Did you know that Family Caregivers of BC has a professional who provides free 1:1 Caregiver Coaching appointments for family caregivers?
5 Key Strategies to Stay Sane as a Caregiver!
Unpaid caregivers, which are typically family but also include friends and neighbors remain an invisible pillar in Canada’s health care system and yet make up over 25% of our population.
The Work/Caregiving Balance
You are in a work meeting and your cell phone vibrates. You ignore it. Two minutes later, it vibrates again. You check the number and see it’s your mother calling. Between meetings you call her back and she tells you she needs to go to a doctor’s appointment that afternoon. You wish that she had […]
A Caregiver’s Perspective
England, Wales, Normandy, France, the Camino Trail and hours of desert hiking in the Palm Desert. These are just a few places Greer Rosequist has hiked in her lifetime.
What’s Next? What to do when someone you’re caring for needs more help
In our January 2016 Network News, we featured an article “Stepping Over The Invisible Line!” , which addressed the ever tricky question of knowing how to tell if someone we are caring for needs more help. Once the discovery is made that more support is needed, the following question from family caregivers is often, “So […]