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Caregivers have questions! At Daughterhood, we’ve heard a lot of them over the years. Each person comes to us with a unique and complex set of problems. These problems almost always generate some version of the question, “Where do I go for help? Where do I even...
4 Things You Can Do to Make Caregiving Less Tedious
I once had a therapist tell me that I had “the most disordered thinking” of anyone he had ever seen. In light of this diagnosis, I probably deserve a gold medal for getting out of bed most mornings. My secret to staying semi-sane is to keep really, really busy and to...
4 Myths that Increase the Burden of Caregiving
In exactly 10 hours from now, at 5:30 am, I’m going to pull out of my driveway and hit the road for vacation. And yet, at this point, I am still working. And I’m still packing. Two days ago, I woke up in a cold sweat about my many pre-vacation obligations, checked my...
The 5 Most Unexpected Challenges of Caregiving
The 5 Most Unexpected Challenges of Caregiving Every single one of us – because we are alive and we are human – runs the risk that at some point in our lives something will happen to us, making it impossible for us to take care of ourselves. This something can be any...
6 Features of Long-Term Care Insurance You’d Never Guess But Need to Know
It feels a little silly to be writing about long-term care insurance because only about 10% of the older adult population has purchased it. But, it comes up a lot in conversations I have with friends and family… either they’re thinking of buying it or they or their...
4 Essential Tips for Finding the Best Home Care for Your Parents
The vast majority of frail older adults live at home -- not in independent or assisted living and not in nursing homes. So, If you’re managing your parents’ care, sooner or later you’ll come up against the question of whether you should get them more help at home and...
The Top 3 Myths Most Women Believe About Paying for Long-Term Care
If you haven’t stopped to think about whether you’ll need to be taken care of when you are very old or how you’d pay for it, believe me, you are not alone. But, if you are a woman, this is a question you cannot afford to avoid. As Dr. Atul Gawande explains in his...
5 Safety-First Strategies for Your Parents’ Hospital Discharge
You’ve navigated your frail parent’s hospital stay and now it’s time to go home. You probably can’t wait to leave but ...what’s coming next is extremely uncertain. Leaving a hospital with a frail older adult in tow is like stepping off a cliff blindfolded. This blog...
3 Start-Up Business Strategies That Work for Daughterhood
I’ve always had a hard time with planning. I find the process of "thinking things through" boring and tedious. Occasionally this impulsiveness gets me in over my head. Like the time I ordered 20 zillion ivy seedlings for the shady part of my backyard without realizing...
4 Must-Know Tips for Your Parent’s Hospital Stay
It always comes as a shock to me that being likeable doesn't solve all my problems. In my mind, being accommodating is the key to being likable. Of course, the problem with this thinking is that occasionally all that pent up accommodation and desire to be likeable...
