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• A Fresh New Year is Approaching: Smudge It Early and You’ll Save Some Stress

  
  Minding Our Elders® — Authority: 421
  With a shiny new 2010 approaching, my guess is that many of you have resolved to be better caregivers. You will get more education about your loved ones ailments. Good for you. You will be more patient. Great! Do try. You will attempt to not take your loved ones moods so personally, which will help everyone stay a ...
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• Feminism and Gender in the Aughts

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 142
  The last ten years have been nothing if not a roller coaster ride when it comes to feminism and gender. I found the lows to be more plentiful than the highs, but the surprises kept coming. So, in no particular order, heres what stuck out to me: The Bush years may have been one of the worst times for those of us ...
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• An End of Year Heath & Wellness Blog Roundup.

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 142
  I thought I would do an end of year blog roundup of health & wellness blogs from the BlogHer Blog Lists . Dont forget...If you have a blog, you can add your blog to the BlogHer Blog List so others can find you.  Its also a great place to check out if you are looking for other women bloggers to link to in one ...
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• The Holiday Spirit, or, Making Friends with Lithium

  
  Dementia Nights — Authority: 106
  He had a brief episode of emotional stability. It didnt last. It wasnt going to. The brain damage is too profound, and the emotions just arent going to smooth out. The sequence was this: by the end of my last...
  3 days ago

• For U.S. Caregivers, Many Changes

  
  Women's Voices For Change — Authority: 533
  The National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP have just released a new report about caregivers in the United States, an update of the last one issued in 2004. In [...]
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• Enjoy Group Sing Along Songs For Seniors

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 128
  By DJ HughesIf you are a caregiver of seniors in a nursing home, assisted living facility or even a caregiver for a senior at home, you know that music is special in their lives. Seniors enjoy a good tune and can appreciate an uplifting beat to help get them out of the doldrums and put a smile on their face if for ...
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• Cowls, Tube Scarves, Neck Warmers, Neck Gators, Oh My!

  
  SandwichINK.com — Authority: 429
  Moving to a new state with an aging parent brings with it all sorts of new, interesting, and sometimes difficult changes. One my senior mom and I have discovered is colder weather than weve ever experienced before. Now, all of you who live where it is often cold are probably wonderfully acclimated and would think our ...
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• 7 Ways To Love Your Elderly Friend

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 128
  By Beverly S.To love your elderly friend entails understanding some of their needs or demands. It also entails tender loving care and human warmth and compassion. 1) Visit regularly- Some elderly people tend to lose touch of their “older” friends. Either most are deceased or have some type of illness or health ...
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• Merry Christmas

  
  A Caregiver's Journal — Authority: 99
  Merry Christmas from Gladys and her Caregivers Valerie, Anita, Fred, Clarissa, Nichole and Gladys
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• Christmas Greetings From SandwichINK

  
  SandwichINK.com — Authority: 429
    Merry Christmas to the Sandwich Generation! I wanted to share one last Smilebox card with you this year, along with a delightful Christmas CelebrationMedley from the album  Christmas Celebration, performed by the U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers Chorus . I would also like to take this moment to say ...
  5 days ago

• Its Christmas Whether Were Snowed in or Not

  
  Minding Our Elders® — Authority: 421
  This brings to mind other Christmas times that were “imperfect.” We, as a family, had several elders die near Christmas. So those years, we planned funerals and Christmas all at once. Other years brought other problems. Life doesn’t stop happening because it was Christmas.
  5 days ago

• Christmas Eve Praise and Worship and Joy!

  
  SandwichINK.com — Authority: 429
  Merry Christmas Eve! I hope you are having a delightful week. We had such splendid plans for this week. Yesterday we were to have gone to a pre-Christmas Eve service at my old church. Ive been blessed to attend this service in years past and it is always a glorious celebration of Gods love, power, and the excitement ...
  6 days ago

• Last – Minute Christmas Shopping

  
  Elder Care ABC — Authority: 128
  By Jane Wangersky Right, right – you shouldn’t be shopping on Christmas Eve in the first place, but . . . stuff happens. So you may find yourself on your way home from work on the 24th with one or two or all of the presents on your list still unbought, and the thought of the crowded mall looming in your mind ...
  6 days ago

• Challenges and Solutions to Long Distance Caregiving

  
  rotatelogs.com — Authority: 167
  Long distance caregiving poses some unique challenges, as it is difficult to physically check-in on your loved one in their own home. Instead, you must rely on periodic visits and the reports of others. However, there are solutions to most concerns. Concern: Your loved one cannot leave home to go grocery shopping or ...
  6 days ago

• My Friend has Parkinsons

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 142
  My friend has Parkinson’s. I’ve known him since 1986 when he was working with a large multi-national company and traveling all over the world. He played regular tennis, loved to go for long walks and had a full social life. In ’90 he became the representative of an American company selling banking ...
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• A Woman with Alzheimer’s Teaches Visitor about Expectations

  
  Minding Our Elders® — Authority: 421
  She was neatly dressed, as I’d expected. However when I walked up to her and took her hand, apologizing for it being cold from my snowy drive, she looked me in the eye. She clearly and bluntly agreed with me when I said my hand was cold, but her comment contained obvious wit.
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• Teach and Encourage Each Generation

  
  SandwichINK.com — Authority: 429
  Words of Encouragement for each generation: They should teach them to their children, That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born, That they may arise and tell them to their children, That they should put their confidence in God And not forget the works of God, But keep ...
  1 week ago

• Wiggling My Toes -- Change on the Horizon

  
  Alzheimer's Reading Room — Authority: 482
  The core focus of the Alzheimers Reading Room is advice and insight into Alzheimers disease.... By Bob DeMarco When I wake up in the morning the first thing I do is wiggle my toes for a minute. It might sound strange but those are the points on my body that are farthest from my brain? Is farthest a word? It ...
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• I Went On A Date

  
  A Caregiver's Journal — Authority: 99
  Last Saturday, Fred and I went on a date.  We didn’t stop by Wendy’s, the Chinese restaurant or Roy’s Cheese Steak.  We actually made a reservation, got dressed up and went out to dinner.  We had a very nice evening out at McCormick and Schmicks.  Nice ambience, good service, good food.  It was the first ...
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• Multigenerational Families Coming Together: How to Really Be With Your Family

  
  Mothering Mother and More — Authority: 106
  Holidays, birthdays, other celebrations when you’re having your grandparents, in-laws, teens, college kids, dates, toddlers, spouses and sometimes ex-spouses all under one roof–it can make you feel like you”re a lion tamer and you never know when one’s going to take a swipe at you.  You may be the primary ...
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