Newsletter Archive (by topics)
Caregiver Experience
1. Basics:
- Stages of caregiving: stage 1, stage 2, stage 3
- Caregiver Awareness Month: article 1, article 2
- Caregiver language
- “Informal” caregiver
2. Types of caregiving and perspectives:
- Caregiver voices: what to be aware of
- A day in a life of a caregiver
- Being your child’s caregiver
- Young caregivers
- Working caregivers
- Interview with a working caregiver
- Rural and remote caregiver
- Caregiving from a distance: article 1, article 2
- Caregiving and siblings
3. Emotional aspects and self-care in caregiving:
- Importance of caregiver appreciation
- Importance of asking for help
- Assertiveness in caregiving
- How to say “no” as a caregiver
- Importance of trust in caregiving
- Acceptance in caregiving
- Forgiveness in caregiving
- Compassionate caregiver communication
- Caregivers and keeping secrets
- Anxiety over aging parents living independently
- Care recipient's right to live "at risk"
- Hoarding: what is behind this behaviour and how to process it
Mental health
1. Connection and social support:
- Importance of connection and social isolation in Nova Scotia
- Dangers of social isolation and resources
- The benefits of pet therapy
2. Seasonal Wellbeing:
- Tips for caregivers during the holidays
- Decreasing stress around the holidays
- Caregiver wishlist for Christmas
- Potential New Year’s resolutions for caregivers
- Caregiver winter wellness
- 5 winter survival tips
- Nurtured by nature: importance of outdoors
3. Self-Care, Mindfulness, Resilience:
- Honouring your needs while tending to another’s needs
- Self-compassion
- How we practice self-care (Caregivers NS staff)
- Glimmers into glows
- Practicing happiness
- Positivity
- Mindfulness
- Mindfulness exercise: Up the 10
- Emotional resilience exercise: QTIP
- Avoiding toxic emotions
Practical tips
1. Health:
- Improving communication with healthcare providers
- The benefits of virtual care for caregivers
- Overlooked vaccines
- Helping your loved one process a new diagnosis (Tales from the other side)
2. Legal:
- Probate
- Frauds and scams: article 1, article 2
- Employment Insurance Caregiving Benefits
3. Finances:
4. Home maintenance:
5. Important conversations and decisions:
- Important discussions with a care recipient
- Avoiding mistakes when hiring private care providers
- Safe driving: article 1, article 2
- Transitioning to long-term care
- Preserving memories with a care recipient (A Christmas Story)
End-of-life caregiving
- What is grief?
- Life in Transition
- Caregivers and difficult decisions
- Self-care for the palliative caregiver
- Four personal perspectives on end-of-life caregiving
- A nine-year-old’s perspective on death and dying
- Grieving a passed parent
- Survivor’s guilt
Dementia caregiving
- When they want to ‘go home’: redirecting distress behaviours
- Fidget mats for people with dementia
- The caregiving dance: Ivan and Sheila’s story
Partnering organizations
- How 211 Nova Scotia can help
- How 811 can help
- Advance care planning
- Cancer society: Voices for change
- Efficiency Nova Scotia
- Project Lifesaver
- Seniors Safety Program
- Various support resources
- VirtualCareNS
Recipes
1. Entrees/snacks
2. Soups
3. Main course
4. Desserts
- Whipped shortbread cookies
- Cape Breton Long Johns
- Hummingbird bread
- Hummingbird cake
- War cake
- Dad’s favourite carrot cake
- Angus’ Pots de Crème
5. Drinks