When you’re caring for a loved one, you’re devoting nearly all of your time to making sure they’re healthy, happy, and loved. You’re taking your loved one to appointments, doing their cooking and cleaning, and providing companionship day in and day out. This immense responsibility is often done with minimal assistance. Caregiving is a selfless… Continue reading Is Caring for a Loved One Causing Burnout?
Tag: Mental Health
Navigating the Guilt of Moving a Loved One to Assisted Living
Ensuring the health, safety, and overall well-being of an older loved one – especially a parent – can have its emotional challenges, especially if that means moving them to an assisted living community. It’s perfectly normal to feel sad, angry, and guilty. The love we have for our parents is powerful. They nurtured and took… Continue reading Navigating the Guilt of Moving a Loved One to Assisted Living
Coping with Cabin Fever for Seniors
As the weather starts to get warmer and we start to see blue sunny skies, we start to realize (if we haven’t already) how tired of the cold weather we are and how we may have become a little stir crazy! People in northern areas tend to become less tolerant of winter conditions as they… Continue reading Coping with Cabin Fever for Seniors