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Please Help Out Those with a Disability or a Chronic Illness. You’ll Also Help Yourself.

I’ve been disabled and intensely ill with the degenerative neuro-immuno illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (formerly known by the misnomer “chronic fatigue syndrome”) for 30 years.

Litsa Dremousis

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Vetville

More than two million American veterans have served in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Many came home wounded, most came back changed, thousands have committed suicide. Who is trying to help them? At a small farm in Tennessee, Marines are taking care of one another.

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Tis the Season to Ask for Help

It is actually noble to ask for help and to offer it.

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Am I Responsible for My Aging Parents?

Difficult as it is to consider, our parents may one day need our help—just as we once needed theirs.

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How to Be a Friend to Someone with Cancer

Research has shown that people with cancer need support from friends. You can make a big difference in the life of someone with cancer.

American Cancer Society

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5 Simple Ways to Support Disability Activism

Disability activism is empowering. Keys to getting started are staying open, sharing the stage, working collaboratively, listening and learning, and being willing to ask for help to make it less scary.

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Please Don’t Be My Knight in Shining Armor

There’s something empowering and dignifying about the act of asking for help when it is genuinely needed.

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The Sandwich Generation: When Caregiver Seems to Be Your Only Role

Both working and non-working caregivers are likely to experience stress associated with “sandwich” caregiving.

Family Caregiver Alliance Staff

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Self-Care for Foster Parents

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

Creating a Family Staff

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40 Resources for Adult Children Caring for Aging Parents

More adults these days find themselves becoming a caregiver for a family member, especially as the older demographic continues to grow. According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, 85% of caregivers look after a relative or other loved one, and 42% of them care for a parent.

Senior Lifestyle staff

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