📳 🚀 📚 Your Caregiving Boost 📚 🚀 📳
Roz Chast’s Graphic Memoir
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Grappling creatively with layered feelings about her relationships, guilt over her impatience, transfer of the “dirty work” to aides, and frustration at her inability to convince her parents to take action.
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Posted 31 August 2016 by Isabella
Hidden Plan Exclusions May Leave Gaps In Women’s Care, Study Finds
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Buried in the fine print of many marketplace health plan documents is language that allows them to refuse to cover a range of services, many of which disproportionately affect women, a recent study found.
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Posted 30 August 2016 by Kaiser Health News
Balancing Act: Your Health and Your Loved One’s Health
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While caregivers tend to the needs of another, they may develop their own health problems.
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Posted 29 August 2016 by Harriet Hodgson
Informal support: it means we don’t get paid
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Unpaid caregiving isn’t free…caregivers pay the price
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Posted 31 August 2016 by Carol Wright, Guest Author
The real reason we don’t pay family caregivers
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Why are family caregivers asked to give up months, years, or decades of their lives to care for someone else without any pay?
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Posted 30 August 2016 by Cori Carl
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Our focus for August 2016 is...
What's new in your caregiving toolbox?
Step back two steps for perspective; remember the myriad things you've had to learn to be your best caregiver. Is it how to lift without throwing out your back? You've a new time management trick? Even a cooking tip helps keep us feeling alive.
Make a short list or long.. .
What have you learned from your caregiving work?
For August 2016.. tell us in your own words, from your own work, what you have learned, or the ways you have grown in your caregiving. Your reply could be just what another caregiver needs to keep up their strength for the long haul.