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The Caregiver’s Journey

Chicago Caregiving

Take your turn in our first-ever caregiving game, and learn everything you need for each step of the way Your child has a disabling accident. Employers — yours or your loved one’s — may offer caregiver support, such as access to social workers. Experts urge self-care; it helps you be a better caregiver.

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Laugh it Off

Chicago Caregiving

Laughter can bolster caregiving relationships, too. Studies show that humor and laughter help create safe social spaces between caregivers and people with cognitive impairment. But even a quick giggle can benefit caregivers and those grappling with illness or disease. Originally published in the Winter/Spring 2023 print issue.

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Alzheimer's Dementia Reflections (Video 4:44)

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

As 2023 approaches, let's reflect on Alzheimer's dementia in terms of where we are and where we may be going in the future. According to the "Journal of the American Geriatrics Society," b y the year 2025, an estimated 7.2 How caregivers approach and handle their roles during their interactions is very important.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. It requires a fight. It’s been going on for many decades now.

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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

Hospice News

Additionally, I draw on my own personal experience as a caregiver to my older adult father, which started when I was twelve. He was in his early 60s when I was born, and he suffered a stroke in 1989, which threw our family into the post-acute medical care space and encouraged me to take on a caregiving role. How can we promote this?”

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Too Old for Tech? Never.

Chicago Caregiving

Prior to this technology, the senior would rely on a caregiver or family member to provide the requested assistance.”. Prior to this technology, the senior would rely on a caregiver or family member to provide the requested assistance,” Knight says. Originally published in the Winter/Spring 2023 print issue.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Dr. Selena Gilles

Minority Nurse

She’s also an Affiliate Faculty member of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN), where she serves as Co-Director of the HIGN Scholars Program, an Affiliate Associate Professor at Howard University College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, and a Volunteer Associate Professor for the State University of Haiti.

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