Caring for Someone with COPD
Caregiving for someone with COPD can be challenging and exhausting. However, it's important to keep yourself healthy, emotionally and physically, to best care for your loved one. Sorting through your own emotions about your loved one's diagnosis is the first step to helping them navigate life with COPD.
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COPD Caregiver Perspectives - Accepting the Changes in Your Loved One
More often than not, I suspect caregivers of COPD patients will be either spouses or grown children. Either way, the changes you see in your loved one will require a tremendous adjustment. I say this because by the time a COPD patient needs caregiving support, they are probably in the latter stages of the disease, debilitated to the point where…
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Kathi MacNaughton, Health Pro, posted COPD Caregiver Perspectives - Four… It's not easy being a caregiver for a person with COPD. I have lived that…
Kathi MacNaughton, Health Pro, posted 10 Tips for Coping Successfully with… A few years back, one of the Harvard Medical School publications put out a…
Kathi MacNaughton, Health Pro, posted Caregiver Perspectives - Dealing After… If you follow my shareposts here on HealthCentral, then you may be aware…
Kathi MacNaughton, Health Pro, commented on COPD Caregiver Perspectives - Accepting… Dee... The grieving you are going through is a process. No one can say…
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