by Denise
May 16 2013 in Friday Chat, Working and Caregiving by Denise
How do you manage a caregiving crisis and your job? In this video chat, @Trish shares how she manages her brother’s recent hospitalization and her work load. Cali Williams Yost, author of TWEAK IT: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day, discusses tips on communicating with your boss and co-workers when a caregiving crisis [...]
by Denise
Apr 10 2013 in Friday Chat, Working and Caregiving by Denise
On April 12, I hosted a video chat on Google Hangouts to discuss managing a career and a caregiving experience. You can watch our discussion via the video at the bottom of the post. The panel of family caregivers includes: –Chris, who works for a social service agency and cares for his partner. Chris blogs [...]
by Denise
Apr 5 2013 in Your Caregiving Journey by Denise
Last night, on Your Caregiving Journey, Kathleen ( @kayepeanyc ) joined me to tell us how she’s doing as she adjusts to her full-time job and continues to care for her mom and her aunt. Kathleen’s caregiving story began after losing her corporate job in 2008. Within a short period of time, she found herself [...]
by Denise
Mar 21 2013 in Your Caregiving Journey by Denise
This morning, on Your Caregiving Journey, Heather joined me to continue our conversation about her gap year–a year that she moved her family temporarily to help her mom care for her father. You can listen to our show via the player below. Last month, Heather joined me to share her decision to move her family [...]
by Denise
Mar 5 2013 in Your Caregiving Journey by Denise
This afternoon, @Trish and Cali Williams Yost, author of Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day, joined me on Your Caregiving Journey to talk about pitching a policy change to your employer. You can listen to our show via the player below. Trish shared her story of asking her employer to agree [...]
by Denise
Mar 4 2013 in Life Line by Denise
When our companies give us flexible work schedules, we can be available when life calls us to do our most important work. If this Life Line, I reflect on our life’s most important work, which happens outside the cube. You can read more about my thoughts on Yahoo’s decision to require workers to report to [...]
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Mar 1 2013 in Six-Word Stories by Denise
Last week, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO, announced employees must now report to work in Yahoo’s office. Employees can no longer work from home. An announcement like this leads to discussions about company policies which help (and sometimes hinder) an employee’s ability to find time for their career and their family. We discussed this a bit [...]
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Feb 28 2013 in Your Caregiving Journey by Denise
This morning on Your Caregiving Journey, Heather, who helps care for her father, joined me to share her caregiving story. You can listen to our show via the player below. Heather, her husband and their son live miles away from her parents. When her mother became overwhelmed from caring for her father and her great [...]
by Denise
Feb 22 2013 in Your Caregiving Journey by Denise
This afternoon, Kathleen (@MimbyNYC) joined me on Your Caregiving Journey to share her caregiving story. You can listen to our show via the player, below. Kathleen’s caregiving story began after losing her corporate job in 2008. Within a short period of time, she found herself looking for a job while looking after her dad, her [...]
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Feb 12 2013 in Your Caregiving Journey by Denise
The Family Medical Leave Act turned 20 last week. In honor of its birthday, Trish (@trish) and I chatted on Saturday’s Table Talk about how FMLA could be improved to meet the changing needs of family caregivers. You can listen to our show via the player, below. Currently, under FMLA, employees working for an employer [...]
by G-J
Jan 21 2013 in Caring for Spouse and Kids by G-J
Our family consists of me, my husband who has Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and our son who is a 16-year-old high school junior, plus our cat. I have been a stay-at-home mom since our son was born. Actually, I don’t know any stay-at-home mom who does. The moms I know who do not work outside [...]
by Denise
Jan 8 2013 in Denise's Blog by Denise
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) turns 20 in February and The National Partnership for Women and Children wants to hear your stories. How has the FMLA benefited you? Have you taken leave to care for your caree? Or have you been unable to afford the unpaid leave the law provides? Share your story [...]
by Denise
Jan 7 2013 in Your Caregiving Journey by Denise
Today, on Your Caregiving Journey, Cali Williams Yost, author of TWEAK IT: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day joined me to discuss fitting together a career and a caregiving role. You can listen to our show via the player, below. Cali and I spoke about how you can put controls in your life [...]
by Denise
Dec 17 2012 in Denise's Blog by Denise
Cali Williams Yost, whose new book, Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day, will be released on January 8, believes we’re creating problems for ourselves by trying to find a balance between our work life and our personal life. She wants us to forget about balance and instead embrace fit. Who will [...]
by Denise
Nov 26 2012 in Disrupt by Denise
I just finished watching and listening to Trish share her caregiving story during a segment on Huffington Post Live called Take Good Care. She was wonderful!! She disrupted, as we like to say. You can watch the segment below. Related articles Now Available: Your Gifts Book (caregiving.com) Now Available: 2013 Calendar (caregiving.com) Your Marketability [...]
by Denise
Nov 13 2012 in Your Caregiving Journey by Denise
On Saturday, Trish joined me for our monthly chat about working and caregiving on Table Talk on Your Caregiving Journey. You can listen to our show via the player below. During our discussion, we spoke about all those critical skills you hone during caregiving which become so important in your career. Because you care, you [...]
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Oct 29 2012 in Denise's Blog, Your Caregiving Journey by Denise
On Saturday, Trish joined me for Table Talk on Your Caregiving Journey. Trish, who cares for her brother and works as a legal administrator, joins me monthly to talk about issues facing working family caregivers. You can listen to Saturday’s show via the player below. During our show, we talked about the importance of communication [...]
by Denise
Jul 20 2012 in Disrupt by Denise
Earlier this week, Yahoo! announced it had hired a new CEO. On that same day, that new CEO, Marissa Mayer, announced she was expecting her first child in October. She’s the highest-profile pregnant woman hired as a CEO. That of course makes me wonder when we’ll reach another milestone–when a CEO talks about his or [...]
by Denise
Jun 14 2012 in Denise's Blog, In The News by Denise
A major new report on the dramatic toll Alzheimer’s disease is taking on women in the U.S., who are shown to be the primary caregivers for loved ones, reveals an increasing cost to their personal and professional lives as well as their pocketbooks. The study entitled Women and Alzheimer’s Disease: The Caregiver’s Crisis, surveyed 1,204 [...]
by Denise
Jan 12 2012 in Denise's Blog, e-Books by Denise
Susan starts her day at 5 a.m. so she has a few moments alone to write in her journal. Then, it starts: Getting ready for work, waking her mom, waiting for the home health aide, updating the aide on the previous night, checking with her husband about which errands they’ll each run at lunch, then [...]
by Denise
Aug 27 2011 in Denise's Blog, Tell Us by Denise
The New York Times published an article this afternoon with tips on how to manage work while you’re caregiving. (You can read the article here.) The tips mentioned in the article include: using the Family and Medical Leave Act in order to create plans, manage emergencies, transition your caree into another care setting; checking with [...]
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The Discussion Around Yahoo’s Decision Bothers Me
Mar 4 2013 in Denise's Blog by Denise
On February 22, news broke that Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO, announced to her employees that they no longer could work from home–everyone must report to the office. Since then, I’ve read several articles and watched several pundits discussing this decision. And, in the majority of the conversations about Yahoo’s new policy, the focus is on [...]
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