🌾 🐝 ⛅ May's Promise ⛅ 🐝 🌾
Greetings ,
May's Promise... as the sun hangs longer in the sky, and warmth creeps in ever so slowly. This is the time our thoughts move ahead two beats... Making space for new activity, giving hope for some restoration of our energies, perhaps even some needed downtime.
Here at The Caregiver Space we are looking forward as well. We want our site to help energize you and give you focus. Consider this your 'go-to list' when you want to recharge your caregiving self.
Readable ~ direct posts to our website, a full featured portal:
Caregiver Stories ~ direct from the source... your fellow caregivers.
Caregiver's Toolbox ~ tricks & tips, plus analysis and issue dissection
For Friends & Family ~ we're here to encourage the wider social circle too.
Sociable ~ expanding our reach in informational and creative ways:
Facebook ~ a stream of interest items for Caregivers of every stripe
Instagram ~ get your photo on, #FacesOfCare & our signature care cards show our stories.
Interactive:
Caregiver Forums ~ our bulletin board of ideas, issues, feelings, solutions.
Weekly Chats ~ Spousal support, bereavement discussion and more to come.. or just start a chat of your own.
Adrienne on the Radio ~ Our own founder is cohost with Dave Nassany for the weekly radio (call in when live) show and blog
We hope to genuinely encourage your participation on the site, in community with your fellow caregivers.
Our monthly topic for your feedback as part of the Forum discussions. This month, our prompt asks: what would make the perfect caregiver's retreat? The variety of preferences for socializing or solitude, for exotic locations, or the local theatre and arts scene... any of these can be "the right answer" for you, and we want to hear what it is. It's part of the forum called "The Page Listens".
(Prefer to take your time with more thoughtful answers?? Paste the Forum Title & Header into your email composer. After each update and edit, save the email as a draft... get back to it when you have more free time, when your ready to post, paste it back onto the forum's reply section.)
For the Caregiver Space, every post of image or word is a new inroad to communicating with you as a caregiver. Scroll up, scroll down on this email and click away. The links and previews of selected posts fall just after this intro.
In the spirit of caregiving,,
Paul Nocera
Director, Community Engagement
Paul@theCaregiverSpace.org
Grief: loneliness, some things aren’t meant to be
When you’re living alone in what was supposed to be the glory days, full of fun, laughter, and retirement with the one you love, how could everything go so wrong. In a soft voice — I don’t know. .
Posted on 28 April 2016 by Bob Harrison
IRS Could Help Find Many Uninsured People, But Doesn’t
About 10 million people carrying on without health insurance live in families that received a federal earned income tax credit (EITC) in 2014, according to a new study. The Internal Revenue Service doesn’t tell those tax filers that their households might qualify for Medicaid or subsidies to buy coverage on the insurance exchanges. That’s a lost opportunity, the researchers say.
Posted 6 May 2016 by Kaiser Health News
The Agonizing Limbo Of Abandoned Nursing Home Residents
“Federal and state law have created a complicated and expensive process to ensure residents are not abandoned by their nursing homes,” said Tony Chicotel, a staff attorney at the nonprofit California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. “It fundamentally doesn’t work.”
Chicotel said the outcome is “profoundly problematic” — vulnerable residents are abandoned by the nursing homes and then by the state.
Posted on 30 April 2016 by Kaiser Health News
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the Focus for May 2016 is...
WHAT WOULD MAKE THE PERFECT CAREGIVER'S RETREAT?
Some of us prefer socializing, others prefer solitude. Some pine for an exotic getaway from it all, while others yearn for the local theatre and arts scene. Any of these can be “the right answer” for you, and we want to hear what it is. Tell us the kind of perfect vacation or staycation that works for you… How do you plan it, what makes it perfect just for you?
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
Need to talk? Click on...
Visit the forums!
When We Overlook the Caregiver Who Needs Care, Too
Oh, the irony in telling the caregiver to take care of themselves.
After my family’s journey with cancer I can understand why sometimes caregivers die first, and after reading my story I bet you will understand why as well.
Posted 4 May 2016 by Lisa Ingrassia, Contributor to The Mighty