By Johns Hopkins Medicine staff
Caregivers should take advantage of resources and supportive services to safeguard their own health. Remember that a caregiver can’t provide proper care if their own health is compromised.
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With each diagnosis, knowing her life hung in the balance, she was “stunned, then anguished” and astonished by “how much energy it takes to get from the bad news to actually starting on the return path to health.”
It’s the rare person who doesn’t need help coping with the stress, fatigue, and frustrations that chronic fatigue syndrome can bring. As a caregiver, you’ll need to learn all you can about chronic fatigue support.
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The bodies of lonely people are markedly different from the bodies of non-lonely people.
As the number of people with severe disabilities, debilitating chronic diseases and terminal illnesses grows, concern about their care has focused primarily on long-term care facilities, nursing homes, home health aides and hospices.
Whether you choose to be a family caregiver or the job is thrust upon you by circumstances, your most important responsibility beyond caring for your ill or disabled relative is caring for yourself.
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” ~ Bruce Lee The premise of his philosophy was efficiency—complete and utter efficiency of the soul.
When I retired from clinical practice several years ago, I let go into the unknown. I felt tentative, uncertain, yet knowing intuitively that I needed to heed the call.
After my husband died, a silly catchphrase became a lifeline for me. Instead of wishing for a reality I couldn’t have, I embraced the circumstances I was dealt.
When Peter Keating took off from the starting line at the Boston Marathon, it was the realization of a dream come true, but he never imagined just how unique his 26.2-mile trek would be.
The essential role that daughters play in the American health care system is well known but has received little attention.