by Doug Jones | Sep 29, 2021 | Articles, Caregiver Burnout, Family Care, Tips for Family Caregivers
Time to Pull Out The Old and Plant the New! The seasons are changing and now it’s time to focus on autumn. Last night, Cindy & I pulled up some of the last remaining recently deceased remnants of the garden that we planted earlier this year. Many of these plants... 
by Doug Jones | Sep 20, 2021 | Caregiver Burnout, Family Care, Tips for Family Caregivers
Hitting the Wall of Burnout! Most of us deal with our emotions on a daily basis. Some of them are good and some are bad. On a typical day, the good emotions may far outweigh the bad emotions. Sometimes we suppress our emotions – has someone ever said something... 
by Doug Jones | Aug 21, 2021 | Articles, Caregiver Burnout, Family Care
Rate vs. Rhythm! Every time I go to the doctor, one of the first things they do is to take my pulse. Guess they still want to know whether I’m alive before they start! Obviously I’m not a medical person, but from my understanding, the act of taking a pulse helps the... 
by Doug Jones | Jul 24, 2021 | Articles, Caregiver Burnout, Family Care, Tips for Family Caregivers
Saving the Helper Spouse from hitting the wall – or worse! We see the struggling “Helper Spouse” situation almost every week. This is a sad real life situation where one of the spouses starts to decline in physical or cognitive health and the other one tries to... 
by Doug Jones | Jun 22, 2021 | Articles, Caregiver Burnout, Family Care, Tips for Family Caregivers
Helping Two at Once! The sandwich generation can loosely be described as a group of middle-aged adults who are providing care for their aging parents and their children at home at the same time. According to some reports, 47% of people spend at least two hours a day... 
by Doug Jones | Jun 9, 2021 | Articles, Caregiver Burnout, Tips for Family Caregivers
A Threefold Cord Cannot Easily Be Broken! The Holy Bible has a saying which I have seen proved true of the years. In Ecclesiastes 4:12, the Bible tells us that “though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly...