by Doug Jones | Jul 29, 2021 | Family Care, Pivot Plan, Tips for Family Caregivers
Didn’t See That One Coming! Cindy & I live out of town a bit – just enough to get a taste of farm life. Recently, a man from out of town was baling hay on the neighboring property. He was trying to beat the rain and was a little less than half done when... 
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 | Jul 21, 2021 | Family Care, Tips for Family Caregivers
Too Much or Too Little Help! Over the years we have seen two basic ways that families look at when providing help for a declining parent. Both ways work and neither are “better than the other”. What works is what’s best for each individual family. Here are the two... 
by Doug Jones | Jul 17, 2021 | Articles, Family Care, Stories, Tips for Family Caregivers
Doing it All Yourself Can Cost You! Recently our dishwasher died. Of course I thought I could fix it myself! After all, how hard could it be anyway? Weeks later, still no clean dishes – at least no clean dishes from the dishwasher! The simple situation was about... 
by Doug Jones | Jul 7, 2021 | Articles, Family Care, Tips for Family Caregivers
3 Lessons From Our Founding Fathers Many of you celebrated Independence Day yesterday on the 4th of July, but since it occurred on the weekend, some of you will also be celebrating today. Today we’re going to briefly revisit history and extract 3 lessons that we can... 
by Doug Jones | Jul 2, 2021 | Articles, Family Care, Tips for Family Caregivers
In the Garden, Staying Engaged! Cindy grew up in her family’s version of The Little House on the Prairie. A medium size house + a really big (400 acres) yard. Her family farmed rice and soybeans so Cindy was “volunteered” to help before she could even talk. So I guess... 