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Caregiving

Providing Elder Care Doesn’t Have to Affect Your Job Security

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I just read an interesting article in US News & World Report.  Entitled How Providing Elder Care Affects Your Job Security, the article spoke about the workplace inflexibility people face when caring for parents versus that of their children.
Employees providing eldercare say they have significantly less access to the flexible work options needed to fulfill [...]

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People Rise to the Occasion….If You Let Them

I am excited to share some thoughts today, because they are driven by a question I received from a colleague of mine. She asked, “I remember when we worked together, your mom was in that skilled nursing place in San Diego. What made you move her to assisted living?”
My answer: People rise [...]

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Caregivers Do More Than Give Care

At lunch this week, a co-worker overheard me talking to my mom’s caregiver. When I hung up, he asked me, “What exactly does a caregiver do?” While at first I thought the answer to be pretty obvious, I realized it is more complex.
I learned over the last few years that the right caregiver [...]

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