Family Caregiving - Midnight Sun Home Care

Tips on How to Avoid Overstepping Boundaries with Senior Parents

midnightsuncare — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 14:24:46 +0000

We desire what’s best for our elderly parents. As our parents age, it is not necessarily a straightforward task to determine our role as adult children. However, if we’re not very careful, it is possible to find ourselves overstepping boundaries with senior parents and trying to parent them. Avoiding boundary issues is particularly true when […]

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How Elder Care Mediation Eases Family Caregiver Conflict

midnightsuncare — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 17:06:23 +0000

When you need to work as a team to make sure the needs of your aging parents are met, even the closest of brothers and sisters could find themselves at odds. Emotions and stress levels are, commonly, running high. Add to that your past history and family dynamics, which commonly resurface during stressful times, and […]

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Are You Experiencing Caregiver Dread? These Tips Can Help

midnightsuncare — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 12:17:47 +0000

What are your first thoughts as soon as you wake up in the morning? Are you looking forward to what your day holds, or would you like to crawl back beneath the covers and remain there? If you’re feeling more caregiver dread than delight as you consider your responsibilities for the day, you are not […]

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When Lucidity Returns in the End Stages of Dementia and What It’s Teaching Us

midnightsuncare — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 14:01:31 +0000

Even as memory loss and confusion escalate throughout the progression of dementia, there is an interesting and pleasant reprieve that often occurs. Previously termed “terminal lucidity,” it’s more frequently known as “paradoxical lucidity.” It signifies an unexpected, temporary return of clarity to a nearly pre-dementia state of mind during the end stages of dementia. During […]

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Work-Life Balance for Caregivers: Post-Pandemic Predictions

midnightsuncare — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:07:26 +0000

If there’s one particular positive after-effect regarding the pandemic, it’s the awareness generated for the plight of family caregivers. Finding a post-pandemic work-life balance will be without question an incredible challenge for people taking care of an older relative. As Lindsay Jurist-Rosner, CEO of Wellthy, explains, “Caregiving went from a silent struggle to being in […]

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Caring for Aging Parents SOS: Family Caregiver Therapy

midnightsuncare — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:25:35 +0000

There are specific milestones we might encounter in our lives that, while not automatically negative, are known stressors. Losing a job. Starting a brand new job. Getting divorced. Getting married. And one that we in the home care industry are especially mindful of: the mental and physical effect on family members who are caring for […]

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Tips for First-Time Caregivers

midnightsuncare — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:13:30 +0000

It might have come altogether out of nowhere: an unanticipated fall that caused a fractured hip and the need for Mom to have assistance to stay at home. Or, it may have been building up over the years, such as through the incremental and slow progression of dementia. Regardless of the circumstances, you’ve now found […]

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Aging With Dignity: Tips for Caregivers

midnightsuncare — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 15:19:13 +0000

It’s easy to get swept up in the day-to-day tasks of caregiving for an older adult you love. There is so much to be done, and often it’s just much easier and a lot more efficient to do it all on your own, letting a senior loved one relax. After all, our elders have taken […]

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Learn to Let Go of Family Caregiver Guilt

midnightsuncare — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 17:52:57 +0000

Family care providers give so much of themselves to attend to their loved ones, often surrendering their own desires and needs in the process. It seems normal to assume then that caretakers would feel good about themselves, rich in self-esteem and sense of purpose. However, the opposite is often true, with many people experiencing family […]

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Wrongly Accused? How to Respond When Dementia Induces These Delusions

midnightsuncare — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:44:42 +0000

It can come seemingly out of thin air: you place your loved one’s favorite tuna sandwich in front of her – light on the mayo, no onions – something which usually brings her enjoyment. But this time, she shoves the plate away and does not want to take a bite, insisting that you’ve poisoned the […]

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