“25 Simple Tips for Caregivers” and “Katrin’s Korners” were published with the caregiver and the patient in mind.
These books and my efforts through HomeBoundResources and the blog are a labor of love for me. When I look back on 17 years of my life as a caregiver, I feel an obligation to share with you the lessons of this experience. Together, as a community, we have a wealth of knowledge from which others can benefit.
Please check out these two publications, available for purchase at http://www.homeboundresources.com/publications.html
In the last year of my mother’s life, I hired a journalism student from California State University, Northridge to take dictation and transpose my mother’s delightful stories into a book for me and my family. These were the five, 10 and 15-minute vignettes that my mother had collected over her lifetime. The stories about my grandfather leaving his home on the Indian Reservation to become a cook on a wagon train, the one about my grandmother’s first experience driving a car without knowing where the brakes were, the time my sister, Debbie, drug a garden hose into the neighbor’s dirty house, so she could help with the cleaning!
I could go on and on with these stories, but if you enjoy Author Robert Fulghum, then you are bound to enjoy “Katrin’s Korners” by Author Katherine Alice Budd Glenn! It goes to show you that some of your life’s greatest accomplishments can be made from your hospital bed!
“25 Simple Tips for Caregivers” are some of the most basic instructions and ideas on how to use a bedpan, how to shampoo someone else’s hair, how to participate in a democratic society when it’s hard to leave the house. 25 Tips is hardly scratching the surface, but it’s a beginning, and I hope it’s a beginning that gets you thinking about other ideas that you can share to make a homebound experience less debilitating and more enriching.
HomeBoundResources.com
Tammy I. Glenn, Founder and CEO
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Special needs situations, like those we find in a home healthcare setting, demand special responses.
The fact that you’ve registered to participate in this blog is a sign that you are in a special needs situation. You are probably under a tremendous amount of stress and strain – both physically and emotionally – and you probably feel very alone right now.
Take heart…you are not alone.
For what it’s worth, the National Family Caregivers Association (visit their website at www.thefamilycaregiver.org/about/) estimates that there are approximately 54 million people in the nation currently caring for someone in need.It’s not an easy road, and that’s why I’ve created HomeBoundResources.com.
Let's not reinvent the wheel. Together, as a community, we are the experts in collecting and sharing the most important resources, information, and help for people who are challenged by a home healthcare situation.I really do care about how caregivers and patients achieve the highest standard of living possible. To that end, I recently introduced contributing writers as part of Tammy's Think Tank Team. Everybody benefits by a little help from their friends! Look for interesting articles on Fitness, Relationship Dynamics, Mobility, Overcoming Challenges. If you have an issue that needs addressed, let us know. You'd be surprised by the creative solutions people use!
I understand that every situation is different, and good advice in one situation may not be so appropriate in another. So, please let us know what’s working and what’s not. Visit http://www.homeboundresources.com/, and explore the tips, resources and publications available.
And, if you’ve got some advice of your own on a topic that I’ve written about, please feel free to e-mail your feedback to me. This effort works best when we all help each other.
From My Heart to Yours,
Tammy
Tammy@HomeBoundResources.com
Special needs situations, like those we find in a home healthcare setting, demand special responses.
The fact that you’ve registered to participate in this blog is a sign that you are in a special needs situation. You are probably under a tremendous amount of stress and strain – both physically and emotionally – and you probably feel very alone right now.
Take heart…you are not alone.
For what it’s worth, the National Family Caregivers Association (visit their website at www.thefamilycaregiver.org/about/) estimates that there are approximately 54 million people in the nation currently caring for someone in need.It’s not an easy road, and that’s why I’ve created HomeBoundResources.com.
Let's not reinvent the wheel. Together, as a community, we are the experts in collecting and sharing the most important resources, information, and help for people who are challenged by a home healthcare situation.I really do care about how caregivers and patients achieve the highest standard of living possible. To that end, I recently introduced contributing writers as part of Tammy's Think Tank Team. Everybody benefits by a little help from their friends! Look for interesting articles on Fitness, Relationship Dynamics, Mobility, Overcoming Challenges. If you have an issue that needs addressed, let us know. You'd be surprised by the creative solutions people use!
I understand that every situation is different, and good advice in one situation may not be so appropriate in another. So, please let us know what’s working and what’s not. Visit http://www.homeboundresources.com/, and explore the tips, resources and publications available.
And, if you’ve got some advice of your own on a topic that I’ve written about, please feel free to e-mail your feedback to me. This effort works best when we all help each other.
From My Heart to Yours,
Tammy
Tammy@HomeBoundResources.com
Sunday, June 14, 2009
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