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 | Sep 15, 2021 | Articles, Family Care, Tips for Family Caregivers
Discussions Make a Difference! What do you do when you see a parent declining in health? You truly feel they need help, but don’t really know where to start. Today we’re going to talk about working together as a family to make a decision. In situations where the... 
by Doug Jones | Aug 28, 2021 | Family Care, Tips for Family Caregivers
Up Front Discussions Make a Difference! Something happens to Momma and we react immediately! We are confused but feel called into action so we just start running. We don’t know where, but it’s an emergency, so we start running with no direction. If we stop to ask for... 
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...