"Tips for health and sanity that every caregiver needs"
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/tips-for-health-every-caregiver-needs/#.VWzAtTKwzrE.twitterCaregiving can be an emotional roller coaster. On the one hand, caring for a family member demonstrates love, commitment and can be a very rewarding experience. On the other hand, exhaustion, worry, inadequate resources (money, time, support services in the community), dysfunctional families and seemingly never-ending care demands can leave you feeling overwhelmed and without hope for a reasonably healthy caregiving experience.
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Seeing the ‘Invisible Patient’
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/seeing-the-invisible-patient/?smid=tw-share&_r=0The subject was caregiver burden and how physicians ought to be attending to the “invisible patient,” the one supporting an elderly family member with dementia or a heart condition or diabetes — or all of the above. Given that there are currently 43.5 million people providing this kind of support to adults ages 50 and older, and that without them the long-term care system would collapse, you’d think the proposition that somebody ought to be paying attention to them would be a no-brainer.