Caregiver Recipe Exchange!
I love food and I love to cook. But like any other caregiver, I often have no time to make something healthy and delicious, so that's when ...
Donna Thomson
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For National Caregiver Day, A Reflection on Receiving Care
Yesterday I had a fascinating conversation with Laurel Wittman, President of the Well Spouse Association . Laurel is a long-time carer for...
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When a Book Hits So Close to Home: The Lady With The Crown
When I was very young, I wished for some big event to happen to me, something truly dramatic - tragic, even. I hadn't yet heard the expressi...
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All Together Now! The Power of Teamwork in Caregiving
I actually published this post a few months ago but I want to reprise it because (pause for happy dance), I am hosting Dr. Brian Goldman on ...
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Canada’s Caregiving Crisis and HOW TO FIX IT
Buckle up because today, the new Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence released a white paper on the crisis state of caregiving in Cana...
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November Caregiver Support Challenge
November is many things. For Canadians it's the dark month, the lead-up to Christmas. For Americans, it's Thanksgiving month. For all of u...
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Artists as Designers of Dying and Funerals
I've been thinking about death and dying a lot lately. Maybe that's because I watched all of the Queen's funeral or maybe it's because I r...
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The Perfect Fake Independence
The other day I was browsing facebook posts in an online caregiver support group when I read, "My mother was living the perfect life of fa...
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Wish a Caregiver Happy Labour Day!
The feminist scholar Arlene Kaplan Daniels coined the phrase "invisible work" to describe the many tasks that women have traditionally pe...
