Four Inspiring Movies for Caregivers
Filmakers explore the complicated relationships between caregivers and the loved ones in their care Movies have a way of opening the mind, derailing monotony and furnishing new perspectives. In fact, “beyond being a source of entertainment, films have the power to foster social bonds and create shared experiences among individuals,” asserts self-improvement site, The Emotion
Caregiver Tips for Traveling with Elderly Parents
Picture taking your elderly parent to a country they’ve wanted to visit since they were young. That trip would be highly fulfilling and memorable for both you, their caretaker, and your elderly parent. But, before you book that trip and start packing, there are some things you should consider to ensure the trip goes smoothly.
Vehicle Safety Tips for Caregivers
The transition from an independent driver to needing to rely on others can be difficult for older people in our care. When transporting someone under your stewardship as a caregiver, you must maintain safety as your top priority. With the added demands on your attention that could potentially distract you while driving it’s essential to figure
Caring for Someone with Traumatic Brain Injury: 10 Tips for Caregivers
According to the CDC, an estimated 2.5 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) annually. Older adults are particularly susceptible, so every caregiver should familiarize themselves with ways to prevent TBI. If your loved one or client is recovering from such an injury, they will require unique care. In this article, we cover ten
Caregiver Tips on Planning a Funeral
It’s time for a serious talk. Take a deep breath before moving on because this subject can be triggering. While it’s an uncomfortable topic, we must discuss the reality that the person we offer sacrificial and gentle care to will one day pass on. In preparing you, beloved caregiver, for this reality, we have compiled
7 Caregiver Tips to Boost Your Immune System
The manual work of caregiving can take a serious toll on the body. Because the labor of caregiving is also mentally and emotionally taxing, the physical effects can become compounded. In this weakened state, caregivers are extremely susceptible to infectious disease. To combat this risk, it helps to make boosting your immune system a priority.
Accessing Free Home-Delivered Meals for Seniors
A Helping Hand for You and Your Loved One As a home caregiver, you understand the challenges your loved one faces in staying healthy and independent. Preparing nutritious meals might be one of those hurdles, especially with limited mobility, health concerns, or simply the demands of daily life. That’s where free home-delivered meals for seniors
Caregiver Debt 101:
Don’t let caring for a loved one become a financial burden. Follow these tips for avoiding debt and maintaining financial security as a caregiver from the adult foster care experts at Mass Care Link.
Recognizing and Preventing Caregiver Burnout: A Guide for At-Home Caregivers
Caring for someone at home? Learn the signs of burnout and how to get help.
Widening the Circle: Helping Loved Ones with Special Needs Make Friends
Friendship is a powerful foe against isolation and depression for people with special needs. As a caregiver, learn three strategies for helping your loved one with special needs develop socially through friendships from adult foster care provider Mass Care Link.
Legal Guardianship: A Primer for Home Caregivers
The term legal guardian comes up a lot in home health care. Find out what legal guardianship is and how understanding it can help you be a better caregiver.
Keeping the Fun in Summertime
Summer sometimes stirs memories of school vacation, beach trips and lazy evenings on the porch. But the reality of summer for caregivers can involve long, lonely days inside. While some activities we associate with summer, involving vigorous movement or extended time in the sun, may longer be accessible for you as a caregiver, there are
Five Things No one Told Us About Being A Caregiver
Caring for your loved ones is a beautiful and humbling experience. It can also be an extremely challenging reality. Sometimes the duties and tasks of caregiving have unforeseen consequences and create ripple effects into other aspects of your life. While these realities are sometimes minimized or overlooked, we want to take the time here to
Four Caregiver Tips to Cut Costs and Save
In 2023, the median cost for nursing home care was $13,535 a month. As the cost of out-of-home care continues to rise more have opted to take on the admirable responsibility of caring for their loved ones themselves. But at-home care also has associated costs. Getting paid to care for your loved one at home
Achieving Balance: 4 New Year Resolutions for Caregivers
As a caregiver, you take on the significant responsibility of looking after the well-being of your loved one. It’s a challenging task that requires a lot of dedication, patience, and compassion. With the start of a new year, it’s a perfect time to reflect on your role as a caregiver and set new goals for
Five Keys to Caregiving
Being a caregiver can be one of the most rewarding experiences a person can have. It can give you a sense of closeness to someone you love and can also be incredibly therapeutic. However, it can also be physically and emotionally draining, especially if you are caring for someone long-term or around the clock. We’ve
Five Approaches to Caregiver Happiness
With the many tedious daily tasks involved with caring for patients in their homes, caregivers deserve both reverence and respite. The level of hard work demanded by this rewarding profession consumes immeasurable time, energy, and patience in addition to mental, physical, and emotional strength. From the constant administering of medication, playing the role of a
Coping With Caregiver Grief During The Holidays
Celebrated as the most wonderful time of the year, the holidays are expected to usher in joy and happiness. But for caregivers, the holidays can often bring a complicated mix of emotions, including grief. During the holidays, grief can arise from memories of loss or seeing others celebrating with loved ones. To assist caregivers in
The Ingredients of Healthy Aging
Let’s face the facts! Aging is inevitable. But while aging is a natural part of human existence, how you choose to live your days can impact how you age. Consider becoming intentional about how you age. Healthy aging is essential to leading your life with the purpose of experiencing the best quality of life today
Caregivers Can Get Help Buying Their Dream Home
Caring for your charge is hard work, but it doesn’t have to be expensive. Caregivers face financial challenges including elderly scams, fraud and financial abuse, plus the rising cost of housing. The Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency (MHFA) is now offering caregivers the ability to buy a home in their local area. This new program will
10 Ways to Stay Motivated As a Caregiver
A caregiver’s job can easily lead to burnout. Try these ten tips to stay motivated and keep pushing ahead.
Caregiver Depression: 9 Tips to Handle This Common Condition
Many caretakers face depression and compound its effects by hiding it in shame. But this shame is misplaced. According to caregiver.org, 40% to 70% of family caregivers have clinically significant symptoms of depression. Like most who experience depression, caregivers suffer in silence because they are afraid of facing stigma and don’t want it to take
How to Cope with Grief as a Caregiver
As a caregiver, you share a lot of time with the person you’re caring for, possibly even their last moments. It can be hard to watch their health deteriorate, and excruciating when they pass on. While grieving is a very personal experience with no right or wrong way to go about it, we have compiled
Caregiver Tips For Preparing Healthy Meals At Home
Being a caregiver often involves preparing and serving meals to keep the person you are caring for healthy and happy. How can you ensure you are preparing food that meets their nutritional needs? If you want to plan and prepare suitable healthy meals, then here are a few tips for effective meal planning as a
7 Mental Health Tips For Caregivers
Being a caregiver is a full-time job. Dedicating most of your time and effort to someone else’s well-being takes a lot and eventually takes a toll. So when the cup has run empty, who takes care of the caregiver? Keep reading to learn seven mental health tips for caregivers. 1. Be Kind To Yourself Caregiving
How To Assist Patients With A Fall And Prevent Them From Falling
At-home caregivers have a barrage of things to monitor with their patients. It is their job to provide assistance with daily living and make sure patients are safe. Everyday activities present the potential risk of falls; therefore, it is essential to monitor patients so you can be there to support them if they are falling.
5 Spring Tips for Caregivers
Make some positive changes this spring to help foster mental clarity and give fresh perspectives to the caregiver and the person receiving care.
The Joys of Being a Home Caregiver
Taking care of a loved one can bring its own rewards To say caregiving is an act of selflessness would be a gross understatement. Taking up such a responsibility out of love doesn’t make it any less grueling. Being a home caregiver can often feel like you’re being pulled in a million directions at once,
How To Maintain A Healthy Lifestyle As An At Home Caregiver
At-home caregivers tend to a person’s daily needs. Their tasks usually include cooking meals, monitoring, grooming, light housekeeping, and dispensing medication. Depending on the necessary level of care, caregiving can be a physically demanding job. In any case, taking care of a person requires lots of time, energy, and attention. Caregivers trying to give their
How To Become A Paid Caregiver In Massachusetts
If you are caring for a loved one, you may be eligible to receive a monthly payment in the state of Massachusetts. Learn your options.
How To Maintain Good Mental Health While Taking Care Of Someone At Home
As a caregiver for a spouse, friend or relative, it may not be easy to make time to care for yourself. However, everyone needs self-care, especially someone who is caring for others. Just as it is impossible to pour from an empty cup, taking care of others requires the caregiver’s cup of wellness to be
Stress Relief for Home Caregivers
In the U.S. alone, around 70 million Americans offer care to a family member or other person. Caring for someone can be very rewarding. However, at times it may be quite stressful. It is never a good idea to compromise your own health in the process, as that would mean you would not be able
How to take care of family member at home?
When it comes to looking after a member of the family, many important factors must be taken in consideration. Here are some tips to follow, to take care of a family member – whether ailing, disabled or elderly, at home. Get your loved one assessed in a timely mannerWith timely assessment and medical diagnosis, it
How to Prevent / Reduce Caregiver Stress?
It can be quite satisfying to look after an elderly family member at home, but the constant handling of responsibilities, worries and anxieties can often burn out a caregiver, especially with his / her own personal and professional commitments always to be maintained. Here are some tips that will help you to prevent or reduce
Fun Activities for the Elderly
Fun Activities for the Elderly When one is retired, there is plenty of free time. This is a good time for the elderly to relax as well as try out some new things. As it is said, one is never too old to try out new things. Senior citizens can try out many activities that
What makes a caregiver indispensable?
People these days are used to living a busy lifestyle due to the financial commitments. While they try to put food on the table, they often find it difficult to care for the elders who are at home. Elders who are beyond a certain age or the ones who are physically not able to take
Choosing the right caregiver to take care of the disabled
There are a few things that you ought to consider before choosing a caregiver or a company that provides these types of services. You would be surprised to see the number of institutions that are out there that provide caregivers to people who are in need. However, not all of them are able to provide the type
Roles and responsibilities of a caregiver for your parents
It is a really difficult task to ascertain the roles and responsibilities of a caregiver. They play a prominent role when assigned the task of taking care of an elderly or disabled individual. As a matter of fact, there are many things that may not be defined in the roles and responsibilities that they should undertake.
Who would need the services of a caregiver?
Who would need the services of a caregiver? People who cannot take care of themselves often require the services of caregivers. A lot of people are not able to take care of themselves effectively. This can be due to a medical condition they suffer from, disabilities, and age. These people are often taken care of
What qualities make for the best caregiver?
There are many people around in Massachusetts who need the services of a caregiver at home. Commonly, individuals who are elderly, disabled, or are not able to take care of themselves require these types of services due to their medical conditions. There are certain qualities that caregivers should possess to provide the best care possible. We look
Autism and Caregivers
There are many health complications that may prevent a person from doing everyday activities. This is often the case for those with autism. Many times, they are faced with social challenges as well as physical impediments. Many caregivers often wonder, what is the best way to support loved ones with autism? This article will share
How Caregivers Can Protect Themselves and Care Recipients in Massachusetts
COVID-19, more commonly referred to as the Coronavirus is making its way across the globe. The outbreak began in China and has swiftly moved to cities and states far and wide. As of March 2020, 2 cases have been confirmed here in the Bay State. The coronavirus scare is prompting healthcare providers and state officials
MassHealth Adult Foster Care: Understanding The Difference Between a Caregiver and a Care Recipient
A caregiver is a person who provides care to the care recipient at their home. Most of the stats show that almost 60% of caregivers who reside with their recipients are either a friend or a family member. In the state of Massachusetts, if someone wants to get enrolled as a caregiver, he/she must meet
How to Start Out as a New Caregiver
If you want to start your profession as a caregiver then it is the right time because a lot of individuals are looking for someone who can help at home. There are many individuals who suffer from many serious illness like Alzheimer’s, chronic disease, dementia or perhaps have a physical or developmental disabilities. These individuals
What caregivers do for you?
In today’s world, a lot of health problems are occurring due to several reasons, and the cost of treatment for such issues is increasing day by day, and this is why the cost of living in a hospital is rising dramatically. This provides an excellent opportunity for the caregivers because caregivers offer the chance to
Who is a Caregiver?
Generally, most of us have been a caregiver at some point of our lives because most of us have taken care of our elders who have or had illness. The of act caring for a loved one deems you as a caregiver. Intrinsically, a caregiver could be a son, nephew, son-in-law, grandson or someone else
A to Z of Caregiving
In our daily lives, we spend a lot of time with our family members. We take care of our those elders who suffer from disabilities or have severe illness however, this look after does not fall in the category of caregiving because we do this work with our will and we enjoy doing it, but