Moving an older parent in with you has many obvious benefits. You’re on hand to provide all the help she needs and provide company – both crucial benefits as she ages. The idea may seem like a win for you too, as you don’t need to travel as far to provide care. Perhaps she can […]
How To Feed Seniors – Tips For Busy Caregivers
Food is crucial, yet it can be surprisingly overwhelming. Planning meals, shopping for ingredients, cooking, and cleaning up all require energy – sometimes more than you have. Then we have the other part of the questions, actually getting the senior to eat. Doing so isn’t always easy. Some seniors don’t enjoy food much anymore or […]
Pureed Food for Seniors – Delicious Recipes, Tips, And More
Eating can become more complicated as people age. Not only do appetite and ability to taste often decrease, but seniors may also suffer from dysphagia, where swallowing becomes difficult. Other seniors may experience issues with chewing instead, especially if they have few or no remaining teeth. Soft food is sometimes the answer, especially if it […]
Best Kitchen Tools and Cookbooks for Caregivers
Who hasn’t heard about the benefits of healthy eating? The idea is repeated over and over again in books, blog posts, and on social media. But there’s a bigger question – how do you eat well? I don’t mean this from the nutritional perspective, like which foods are healthy. Most of us have a pretty […]
The Unexpected Nature of Grief for Caregivers
At its most simple, grief is the way we respond to loss. It often includes intense emotions, particularly sadness and emptiness. Such emotions can be incredibly overwhelming and take time to process. Most conversations about grief focus on what happens after the death of a loved one and rightfully so, as the sense of loss […]
10 Potent Ways to Combat Caregiver Guilt
Caregiving is full of huge emotions. This includes some you might expect, like sadness and others that catch you off guard, like anger. Caregiver guilt is one of these emotions and is incredibly common. Caregivers feel guilty about so many things, including what they do and what they don’t do, their emotions, their reactions, the […]