"☔ ⛅
Greetings ,
"April showers bring May flowers"... That's one of my earliest rhyming memories. And it still brings a smile to my face when I hear it. These little triggers of happiness and insight are what we strive to create here at The Caregiver Space ... to gently keep us positive in our daily work. Sometimes it means confronting personal realities, other times it's keeping up on government and non-profit initiatives.
These two issues lead off our Weekly Digest Links... just the tip of our iceberg of articles, media posts & salient information. Yet it need not be a traditional one way conversation.
Get involved in our online chats, our topical forums or post your own Instagram to help us all imagine your world. Another one of those rhyming memories comes to mind, "Sharing is caring"
On Tuesday, into the night, and now also on Thursdays, Bob Harrison hosts the Care Chats. Every Tuesday evening, 10pm EST (9pm CST, 7pm PST) he'll moderate and listen as only a fellow caregiver and loving widower can. On Thursday it's all about Bereavement and Loneliness. Click in on the graphic below or follow the 3 clicks to get your chat on. As always, we'll leave the chat history live through the weekend for folks who can't "tune in" at the appointed hour. You can read through the discussion and share the sentiments and sharing whenever you have time in the week.
This month, our prompt asks us to dig a little to find clarity of emotions.. It's important to acknowledge within ourselves the variety of often conflicting feelings.. spending three breaths with each one.. What drives us? what holds us together? What emotions need tending towards. it's the fourth link below, taking you to The Page Listens forum. (Prefer to take your time with more thoughtful answers?? Paste the Forum Title & Header into your email composer. To get back to it when you have some free time, save it as a draft after each update and edit. til your ready to post.)
Let us help empower you. Join our online community.
So Scroll down and click away. The links and previews of selected posts fall just after this intro. As ever we trail off with a post from our friends at The Mighty.
In the spirit of caregiving,,
Paul Nocera
Director, Community Engagement
Paul@theCaregiverSpace.org
Dire Financial Fallout for Cancer Survivors
An analysis of US data from 2011 indicates that nearly 29 percent of cancer survivors are financially burdened as a result of their cancer diagnosis and/or treatment. The study reveals that such hardships can have lasting physical and mental effects on cancer survivors.
Posted on April 15, 2016
DoJ Launches 10 Regional Elder Justice Task Forces
The Department of Justice has announced the launch of 10 regional Elder Justice Task Forces. These teams will bring together federal, state and local prosecutors, law enforcement, and agencies that provide services to the elderly, to coordinate and enhance efforts to pursue nursing homes that provide grossly substandard care to their residents.
Post on: April 5, 2016
Our regular blogger and author of "Because of Annie", Bob Harrison, hosts the Spousal Care Chats every Tuesday night, and now ads a Bereavement /Loneliness Chat on Thursday night. You're just three clicks from chatting.. using the graphic to the right as your guide.
We'll leave up the chat through the weekend for folks who can't "tune in" at the appointed hour.. you can read through the discussion and share the sentiments and sharing though the week
Every Tuesday & now Thursday nights.
10pm EST / 9pm CST / 7pm PST
using the Chat on TheCaregiverSpace.org
Click the link, and join the forum.
the Focus for April 2016 is...
EMOTIONAL CLARITY ~ MOVING TARGET OR PSYCHIC MONOLITH
Achieving emotional clarity is probably the single most ignored priority in a caregiver’s task list. Clarity requires we dig a little.
Need to talk? Click on...
Visit the forums!
'Pathfinders for Autism' Launches #SayItIn68 for Autism Awareness Month
This week I’m honoring Madison, my 24-year-old daughter with autism. My inspiration comes from a challenge by Pathfinders for Autism, the nonprofit I was privileged to help found 16 years ago.
In the spring of 1997, a few months after my paralysis, I joined a small group of parents of children with autism who were frustrated with the lack of guidance we were receiving from the medical and educational professionals. In those pre-internet days, we often relied on information shared between parents in the waiting rooms, carpool lines or, in my case, from a small yellow flyer in my then 5-year-old Madison’s school backpack that changed her life.
Posted on April 14, 2016 by Rebecca Faye Smith Galli