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... 
by Doug Jones | Jun 2, 2021 | Caregiver Burnout, Family Care, Siblings, Tips for Family Caregivers
I hope you’re having a great week! For those of you who are taking care or managing care for a declining parent in addition to everything else you have on your plate, one thing we have to manage is stress – our stress! Oftentimes, we forget about personal stress... 