Doreen is an award-winning blogger, teacher and author. She can be found sharing regularly on her website, DoreenMcGettigan.com. This post was originally featured on The Diary of An Alzheimer’s Caregiver with Rena McDaniel. Caregiving for our elderly parents can be one of the most anxiety-inducing, stressful times of our lives. It can be a time of all-consuming sadness …
Rena McDaniel from The Diary of an Alzheimer’s Caregiver interviewed Bob DeMarco from the Alzheimer’s Reading Room and gleaned expert advice for Alzheimer’s Caregivers. When I finally figured out that I desperately needed some caregiver knowledge I searched online and found the ARR. For those of you who haven’t heard of those three wonderful letters, I’m talking …
Every caregiver had a life long before caregiving started. I sometimes forget that other life…Rena… even existed. I’ve talked alot about taking over as mom’s caregiver. What I haven’t talked about are the changes that it has caused in my own life. I was 19 when I had my son and 22 for my daughter. …
