Caregiving

Effective Approaches To Care For Caregivers

For many families, the question of coordinating home care is a challenging and emotionally fraught issue. Being a full or part-time caregiver is extremely stressful and time-consuming. Whether the caregiver lives close by or at a distance from the loved one, their challenges can be distilled into three deceptively simple questions: What level of care

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Healthcare Data Management Tools for Caregivers

Healthcare data management has been a challenge for many years. In this digital age, however, the systems have improved. The process of collecting, storing and analyzing healthcare data is now electronic. This has improved communication, patient treatments and health outcomes, and created a 360-degree view of patients’ health through the integration of data. Healthcare data

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Elderly Health Care: Top 7 Tips for Caregivers

How do you support an aging loved one’s health? Get to know the basics of elderly health care by following these top 7 tips for caregivers. With age comes wisdom, or so the saying goes. But with age also comes certain health challenges. These include arthritis, heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, and so on. As a caregiver, you

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How Caregiving Can Result in Depression

Caregiving can be a rewarding experience. We want to be there for our loved ones when they need us most, and knowing that we have provided the best care we can give puts our minds at ease. But there’s little doubt that it can also be draining and challenging to put it mildly. Often we

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Time To Recharge Your Batteries?

If you look after someone who has a serious or long-term illness, or you simply have an aging loved one who needs your help, it can be easy to forget about yourself. You dedicate so much of your time and energy into helping your loved one, and so you forget about yourself. It is easily

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3 New Developments That Are Easing the Caregiving Burden

There’s no denying that caregiving can be a costly and stressful experience for those who find themselves needing to support a friend or family member. According to AARP, there are over 44 million American adults who work as unpaid caregivers—and over one-third of these individuals view their responsibility as emotionally stressful. Many caregivers find that

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