Articles

Articles on Family Caregiving
(With a Focus on Dementia and other Neurological Illnesses)

All the articles in this section were written when Sheryl worked as a Family Consultant and newsletter editor for Del Mar Caregiver Resource Center, a program of Health Projects Center which is an innovative nonprofit on the central coast of California.

•Alternative Therapies for Dementia Patients

•Who Can You Trust about Alternative Approaches to Dementia Care?

•Currying Your Way to Health - Turmeric and the Brain

•Elephants Never Forget -- They Eat Brahmi

•Berry Good for the Brain - The Role of Antioxidants

•Healing Through the Human Energy Field

•Music as a Therapeutic Tool

•Are You Having Trouble Finding Paid Help?

•Are You Prepared for an Emergency?

•A Special Love: Verna Mae and Lisa Ledin

•Brief Respite

•Caregiver Buddhism

•Caregiving and Deferred Dreams: Creating an Action Plan to help You Cope

•Change Your Thoughts -- Change How You Feel

•Compassion for All Concerned

•Conflict Resolution in Family Caregiving

•Connections Between Patient and Caregiver Mental Health

•The Default Caregiver — Do You Really Have to Be?

•Do It With Love or Don't Do It

•Elder Fraud / Elder Abuse -- Could You Be Committing a Crime and Not Know It?

•Embrace the Present, Embrace Possibility

•The Effect of Worry and What to Do About It

•Family Caregiving as a Hero's Journey

•Flat Land

•Gathering Resources for Long Term Care

•Giving It All for Love

•Gratefulness

•Home is Where the Heart Is - what to do when your dementia patient keeps asking to "go home"

•How Do You Perceive Your Caregiving Role?

•How to help long-time caregivers entrenched in doing what needs to be done with little or no help from family and friends.

•How to Start Your Own Caregiver Group

•Is it possible to prevent Alzheimer's Disease and Reverse Early-Stage Memory Loss?

•Learning to Trust When You Really Don't Know

•Loneliness May Be Hazardous To Your Health

•Losing Perspective by Compulsively Trying Harder

•Miscellaneous Food Tidbits in Regards to Dementia Care

•The Power of Noticing What's Going Well

•Relax - It's a Holiday! - Holidays and Dementia Care

•Share the Care A Program for Organizing a Care Team that Really Works

•To Move or Not to Move -- How to Decide What to Do When a Loved One Can't Live Alone Anymore

•The Choice to Keep a Loved One at Home

•Should I Move in with Grandma?

•Should I Move My Parents in With Me?

•Should My Relative Move into Assisted Living?

•Deciding to Use a Nursing Home

•The Seven Psychospiritual Dimensions of Family Caregiving

•The Six Stages of Change

•The Spiritual Rewards of Caregiving

•Spring Cleaning

•Stepping Into the River

•Think Outside the Box When It Comes to Paying for Services

•Traveling with Dementia

•What's Love Got To Do With The Price Of Caregiving?

•When the Patient Dies and Long Term Caregiving Comes to an End

•What's So Great About Caregiving?

•When I Am An Old Woman

•When Someone You Love is Depressed and Demented

•Who "Ought" to Help

•Writing a Letter to Someone You Love

•You Say You Want a Revolution?

•24 Hour Caregiving

© Copyright 2007 Sheryl Karas & Paul Hood

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