About 18 years ago (wow!), I helped friends care for an 81-year-old woman named Evie. I can remember managing her incontinence like it was yesterday. Incontinence has a way of staying with you. She wore Depends during the day, which she hated. The dressing-for-the-day ritual included her throwing the Depends against the wall and stating, [...]
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We’ve received our first entry for our What’s in Your Caregiving Closet? contest. Donna W., one of bloggers, sent the two photos, below, of a Caregiving Étagère, the hub of her mom’s room for her supplies and care. She also sent a photo of the communication board she created for the respite caregivers to use [...]
Today on Your Caregiving Journey, Becky Lowry, training director, and Nancy Hanley, RN, team manager, from MyHealthCareManager, shared tips on how to create a caregiving closet. (You can listen to our show via the player at the bottom of the post.) The purpose of your caregiving closet is to organize personal care items that you [...]
Yesterday, Jeannie Keenan, RN, of My Health Care Manager joined us for a discussion on Your Caregiving Journey about constipation and bowel incontinence. Because a few members of our online support groups have been struggling with their care recipients’ bowel incontinence, we thought this would be a timely topic. You can listen to the show [...]
by Gary Hirsch, adviser to online incontinence care products provider SecurePersonalCare.com. The following article, Go Green & Save Money on Adult Diapers in One Simple Step, originally appeared on Gilbert Guide and is re-printed courtesy of Gilbert Guide, Inc. Copyright © 2009, Gilbert Guide, Inc. The economy isn’t the only thing that could use a [...]
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By Gary Hirsch, adviser to online incontinence care products provider SecurePersonalCare.com. The following article, Going Green in Adult Diapers: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint, originally appeared on Gilbert Guide and is re-printed courtesy of Gilbert Guide, Inc. Copyright © 2009, Gilbert Guide, Inc. It is technically feasible to compost adult diapers, although our current economic, legislative [...]
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Yesterday, Jeannie Keenan of My Health Care Manager joined us for our monthly discussion on Your Caregiving Journey. You can listen to our show via the player, below. We mentioned the following resources on our show: The Alzheimer’s Project; you can watch the series online. The UCSF Memory and Aging Center has a YouTube channel [...]
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When I first started writing about caregiving, I had worked with family caregivers in home health care settings (linking family caregivers to respite services) and in nursing homes (helping them admit their care recipient to the facility). But, I had never provided direct hands-on care. When the opportunity to work as a private-duty caregiver for [...]
Dear Denise, I am caring for my husband and having difficulty trying to find someone to contact in case of an emergency late at night. I manage fine during the day and get some help but last night he lost control of his bladder and soaked the bed, his clothing etc. I was unable to [...]
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