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 - Getting… This is the next post in an ongoing series on the 5-stage grieving…
Kathi MacNaughton, Health Pro, posted COPD Caregiver Perspectives - Dealing… As I discussed in the last post in this series, caring for a person with…
Kathi MacNaughton, Health Pro, posted On Becoming a COPD Caregiver - My Story It's a fact... living with COPD isn't a fun experience, no matter how hard you…
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