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Bladder Cancer Caregiving Is a Partnership
Caregiving for a loved one with bladder cancer can strengthen your connection to each other, adding a new dimension to your relationship.
Caregiver or Care Partner? How Terminology Evolves With Awareness
Care partner implies that the person who is living with the disease and the person providing care are equal and that is as it should be. But this isn’t always the case, so when are you a caregiver, and when are you a care partner?
Are You a Depressed Caregiver?
Feel like you’re letting everyone down? Have you become isolated? Carol outlines these ways and more that might signify you’re depressed as a caregiver.
8 Tips for Coping With Anxiety as a Caregiver
Hobbies, journaling, exercise, can all help when handling anxiety as a caregiver. Our caregiving expert shares these and more tips.
When the Caregiver Has a Chronic Condition, Too
While you’re caring for others with chronic conditions, you’re not immune to one yourself. Some days you are forced to push through caring for others, while you yourself are suffering.
Caring for the Caregivers
Caregivers are human, too, and they need a little help once in while to make sure they don't get burned out. Here's how to lighten their load.
Fresh Outlook Can Help Caregivers
It’s common for caregivers to feel stressed about constant changes as well as numbed by the sameness of needing to focus on the care of a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
Top Apps for Caregiving and Dementia Care to Make Life Easier
Smartphones and tablets have become an integral part of modern life, and they can even help caregivers and their loved ones living with dementia.
Let Patients Help: Q&A With "e-Patient Dave"
HealthCentral talks to "e-Patient Dave," an advocate who empowers people with medical conditions to become active in their healthcare.
How to Handle the Realization That Your Parents Are Aging
It’s a hard reality to face, but reality it is. Your parents are aging. They are on their way to “being old.”