Award-winning Virtual Video Caregiver Summit – Caregiver Smile Summit 2 – Announces Full Agenda Virtual, On Demand Caregiver Summit – The second annual Caregiver Smile Summit recently announced their speaker lineup and agenda at www.caregiversummit.org. The Virtual, On Demand Summit, which you can access on your schedule, will feature video...
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Tips for Reducing Caregiver Stress
Tips for Reducing Caregiver Stress Caregiver stress – a topic often left unspoken, particularly with the emotions involved. Most especially for family caregivers, with guilt and confusion settling in when the line of duty and personal time seems to blur. Here are some tips from Senior Advice to help cope...
New Guide For Male Caregivers Available
A new book, Who Says Men Don’t Care? is written specifically for four generations of male caregivers. The premise of the Guide is that men care differently than women, and these differences present both opportunities and potential problems in all male caregiving situations. Knowing better who you are can make...
Caregiver Depression Two Times National Average
@Digital Vision, Getty Images Caring.com recently released the results of a new study, in which 86 percent of caregivers said that caregiving impacted their work situation because they had to take time away from their jobs, quit, retire early, reduce hours, or take a leave of absence. Twenty-five percent of...
British Caregiver Survey Tool Can Help U.S.
A new manual to provide health and social workers with a tool to measure the quality of life of adult, unpaid caregivers has been launched by The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, in association with the University of Nottingham in the U.K. It is a simple 40-item questionnaire that measures...
Caregiver Help for Those Caring for Veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has opened a toll-free National Caregiver Support Line that will serve as a primary resource/referral center to assist caregivers, Veterans and others seeking caregiver information can call the line, which is staffed by VA employees who are licensed clinical social workers. The Support Line...
Family Caregiver Survey Explores Use of Technology
United Healthcare in connection with the National Alliance for Caregiving recently conducted a survey to examine family caregiversäó» receptivity to technology. The study assessed how helpful 12 technologies would be in supporting caregivers or helping them provide care. The 1,000 family caregivers surveyed have expectations for the technology including: being...
Lotsa Helping Hands Can Do Lotsa Good
In a recent blog I talked about a community service web site called See, Click, Fix. Through their platform, anyone can report and track non-emergency issues anywhere in the world via the internet. In the process this empowers citizens, community groups, media organizations and governments to take care of and...