Dec 11, 2022 | Common Challenges, Feeling Guilty, Feeling Overwhelmed, Navigating Change and Letting Go, Uncategorized
Let’s face it. Caregivers don’t get to participate much in the holidays. While everyone else is planning trips and parties, shopping for gifts or decorating the house, caregivers are still muscling through their daily grind. If you’re taking care of a parent or loved...
Nov 6, 2022 | Common Challenges, Feeling Overwhelmed, Uncategorized
Other than death of a loved one, few things are more disorienting than making the shift from being cared for by your parents to caring for them. This transition is made even more challenging because it usually comes as such a surprise. And it’s not just the...
Oct 14, 2022 | Assisted Living, Common Challenges, Feeling Guilty, Feeling Overwhelmed, Medicaid, Medicare, Navigating Change and Letting Go, Paying for Care, Resources, Uncategorized
In a recent survey, AARP found that about three-quarters of all caregivers spend, on average, 20 percent of their household income on caregiving. This is on top of the estimated $470 billion in unpaid care that they provide; and doesn’t include the potential lost...
Oct 2, 2022 | Assisted Living, Common Challenges, Feeling Overwhelmed, Home Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Navigating Change and Letting Go, Paying for Care, Uncategorized
On August 16th we hosted our 6th Daughterhood conversation on Zoom focused on Navigating Home Care for Your Parents. I was joined by Andrea Cohen, founder, and CEO of Houseworks and Christine Lee, founder and CEO of Companion Home Care Solutions, an agency that...
Sep 26, 2022 | Common Challenges, Medicare, Navigating Change and Letting Go, Paying for Care, Uncategorized
“What do you mean Medicare doesn’t cover this?” My friend Sarah was caught off guard when I told her that her parent’s health insurance program doesn’t cover her parents’ care. What I explained is that there’s a lot Medicare doesn’t cover and one of the biggest gaps...
Aug 23, 2022 | Common Challenges, Feeling Guilty, Feeling Overwhelmed, Uncategorized
It’s 5 am on a Saturday morning and I’m lying awake with that cold, sweaty, anxious feeling that comes from deep existential angst masquerading as too many things to do. I know something has to change – that there’s GOT to be another way to look at my life..to live so...
