🌾 🐝 ⛅ Caregiver's Promise ⛅ 🐝 🌾
Greetings ,
Caregiver's Promise... it's the double meaning of the commitment we make, and the positive benefit that comes from our daily work. This is the statement of what we value at our core, with all the obstacles and challenges thrown our way. It's the fortitude to work through the anxiety of a big election year... to confront our very personal and human shortcomings... to deal with all the details of caring, which has no map for success, but required meticulous planning.
Let The Caregiver Space help you .. Our promise is like your own. Only we use electronic resources to make the difference, to parse the numbers, to deliver inspiration and information at your fingertips.. however it is you want to take it. Our site and our media streams are in place 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: Scroll down to see the best of this past week.
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
Five Health Issues Presidential Candidates Aren’t Talking About — But Should Be
In the next few years the United States faces many important decisions about health care — most of which have little to do with the controversial federal health law, the Affordable Care Act — aka, Obamacare. Here are five issues candidates should be discussing, but largely are not.
Posted 16 May 2016 by Kaiser Health News
Sometimes I lose my cool. I yell. Or I just get that tone in my voice that shows how annoyed I am. And then I feel so guilty.
It helps to hear how other caregivers feel this way, too. That maybe it’s not great, not okay, but understandable for me to not be as good as I want to be all the time.
Posted 14 May 2016 by Michelle Daly
Less than Half of Family Caregivers Have a Care Plan in Place for their Loved Ones
With approximately 34.2 million Americans providing unpaid care for aging loved ones1, it is crucial to spread awareness of valuable tools and techniques that family caregivers can implement themselves.
Posted on 17 May 2016
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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!
Why North Carolina's HB2 Hurts People With Disabilities, Too
Even if you can’t relate to the struggle facing the LGBT community, can you relate to the sheer embarrassment of going into a restroom that makes your life harder instead of easier? There are restrooms I cannot use because they aren’t made to accommodate me. Why shouldn’t we all want the right to be accommodated?
Posted 26 April 2016 by Erin Noon