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Sisterhood and Brain Health for Recovering Caregivers

By Carol December 20th, 2011

Once we got our new iPad email working and used the Photo Booth app to take some funny pictures of ourselves, we wondered what to do next with our intriguing Little Buddy. The problem is not a scarcity of possibilities. According to official Apple sources, there are over 140,000 iPad apps available—many of them free. Too many to sort through on our own.

No problem. Sister Judi–an iPhone owner and aficionado—to the rescue. She undertook to coach me in advanced techniques of using the “Home” button and also suggested a few challenging and enlightening apps. High on our list are Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja. I also learned that she is the creator of her own app—Smart Tot Rattle!

Her next move was to challenge me to a game of Words with Friends.

I’m …

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Making Sense of Health Care Insanity

By Judi December 11th, 2011

In my last post I talked about my upcoming liver biopsy, my 3rd needle biopsy this year. I wrote that after reading the results of my latest CT scan, my health care team believed that they could get a large enough sample to figure out what is going on with me. When my doctor told me this, she said she had consulted with a radiologist and a surgeon and they felt confident that there would be some answers this time (the definition of insanity is…?). Well, I guess everyone was confident except the doctor who would actually perform the biopsy!

There I lay, in the hospital, all comfy in my drafty gown with a tube attached to my vein, when in comes the doctor to tell me that he is “pessimistic” that he would …

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Being Thankful

By Judi November 27th, 2011

Thanksgiving is the time when we pause to acknowledge the things that we are thankful for. Right up at the top of the list for many of us is our family, our jobs and our health.

My husband left today to travel for work. This time, Portland is where the jobs are. The trip takes 6 1/2 hours in his truck so he will not be able to make it home every weekend. I probably won’t see him until Christmas. Thankfully, Willie has family in Portland.

When Willie is home, it is usually because he is laid off from his job as a UA Pipe Fitter. The last time he worked was just before our wedding, so he has been home and taking care of me for almost 3 months. I rely on …

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Mark Your Calendar for the AARP Family Caregiver Forum

By Carol November 22nd, 2011

Here is the link to sign on to the webcast on Dec 1 http://meta.media.qualitytech.com/m/wm/wlj-01/COMP008760SCH1_AARP_Caregiving_Forum.wvx And here is a link to the current website describing the event http://www.aarp.org/relationships/caregiving/info-11-2011/Solutions-ForumThe-Challenges-of-Family-Caregiving-What-Needs-To-Be-Done.html This is an important event for all caregivers who can participate.

The Challenges of Family Caregiving: What Needs to Be Done?

9:00 AM-Noon

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Connect Via Live Webcast

Prominent authors and experts discuss the difficulties faced by millions of family caregivers coping with our health and long-term services and supports (LTSS) systems. They will explore how public policies can more effectively address the needs of caregivers and provide insight on how health care professionals can improve support for family caregivers. Audience participation is encouraged.

Speakers:

Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs (Moderator)

Susan Reinhard, RN, Ph.D., FAAN; …

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My Elderly Father's Change Of Heart

By Carol October 4th, 2011

I am excited to realize that we have been publishing Inside Aging Parent Care for a year and a half now. In celebration of this most recent anniversary, here is our very first post:

For many of us, it begins with a phone call. In our case, the call came from my 89 year old father late in the spring of 2008. He had been released from Waterman Hospital after his third bout with pneumonia a few weeks earlier. “I’ve been thinking,” he said, “why am I here when you are there?”

We had often encouraged Dad to consider moving from his home at an assisted living facility in Central Florida to join us in Denver where Bill and I have lived for the past twenty years. Up until now he had always resisted …

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