Combat Caregiver Stress with These Self-Care Tips

Serving as a family caregiver for a senior loved one is definitely an act of love. Even though it may certainly be rewarding, it can also quickly become stressful, as a consequence of: The physical complications of a chronic medical condition The cognitive challenges of dementia Feeling helpless and struggling to solve the senior’s problems […]

Relax and Enjoy a Stress-Free Holiday with Seniors

When celebrating the holidays, the world’s message to us is that the grander, brighter, flashier, and more expensive the experience, the better. But for family caregivers, particularly those in the sandwich generation who are currently providing care for both senior parents and their own kids and spouse, attempting to meet these expectations can be overwhelming. […]

Caregiver Guilt: Here’s Why You Need to Let It Go – and How to Do Just That

There’s one thing all caregivers can relate to: guilt. It doesn’t matter how much time and effort we devote to caring for a senior loved one, somehow it never seems to be enough, leaving us thinking we should have done more, shown more compassion, been more patient. And if we don’t properly handle senior caregiver […]

Struggling with Caregiving Stress? Try Laughing!

You know what it’s like to have “one of those days” – you’ve overslept and missed an important meeting, the coffee maker picked today to stop operating, you tripped over the cat, dropping your phone and shattering the screen, and to make it even worse, you feel a cold coming on; and it’s not even […]