journey of two family caregivers as they make their way through the six stages of caregiving. The handbook includes pages for your thoughts and insights, as well as two tip sheets for quick references to the stages,...

Warm

Does it feel colder in your house than it does outside? Caregiving–and all its heartbreaks and heartaches–can seem to harden hearts. The hearts may harden simply to survive; a hard heart can’t feel any more pain. Warm your heart by giving room to forgiveness. Forgive–your care recipient, the illness or disease, the health care system, your family and friends, and your faith. Most...

UCLA Technology & Aging Conference Will Be Held October 30

The UCLA Center on Aging will host its second UCLA Technology & Aging Conference on Friday, October 30, 2009, at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. This one-day event will bring together academic and industry leaders to share how the latest technologies in the medical, consumer and lifestyle fields will help older adults live better, longer lives. Speakers and panelists will be presenting...

Twelve States Receive Funds for Family Caregiver Respite

Twelve grantees will develop and enhance coordinated, accessible, community-based respite care programs for caregivers across the lifespan. Recognizing the daily sacrifices and challenges faced by family caregivers across the nation who work tirelessly to keep their loved ones at home, HHS Assistant Secretary for Aging Kathy Greenlee announced 12 awards totaling nearly $2.3 million to implement the Lifespan Respite...

The Sunshine and the Rain of Caregiving

It is a rather cold dreary day outside, as I write my blog. We have been having some rainy days of late also. I guess we all prefer the warm sunny days, but we need the rain also. What a picture of our lives also. The plants would shrivel up and die, if they received only sunshine and no rain. So we also would shrivel up into something undesirable, if we did not have the rain and the storms in our...

Ask Denise: How Can We Be Alerted When She Gets Up?

Dear Denise, I wish there was a way of getting something which would let us know when my grandmother gets up from a nap or in the morning. For instance this morning, she got up before any of us were up, and tried to go outside on her own. My brother leaves very early in the morning, and I don’t want the alarm to go off and wake everyone else up. Do you happen to know if there’s something that would just...