How to Leverage Technology to Meet Your Needs as a Caregiver
Guest Author: Mia Barnes Caring for a family member is a challenging experience. You often juggle numerous duties, from managing medications to coordinating appointments — not to mention your other work- and family-related matters on top of that. Fortunately, technology offers a range of tools that can help you streamline…
Should I Tell My Boss I’m a Caregiver?
“Should I tell my boss I’m a caregiver?” This is a question I hear almost every week from women trying to balance eldercare and their careers. The answer? “It depends.” Read on for advice on how decide if sharing your caregiving responsibilities is the right choice for your situation, along…
What if there was a Working Daughter in the White House?
In the Working Daughter community, we don’t talk politics. At least not overtly. On one level, so much of what we discuss is about politics, because caregiver support, and more specifically, the lack of it, is political. On the other hand, we don’t mention it because working daughters – juggling…
Feeling Overwhelmed? It Could Be the Caregiver Creep
Feeling overwhelmed? It could be the Caregiver Creep. I was busy – living the life of the typical middle class mother – working in an exciting but high stress job and juggling my job with homework assignments, soccer practices, and school plays. My parents lived approximately an a hour away…
Best Places to Work for Working Daughters 2024
These 10 companies are the best places to work for working daughters balancing eldercare with career.
My Open Letter To The Surgeon General: Let’s Make Eldercare an HHS Priority
Last week, the U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory on the Mental Health & Well-Being of Parents and part of me felt seen and supported, but another part of me felt invisible and alone Now perhaps the Surgeon General’s office is at work readying an advisory that recognizes that the…
17 Of Our Favorite (And Simple) Self-Care Tips
“You should take care of yourself,” may be the most annoying sentence someone can say to a working daughter. When you’re caring for someone else, you see firsthand how precious health is – both mental and physical. So taking care of yourself is not a matter of should; it’s a…
What To Do With Your Parents’ Stuff
How do you get rid of your parents’ stuff? It’s time to tackle the stuff! Maybe you got your parents to agree to start decluttering. Maybe they need to downsize. Or maybe, you are tackling this project on your own, after a move to memory care, or perhaps, after a…
When A Parent In A Nursing Home Says I Want To Go Home
What do you do when a parent in a nursing home, or any type of senior living arrangement, asks about going home?
Special Offer from In-Home Medication Manager from Hero
One of the first stressors I felt as a working daughter was helping my mother manage her 14 different medications. For a long time she managed her own medication, sorting her pills into one of those plastic pill organizers she bought at CVS. Over time, managing her own medication became…
Palliative Care and Hospice Care: What are they? What’s the difference?
The terms palliative care and hospice care often cause unnecessary worry and stress. In this article, we explain the two types of care, and, the difference between them.
I Put My Grief in Storage
An essay on grief. Grief never goes away, but as we learn to live with it, can we pack it away like we do our winter clothes??
