Seasons Greetings from Tender Loving Eldercare
Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. ~ Oren Arnold (1900-1980) No matter where you live, whether it’s warm, cold, snowing or raining outside, I hope you will get cozy [...]
Inspiring Quotes for Caregivers — 12/2/09
Please watch at least the first two minutes of the following inspiring video. The quality of the film isn’t super sharp, but the message is clear as a bell! If you have trouble viewing the above, please click here. When I dance, I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I [...]
A Caregiver Logistics Tip and Contest Winner Announcement
I actually heard this idea while at the hairdresser and thought it was simply brilliant! The woman who came up with this idea has an elderly mother still able to live in her own home but only with the assistance of different caregivers on various shifts during the week. Her mother has dementia so in [...]
Inspiring Quotes for Caregivers — 11/25/09
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity . . . Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~ Melody Beattie At this time of gratitude and reflection, [...]
Announcing a TLeC Contest for National Family Caregivers Month 2009
“Music is part of being human.” ~ Oliver W. Sacks To continue our celebration of and gratitude for all caregivers during National Family Caregivers Month 2009, TLeC is holding it’s very first contest! It is open to all caregivers, families employing caregivers, and/or eldercare professionals in the U.S.A. It starts November 16, 2009 and all [...]
Contests for Caregivers during National Family Caregivers Month — November 2009
National Family Caregivers Month is about celebrating and showing our gratitude for family caregivers, both near and far. It is our chance to publicly or privately shine the spotlight on these wonderfully giving individuals. Here is an excerpt from President Obama’s Proclamation about National Family Caregivers Month, 2009: The true strength of the American family [...]
Hospice Care, Part 5: Another Family’s Hospice Experience
Cindy is a dear friend whom I met around 1980. Together we’ve experienced many of life’s milestones — single life, finding our Mr. Right’s, weddings, married life, having children, watching them grow, and caring for our parents. Our mothers both spent their final days on hospice but their hospice experiences were different in many ways: [...]
Caregiving and the Holidays
Now that it’s November, the countdown to the holidays has officially begun. While most of the world seems to be living on a holiday “high,” caregivers often struggle through this time of year with great, and often hidden, sadness in their hearts. For family caregivers the holiday season can be both blessing and a curse. [...]
I’m Proud to be Blogging for a Cause
I’m excited to share this blogging project with everyone here at TLeC and beyond! Two bloggers, Lance Ekum and Joanna Sutter, teamed up to create a very special e-book and in doing so make a difference in the world. They asked writers worldwide to contribute articles to their unique and on line vision of a [...]
Inspiring Quotes for Caregivers — 10/28/09
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ~ Carl Sandburg Time is something that once spent, you won’t ever get back. Be sure to take time for [...]
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