Most caregiver support group facilitators are routinely looking for resources to share with the caregivers in their groups. It’s very helpful to have a book, a podcast episode, or maybe an article to use as a springboard for meaningful discussion at a caregiver support group. Caregiver support groups tend to cycle through many of these [...] Read More... from How Caregiver Support Group Leaders Can Use Caregiving Models to Facilitate Discussion and Growth The post How Caregiver Support Group Leaders Can Use Caregiving Models to Facilitate Discussion and Growth first appeared on Caregiving Kine ..read more

WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA – Doctor Aaron Blight has accepted a full-time position as an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Shenandoah University (SU), effective August 16, 2024. The new job comes after a distinguished career spanning government, business, and academic sectors. Dr. Blight held a series of health policy leadership positions at the federal Centers for [...] Read More... from Aaron Blight Joins Shenandoah University’s Public Health Faculty The post Aaron Blight Joins Shenandoah University’s Public Health Faculty first appeared on Caregiving Kinetics ..read more

When I owned my home care company, I awarded one caregiver per year the coveted “Caregiver of the Year” award. While I had a hard time selecting just one outstanding caregiver among many, this was also a singular way to honor someone whose caregiving service was distinguished and exemplary.  I have long remembered a discussion [...] Read More... from Blending In: The Art of Home Care and Respite Care Providers The post Blending In: The Art of Home Care and Respite Care Providers first appeared on Caregiving Kinetics ..read more

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could…  ~ from Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken Family caregivers might relate to Robert Frost’s famous metaphor of diverging roads leading to two different places [...] Read More... from Are You on The Road of Family Caregiving? The post Are You on The Road of Family Caregiving? first appeared on Caregiving Kinetics ..read more

Caregiving does not discriminate. No matter what your background or socio-economic status may be, the chances are extremely high that caregiving will touch your life at some point. Rosalynn Carter famously said, “There are only four kinds of people in the world—those that have been caregivers, those that are caregivers, those who will be caregivers, [...] Read More... from 7 Famous Celebrity Caregivers The post 7 Famous Celebrity Caregivers first appeared on Caregiving Kinetics ..read more

I’ve recently worked with human resource (HR) leaders from a range of organizations to strengthen their internal support for employees with family caregiving responsibilities at home. It’s gratifying to see caregiving emerge as an area of focus for many employers, but it is also something that has become a business necessity.  Major demographic and generational [...] Read More... from Supporting at Home Caregiver Employees The post Supporting at Home Caregiver Employees first appeared on Caregiving Kinetics ..read more

“Am I a caregiver?” She looked at me quizzically. She had just recounted all the things she was now doing for her husband. Things she never used to do. Things he depended on her to do. Things she never imagined she’d be doing for him. She had come to a conference to hear me speak [...] Read More... from Am I a Caregiver? The Significance of Self-Identification The post Am I a Caregiver? The Significance of Self-Identification first appeared on Caregiving Kinetics ..read more

In last month’s blog post, I introduced the idea of charting your caregiving experience. You can do this by creating a crude X- and Y- axis graph to plot out your care receiver’s health, and corresponding caregiving intensity, over the passage of time. In this post, I’ll explain how such a graph insightfully reveals when [...] Read More... from How to Know When Caregiving Experience Requires a Change in Your Thinking The post How to Know When Caregiving Experience Requires a Change in Your Thinking first appeared on Caregiving Kinetics ..read more

I have been thinking about a Rand Corporation study[1] that sought to explain, organize, and quantify the various trajectories of chronic illness that we commonly see today. The study classified elderly people who are approaching death into three different groups: one group dies after a short period of evident decline (a typical course of death [...] Read More... from How to Chart Your Caregiving Experience: Insights on the Dynamics of Care The post How to Chart Your Caregiving Experience: Insights on the Dynamics of Care first appeared on Caregiving Kinetics ..read more

I recently delivered the keynote address at the Baltimore County Department of Aging’s Annual Caregiver Conference. The theme of the conference was “It’s All About Perspective: Caregiving Through a Different Lens,” which beautifully summarizes the approach I take when working with family caregivers. During my 90-minute presentation, the caregivers and I reviewed and discussed The [...] Read More... from From Mindset to Mindshift: The Inevitable Path of Family Caregivers The post From Mindset to Mindshift: The Inevitable Path of Family Caregivers first appeared on Caregiving Kinetics ..read more