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Caregiving, When Everything Hurts
A week ago, I visited my Pop Pop for his 96th birthday. I brought a big sign with me, with dozens of messages from people all over the country – family in Indiana, friends in Mississippi, Twitter...
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When the Caregiver Doesn’t Take Care of Herself
Right now my Biofreeze pain reliever and my packing tape are my best friends! It’s a subtle thing. It happens bit by bit…it creeps up and then one time too many of lifting the wheelchair into the trunk...
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Using Social Media to Support Sandy Victims
Hurricane Sandy roared into the East Coast during my first week as the AARP’s new social media trainer. I noticed how many people were sharing incorrect information on social media and wrote a post...
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8 Ways That Grandparents Really Rock!
This Sunday is National Grandparents Day and to celebrate, I’ve compiled a list of the eight reasons I think grandparents are beyond fabulous: They’re grand role models. This generation of grandparents...
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Standing with Caregivers
Gracie and Peter Rosenberger The following is a guest post by Peter Rosenberger – Caregiver and AARP Tennessee Volunteer Today’s 65 million caregivers often find themselves pulling their hair out as...
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More Filial Support Cases Ending Up in Court
Some 30 states have “filial support” or “filial responsibility” laws, which create a statutory duty for adult children to provide financially for their parents if the parents cannot otherwise pay....
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Let’s Give Caregivers the Support They Deserve
You get up, get dressed, cook breakfast, make bag lunches for the kids, drop the kids off at school, rush to work, prepare for a big meeting, call to check in on your mom during lunch, go to your...
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Caregiving Spouses More Likely to Take on Medical Tasks
Spouses who are caregivers are significantly more likely than other family caregivers (adult children, for example) to perform many of the tasks that health care professionals do – including medication...
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Why Phoning Your Children Just Isn’t Enough
The medium is the message, Marshall McLuhan famously noted. And in a touch screen world, our relationships with our adult children improve with the more communications media we use. While millennials...
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AARP Supports and Honors Veterans and Their Families
Doug Dickerson in Afghanistan I’m proud to say that AARP’s efforts to understand and respond to the special needs of America’s veterans and their families have moved forward in leaps and bounds in...
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New Bill in Congress Aims to Support Family Caregivers
Forty million Americans care for their older parents, spouses and other loved ones to help them live independently, at home, each and every day — I am one of them. We family caregivers help with...
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My Top Tips for Caregivers, as Seen on ‘Today’ Show
Amy Goyer shares her top tips for caregivers, as seen on NBC’s Today show with Kathie Lee and Hoda. Recently, I appeared on the Today show with Kathie Lee and Hoda to share some of my best tips for...
View ArticleAre You a Family Caregiver? Find Help Here
When caring for Mom and Pop, my siblings and I struggled to find someone who could provide home care for our parents when we couldn’t. We wanted a person who was kind and caring, but we also wanted...
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It’s in Giving That We Receive
It was a few days before Christmas when our family got the news that Mom would be in the hospital for the holidays. Family caregiving can be tough enough, but somehow it is a bit tougher when your...
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Standing with Caregivers
Gracie and Peter Rosenberger The following is a guest post by Peter Rosenberger – Caregiver and AARP Tennessee Volunteer Today’s 65 million caregivers often find themselves pulling their hair out as...
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More Filial Support Cases Ending Up in Court
Some 30 states have “filial support” or “filial responsibility” laws, which create a statutory duty for adult children to provide financially for their parents if the parents cannot otherwise pay....
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Let’s Give Caregivers the Support They Deserve
You get up, get dressed, cook breakfast, make bag lunches for the kids, drop the kids off at school, rush to work, prepare for a big meeting, call to check in on your mom during lunch, go to your...
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Caregiving Spouses More Likely to Take on Medical Tasks
Spouses who are caregivers are significantly more likely than other family caregivers (adult children, for example) to perform many of the tasks that health care professionals do – including medication...
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Why Phoning Your Children Just Isn’t Enough
The medium is the message, Marshall McLuhan famously noted. And in a touch screen world, our relationships with our adult children improve with the more communications media we use. While millennials...
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AARP Supports and Honors Veterans and Their Families
Doug Dickerson in Afghanistan Revised 11/11/2016 AARP serves Americans as we age, and that certainly includes our nation’s veterans and their families. If you or someone in your family is a veteran,...
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