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Video Chat: Managing a Caregiving Crisis

May 16 2013 in , by Denise

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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 [...]

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Video Chat: Working and Caregiving

Apr 10 2013 in , by Denise

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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 [...]

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Caring for Two and Starting a New Job

Apr 5 2013 in by Denise

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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 [...]

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Start From What You Want

Mar 21 2013 in by Denise

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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 [...]

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Pitching a Policy Change to Your Employer

Mar 5 2013 in by Denise

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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 [...]

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The Discussion Around Yahoo’s Decision Bothers Me

Mar 4 2013 in by Denise

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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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A Life Line: Our Most Important Work Happens Outside the Cube

Mar 4 2013 in by Denise

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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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In Six Words: When You Have It All, What Do You Have?

Mar 1 2013 in 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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A Workable Solution for the Problem of Distance

Feb 28 2013 in 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 [...]

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Looking for Work While Navigating Caregiving

Feb 22 2013 in by Denise

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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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FMLA and the Working Family Caregiver

Feb 12 2013 in 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 [...]

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A Glimpse of the Future

Jan 21 2013 in 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 [...]

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Share Your FMLA Story

Jan 8 2013 in 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 [...]

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Caregiving and Your Career: What Do You Want?

Jan 7 2013 in 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 [...]

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Finding Your Fit with a Career and Caregiving

Dec 17 2012 in 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 [...]

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Trish Shares Her Story on Huffington Post Live

Nov 26 2012 in by Denise

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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 [...]

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Your Marketability Because of Caregiving

Nov 13 2012 in by Denise

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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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When Work and Caregiving Call on the Same Line

Oct 29 2012 in , 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 [...]

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When We Will Meet the New CEO Who’s Also a Family Caregiver?

Jul 20 2012 in 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 [...]

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New Study Shows The Stress of Working, Caring

Jun 14 2012 in , 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 [...]

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The Working Family Caregiver, a Free E-Book

Jan 12 2012 in , 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 [...]

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How Do You Manage Caregiving and Your Career?

Aug 27 2011 in , 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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