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Caregiver Stress Signs
This article focuses on the signs of caregiver stress and how to recognize these signs.
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Caregivers Around the World
This is a brief article about the new <i>Caregivers Around the World</i> topic area on my main web site, <i>The Elderly Place</i>. You will be able to read articles from other caregivers as well as submit your own for other caregivers to read.
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Grandparents as a Childcare Resource
In today's tough economy finding affordable, good quality day care is a difficult task. Often grandparents can step in to ease the burden.
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Health Care Givers - Please Have A Heart!
Breast cancer survivor's travails with round two of breast cancer and the inhumanity of some health care workers.
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Thanksgiving Activities
Have fun this Thanksgiving with your loved ones. Read on if you would like some tips on how to include your loved ones, especially those with a dementing illness, with helping you this holiday.
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How to be a Good Caregiver
Whether caring for the elderly, a sick child, or an injured spouse, there is much that can be done to ease the burden of an illness and provide a healing atmosphere.
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Day Care and Your New Baby
It's a good idea to begin looking for day care that will suit your family's needs while you are still pregnant. Here are some tips on where and what to look for when selecting child care services.
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70. Dealing With Cancer: Part V
We live, we laugh, We dance, we die, With each passing, We breathe a sigh, And embrace one another by and by.
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Boomers Now Facing the Realities of Elder Care
Living longer means that our elderly population will require care for an extended period of time, a responsibility that is now falling to the baby boomer generation.
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Caregiver Feelings
Explore common feelings that may come along with the caregiving role.
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Caregiving Introduction
This article is especially for new caregivers of all ages. However, all caregivers may benefit from the tips, suggestions, and resources listed.
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Caring for the Terminally Ill
Caring for someone with a terminal sickness can be emotionally and physically draining. It is not wrong to seek out help.
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Developing Language through Music and Movement
Learning speech patterns, using inflections, compound words, complex rhythms, timbre, rhythmic patterns, movement and sound, all of these things are interrelated and play an important part in developing the whole being.
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Eldercare Issues Impact Workplace
Talk to any baby boomer and chances are likely they are currently assisting a parent or elderly relative in some way.
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Learning Through Forgetfulness
Interviews with experts from several areas of elder care, providing insight and advice for caregivers of Alzheimers/Dementia patients
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Long Distance Caregiving
Caregiving doesn't just mean that your loved one lives with you. There are many children who assist their parent(s) that live in another city or state. This article focuses on just that- the long distance caregiver.
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Older Pet Adoption
Yes, this article is for caregivers. Did you know that pets have the most wonderful healing benefits? If you aren't crazy about pets, than this article may not be for you, but I still hope you will read on. Maybe you know someone that may benefit. :)
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The Healthy Caregiver
Being healthy is the key element in providing quality care to loved ones. This articles focuses on the basics of health and how you can remain in a healthy state of mind.
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Wilm's Tumor
Coping with Cancer: Helping patients and their families on their journeys through cancer. I will discuss different cancers, feelingsd, treatments, and my experience as a cancer survivor
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Should You Use A Midwife?
The use of midwives in the delivery room is on the rise. New mothers now have more options available to them and using a midwife can be the key to avoiding unnecessary medical intervention.
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The Facts Surrounding Stay-at-Home Dads
There are a number of contrasting statistics that reflect the amount of men taking up the role of 'home maker' in today's society.
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A Caregiver's Story
The MS caregiver role is an invaluable and critical one--usually filled by a family member or friend.
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Care Giving - A Stressful but Well-paying Job
Caring for the old continues to be a decent noble job in these troubled times, the compensation of which remains unequalled to its life-giving value, at least monetarily.
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What Does it Take to be a Stay-at-Home Dad
According to Wales Online,there are roughly around 200,000 men who opt to stay home and be the primary care giver to their children.
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Black Senior Citizens and Flu Shots
The eighth leading cause of death in America is influenza and pneumonia. More than 36,000 people succumb to these viral infections, every year.
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Caring for Your Diabetic Canine Pet
There is nothing more devastating than receiving news that your canine pet has been diagnosed with diabetes. Diabetic care information is important for good health.
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The Low Down on Back Pain
Low back pain can be caused by trauma, poor lifting and over-use/under-use of the muscles.
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The Skeleton Key
A review of the film "The Skeleton Key".
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YES I Bonsai NOT
Some of my thoughts about bonsai and why you might enjoy growing a potato in bonsai form too. Photos of my very own bonsai potatoes.
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A Day In The Life Of A Nurse
An introduction to the nursing profession. Part I in a series of aritlces on nursing and nursing care.
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A Day In The Life of A Nurse - Part III: Long-Term Care
What's nursing home nursing like? How is it funded? Who's caring for your parents?
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Concerns for Day Care and Preschool Children
Concerns regarding the quality of caregivers we hand our children over to each day and the amount of responsibility we entrust to these individuals and how this affects our children.
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Daycare At Your Workplace
Factors to consider when enrolling your child in a workplace daycare or when proposing to start a facility.
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How a Mother Saved her Daughter with Anorexia
A mother saved her daughter with anorexia by forming TeamBraeden, an eating disorder recovery organization.
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Look Inside
The Why's of looking carefully inside your child's mouth.
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The Scales of Justice
Break free from the bathroom scale, and value who you already are, inside and out. This is the key to living healthy, and eating for life.
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Bathroom Ergonomics for Elderly or Disabled
There are some simple options to create an easy access bathroom, but the key is in the planning and preparation.
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Behavioral Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease
The "why" of Alzheimer's disease is yet to be discovered, but the behavioral challenges of taking care of someone with the disease have been identified by physicians.
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Canadian Women at War
Canadian women have been in the forefront of Canadian military service since 1885. And continue to serve proudly and with distinction.
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Control Blood Pressure with Diet and Exercise
Any plan to control high blood pressure should include eating a healthy diet and exercise. Follow a few rules for eating and physical activity to improve hypertension.
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Creative Story Book Reading
Have you ever considered that If you read a book to your child in less than 3 minutes you wasted your time. What? You mean I can't race through it and get the story over with! Ideas on using reading as a way to build family values.
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Developmental Milestones Three to Six Months
Babies learn new things every day and develop many new skills during the three to six month period of life.
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Doulas In The Delivery Room
Doulas are increasing in popularity, should you hire one?
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Identifying Hearing Loss in Children
Hearing loss puts a child's normal speech and language development in jeopardy. It is imperative that any hearing impairment be identified by the toddler years.
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Induced Labor: Is It More Painful?
Induced labor is a procedure that is becoming more common place in today's hospitals. In this article I describe why an induced labor may be more painful than a normal labor, as well as the steps that are taken to induce labor.
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Man of the House by Ad Hudler
Linc Menner has held the family's household together from the start. But when they move from New York to Florida, he suddenly has a change of heart and recreates himself.
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Newspaper Tells A Families Personal Story of HD
Absolutely heart stirring story of Marc as told to and by their local newspaper. I am in the process of getting the name for you. .....This story chronicles Marc's journey with HD.
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Noroviruses
Noroviruses are a group of single-stranded RNA, non-enveloped viruses that cause gastroenteritis in human.
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Polar Bear Cub, Knut
Were the animal rights activists wrong to say that hand-rearing by humans was not the best choice for this polar bear cub?
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Pregnant Women More at Risk for Swine Flu
Pregnant women, as well as young children and people with other health problems, are most at risk for contracting more serious forms of the swine flu.
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