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Can Eldercare Bring Families Back Together?

By Susan Baida

In these online, digital times, many families are reconnecting in new ways. Here are some thoughts on how this can help the caregiving journey.

General Medical

Focus on Caregiving: Gail Sheehy with the Heath Family (VIDEO)

By Susan Delson

The story of the Heaths illuminates an important phase in caregiving: the "boomerang," when once you’ve figured out how to manage the new reality of caring for a loved one, things change yet again.

General Medical

Special Focus: Caregiving

By Women's Voices For Change

We've partnered with Gail Sheehy and other WVFC contributors for three months of up-to-date information and many stories. It won't be all we do, but check in for a unique summer.

Family & Friends · General Medical

Special work assignments usually offer special experiences. Like the time I cooked and test-marketed new hamburger sandwiches — mushroom Swiss and pizza barbecue — as part of a promotion for a fast-food chain, or when I ran catering triage behind the scenes of a professional golf tournament. These out-of-the-office jobs opened my eyes to real assembly-line production and the unglamorous…

General Medical

Aging Parents and Dealing with Siblings

By Womens Voices for Change

By Janice Arenofsky Getting older isn’t for sissies, but neither is caring for an elderly parent when sibling rivalry reaches critical mass. One example explains all: After a medical crisis, I suggested a change of meds to the charge nurse at the nursing home where my mother resided. She informed me that as “number two” daughter, I had virtually no…

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Can Eldercare Bring Families Back Together?

Focus on Caregiving: Gail Sheehy with the Heath Family (VIDEO)

Special Focus: Caregiving

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Aging Parents and Dealing with Siblings

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