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When a Loved One Dies: Transition, Grief & Moving On
When a Loved One Dies: Transition, Grief & Moving On
When your loved one has passed away, your self-care is more important than ever. Although caregiver support services do not yet have a…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Mar 9, 2020
Family Caregiver Support Program (FCSP) Summary of Community Services
Family Caregiver Support Program (FCSP) Summary of Community Services
To reiterate the purpose of ongoing family caregiver support services, the goal is to monitor and encourage your self-care so that you can…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Mar 6, 2020
How Family Caregivers Can Prevent Falls at Home
How Family Caregivers Can Prevent Falls at Home
Decreasing risks for falls or “fall prevention” is often targeted in older adults, but this can also help you as the family caregiver. You…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Mar 3, 2020
The Nagi Model Applied for Optimum Aging
The Nagi Model Applied for Optimum Aging
What does it mean to be healthy? When health companies focus on “wellness” what are they referring to? It can be any number of aspects of…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Mar 1, 2020
How Can the Vocational Dimension of Wellness Help Family Caregivers?
How Can the Vocational Dimension of Wellness Help Family Caregivers?
If you no longer identify in the work role you had previously, you might have to figure out ways to be happy in your new role as a family…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Feb 27, 2020
Family History of Alzheimer’s: Better Brain Health
Family History of Alzheimer’s: Better Brain Health
When we target intellectual wellness, we are talking about brain health. Everything healthy we can do for our brains is closely related to…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Feb 25, 2020
Socialization for the Isolated Caregiver & Care Receiver
Socialization for the Isolated Caregiver & Care Receiver
Family caregivers tend to become socially isolated, especially if they are living with the one who needs assistance, companionship, or…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Feb 19, 2020
How Spiritual Wellness Can Help Family Caregivers
How Spiritual Wellness Can Help Family Caregivers
For some people, their “church” is nature — being in a place where you can become one with nature and this earth.
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Feb 17, 2020
Emotional Health & Wellness When Taking Care of a Loved One
Emotional Health & Wellness When Taking Care of a Loved One
Most of the time family caregivers are surprised at the results and do not realize they were so emotionally low.
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Feb 11, 2020
Water for Family Caregivers & Why Dehydration is Common
Water for Family Caregivers & Why Dehydration is Common
Your body regulates water according to thirst, but the thirst signal lags and it is telling you that you are already 2–3 cups dehydrated…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Feb 8, 2020
The Benefits of Exercise for Family Caregivers
The Benefits of Exercise for Family Caregivers
Another way besides nutrition to set goals focusing on physical wellness is to start exercising or even increasing your daily physical…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Jan 30, 2020
Nutrition for Family Caregivers
Nutrition for Family Caregivers
Unless you have a disease affecting food and vitamin needs specific to your body, nutrition basics have not changed — only the diet myths…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Jan 27, 2020
The Meaning of Self-Care for Family Caregivers
The Meaning of Self-Care for Family Caregivers
Self-care is a way to bring back balance into the caregiver’s unbalanced life of focusing on the loved one they are helping…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Jan 22, 2020
The Hospital Shuffle: When Families MUST Advocate
The Hospital Shuffle: When Families MUST Advocate
A personal story about how my mom died in the hospital when she was perfectly healthy. And how an advance healthcare directive guided us.
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Jan 17, 2020
LGBTQ Seniors & Family Caregivers
LGBTQ Seniors & Family Caregivers
Discrimination exists for LGBTQ older adults. If your loved one is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning and chooses not to…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Jan 13, 2020
When Family Caregivers Become Isolated & Depressed: The Impact of Transportation & Housing
When Family Caregivers Become Isolated & Depressed: The Impact of Transportation & Housing
Transportation and housing become difficult for everybody as they get older. People retire and are no longer working, they lose the…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Jan 9, 2020
Becoming a Caregiver at Home: Altered Family Dynamics & Self-Care
Becoming a Caregiver at Home: Altered Family Dynamics & Self-Care
The dominant spouse becomes submissive, adult children care for parents, the younger sibling takes care of the older sibling, roles change…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Jan 6, 2020
When Family Caregivers Deal with Subjective Cognitive Decline, Alzheimer’s and Dementia
When Family Caregivers Deal with Subjective Cognitive Decline, Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Over 100 different types of dementia, Alzheimer’s being the most common with brain changes occurring 20 years prior to noticeable symptoms.
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Jan 2, 2020
Transitioning Your Loved One Into Assisted Living or a Board and Care Home
Transitioning Your Loved One Into Assisted Living or a Board and Care Home
Sometimes when families visit during the holidays they realize it’s no longer safe for a loved one to live alone at home. Long-term care…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Dec 21, 2019
You Are Not Alone: Family Caregiver Support & Respite
You Are Not Alone: Family Caregiver Support & Respite
Where do you find a Family Caregiver Support Program (FCSP)? Knowing general lingo such as family caregiver and respite, these alone can…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Dec 13, 2019
Your Future Older Self: Why You Would EVER Possibly Need A Caregiver
Your Future Older Self: Why You Would EVER Possibly Need A Caregiver
You go about your daily tasks like normal and think that you will never need help with them. Not many people plan for long-term care, or…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Dec 5, 2019
Conversations and Planning for Future Care Needs Starts NOW
Conversations and Planning for Future Care Needs Starts NOW
Who will be your caregiver? Who will you be taking care of? Before you are thrust into the caregiver role it is important to talk with…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Nov 20, 2019
Identify as a Family Caregiver to Access Resources
Identify as a Family Caregiver to Access Resources
You are a family caregiver. Any support, services, and resources you seek will use this lingo, so you need to identify as a family…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Nov 3, 2019
How It Begins for Caregivers: Driving to Appointments & Just Helping Out
How It Begins for Caregivers: Driving to Appointments & Just Helping Out
Often, the path to becoming a family caregiver starts with simply helping out. You drive your loved one to doctor’s appointments. Your…
Amy Blackburn, MSG, MPH
Oct 7, 2019
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