Caregiver Resource Links - BLOGs

There are 40 resource links in this category.
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1. Abledbody.com
   Abledbody.com is a consumer site with information and tips on assistive technology and innovations for people with disabilities and their families and employers; the site features news, tips, expert opinions, blogs and other resources.
   
2. Acoustic Neuroma Association
   They provide information and support to persons diagnosed with or treated for acoustic neuroma and other benign tumors of the cranial nerves. They publish a quarterly newsletter and distribute patient information booklets, have local support groups and a website for patient information and discussion.
   
3. Aging Care - Connecting People Caring for Elderly Parents
   AgingCare.com is an online community that connects people caring for elderly parents to other caregivers, personalized information, and local resources. Many resources that exist to determine how caregivers can best take advantage of programs, services and products that will enhance their lives and those for whom they provide care.
   
4. Aging in Place Technology Watch
   Aging in Place Technology Watch, a market research firm that provides thought leadership, analysis and guidance about technologies and related services that enable boomers and seniors to remain longer in their home of choice.
   
5. Aging Parent Blog
   An aging parent care blog by Carolyn Rosenblatt at Forbes magazine. Carolyn relates her experiences as caregiver on subjects such as How To Handle Aging Parents' Pets, 10 Ways To Persuade A Parent To Get Help and How To Get Mom Or Dad To Stop Driving
   
6. American Academy of Neurology
   
   
7. As Our Parents Age Timely Topics for Adult Children
   As Our Parents Age (blog) is an effort record the experiences of loving and living with aging parents, but it is also a vehicle to help the authors husband and her understand and learn more about aging parent care giving. She highlights interesting issues, identifying high quality web resources, and sharing memories. Other posts are on topics that her husband and her would have liked to know more about at the beginning of their foray into the aging child – aging parent phase of life.
   
8. Becky Williamson
   Fitness tips, workout ideas, and nutrition nuggets to make mid-life the best part of your life
   
9. Blooming in Midlife
   Blooming in Midlife is a humorous look at midlife experiences and wisdom.
   
10. Boomer Authority
    Boomer Authority™ is a professional association for experts and organizations that specialize in the 50+ Baby Boomer demographic. The 46-64 Boomer Initiative™ is a global ecosystem of web destinations, social networking communities, and social tools to help Baby Boomers spark conversations, solve problems and discover new solutions.
    
11. Caregiver Cottage (The)
    An interactive blog site providing a forum for discussion, coaching, consulting and resources for family and professional caregivers of older adults.
    
12. Caregiverlist
    Caregiverlist.com answers all the questions both Adult Children and Seniors ask when they need a solution for their care needs. Caregiverlist.com allows individuals to share their caregiving experiences with others and to learn about the various care options, along with the costs for each, so they can best choose the road they would like to take. It also offers caregiving career education and connections to senior care employers for those seeking to work as a caregiver, as staffing needs are an on-going industry challenge.
    
13. CaregiverVillage.com
    Caregiver Village is a virtual community that is filled with family caregivers caring for people with all kinds of problems. The hard work of family caregivers is celebrated. Tips, suggestions and tools to reduce the stress of caregiving abound in the Village. Even more importantly, caregivers share their stories through journaling and in group discussions, giving each other help with problems, support and encouragement. If you’re like a lot of family caregivers you might be feeling stressed, overworked, overscheduled, exhausted and lonely. You might feel like you’re all alone, doing a job that’s just too big, with no one cheering you on. You’re probably getting a lot of second-guessing but not much support from your family. You might be feeling like it’s just too hard. Have you ever done something really, really hard – for fun? Have you trained for a marathon, a century bike ride, a hike up a mountain? If you’ve ever done this you probably remember feeling exhausted many times during training and the event. BUT – here’s the big difference – you were doing it by choice. You were in control. Imagine the difference between running a marathon by choice and running 26 miles because someone is forcing you to do it. The big difference is in how you experience the stress. Running a marathon – or doing anything else that’s really, really challenging – is stressful. But when you do it by choice - when you’re in control - it makes all the difference in the world. Your body interprets the stress as a good thing. You feel exhausted – but like you’ve achieved something BIG. Cara, the care giver on the Caregiver Village website If you’re doing something this challenging because you feel forced to do it the negative stress can make you sick. You’re at risk for all kinds of illness, including stroke and early death, just from the negative stress. The work of a caregiver is hard. It’s exhausting much of the time. You don’t earn a medal for doing it – you should, by the way – but you’re also doing something that’s an even greater achievement than completing a marathon. You’re giving of yourself: your time, your energy, your work. And you’re doing it selflessly.
    
14. Caregiving BLOG.com
    A BLOG dedicated to many topics related to caregiving
    
15. Carepages (The)
    Free patient blogs that connect friends and family during a health challenge
    
16. Caringwise
    CaringWise is a web and mobile-enabled platform designed to alleviate stress placed on the family caregiver by organizing all the information, communication and coordination that comes with caring for loved ones with complex medical conditions.
    
17. Desperate Caregivers of Aging Parents
    Desperate Caregivers of Aging Parents blog (Inside Aging Parent Care) provide insights, personal stories, links to books concerning care giving, discussions on topics such as end of life, caregiver attitude, caregiver confusion, coping with dying and important and helpful caregiver resources. The blog is the creation of Carol Leavenworth, William Shanks and Judi Leavenworth.
    
18. Disability Resource Exchange
    
    
19. eCare Diary
    eCareDiary.com helps you organize with a free online calendar to help you organize appointments, medication schedules, legal documents and all your care scheduling needs, a set of online tools designed to make coordination of care and sharing of information easy amongst family members and other caregivers and a Search Engine to find a list of certified care services in your local area. Blogs and articles on caregiving are available.
    
20. Embracing Life – Women ^50
    Blog about positive possibilities and actualities for women over 50. Life is attitude, opportunities, and passion..
    
21. Financial Planning for Today's Woman
    A discussion of current economic news, written by and for women with an unbiased point of view.
    
22. Funeral Consumers Alliance
    Their site has blogs and resources for consumers to research funeral planning.
    
23. GriefNet
    An Internet community for persons dealing with grief, death and major loss. Several support groups are available.
    
24. Hope through the Eyes of Love BLOG
    A memoir. Hope through the Eyes of Love - Life and Marriage in the Face of a Brain Tumor. The passion is to share this story of hope and inspiration with other survivors and caregivers.
    
25. Huffington Post - Aging Issues
    A blog by on The Huffington Post written by Lynn Casteel Harper who is an Ordained Baptist minister and retirement community chaplain. Lynn challenges the prevailing attitudes about aging and elders.
    
26. Intent.com
    Intent.com features a community of members, blogs from top wellness experts and online content relating to personal, social, global and spiritual wellness.
    
27. Medical Cost Advocate
    Helps caregivers and their loved ones reduce their medical costs by validating billing accuracy and negotiating medical bills.  They can negotiate a better price before you have a procedure or reduce your medical bills after services are performed.  They will negotiate your bills regardless of the insurance plan you have -- POS, PPO, high deductible, HSA, HMO, etc.      
    
28. MidLife Bloggers
    MidLifeBloggers offers provocative posts (prose, poetry and visual arts) on issues experienced in this period in our lives .
    
29. Minding Our Elders
    Carol Bradley Bursack's book, "Minding our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories", is a reminder you aren't alone. The book was written to support the work of family caregivers. Her website and Minding Our Elders BLOG give caregivers further understanding of the caregiver role.
    
30. Modern Health Talk about technologies for home healthcare
    Modern Health Talk is a new online community about low- and high-tech solutions for home health care, disabilities, and aging in place.
    
31. National Association of Baby Boomer Women
    The National Association of Baby Boomer Women is the only assocation devoted to addressing issues concerning 38 million of the healthiest, wealthiest, and best educated generation of women to ever hit midlife, baby boomer women.
    
32. New Old Age from The New York Times
    A blog by The New York Times with articles about caring and coping. Examples include: Found: Doctors Who Take Medicare and End-of-Life Care: A Portrait
    
33. Parent Your Parents
    The information on this site provides help in navigating through the difficult discussions, making tough decisions and encouraging you to plan for the challenges you and your aging parents may face. You may document your specific wishes, vital health information and important decisions, and make this information readily available to your family.
    
34. Rob Cares
    A Caregiver Supporting Caregivers. The key topics covered in Rob's blog are: caregiver support; communications; perception of caregivers; pets as therapy and stress relief. Rob is a caregiver to 2 time cancer survivor. In August 2011 he wrote a book about being a Caregiver. His goal is to help others--especially Caregivers.
    
35. SleepEducation.com
    The American Academy of Sleep Medicine provides the facts about sleep, sleep disorders, treatments and services. The Web site includes an interactive online discussion forum where visitors can post questions and responses.
    
36. Snap for Seniors
    SNAPforSeniors provides local care information and resources for seniors. Search for housing, care managers search the BLOG topics.
    
37. The Intentional Caregiver
    The Intentional Caregiver site provides support for caregivers of aging loved ones. Shelley Webb, RN offers caregiver services, products, a blog and resources. She has more than 30 years of service as a Registered Nurse, RN Case Manager, Geriatric Care Manager and caregiver to her father, she has “been there and done that” both personally and professionally. An “overnight” caregiver to her father, her priorities instantly changed and so did her workplace. As “The Intentional Caregiver” and President of The Eldercare Support Groups, Shelley and her network of experts have become the definitive source for educational materials, encouragement and successful strategies to enable the caregiver to create an easier, less stressful and even more rewarding role. Currently a consultant, coach and advisor to caregivers world-wide, she is also a volunteer advocacy ambassador for the Alzheimer’s Association, a panel expert at ShareCare.com (a new online health and wellness platform created by Dr. Mehmet Oz, and Jeff Arnold – founder of WebMD), as well as a speaker, and an expert writer for several on-line “boomer”, aging and caregiving resources.
    
38. The Working Caregiver
    The Working Caregiver is a blog by Susan Avello. She "walks you through work / life issues while sharing her own". Susan is a wife, mother of a 20 year old daughter, mama of two dogs, and author of two books. She is V.P. / Partner of AgingInfoUSA in Chicago which directly supports employee caregivers, HR and Executive Management by implementing creative approaches in education, resources and training in regard to eldercare and family caregiving work/life challenges. Previously she worked as an Assistant Activities Directors where she became aware that it was the family caregivers who were in need of education on trusted resources available to assist their elderly loved ones. She spent 3 years researching advanced technology for Alzheimer’s Patients and their caregivers and for four years headed up the Portable PERS Device Division of a security company before moving to Illinois.
    
39. Treatment Diaries
    Treatment Diaries is a social network for people just like you who are living with or caring for someone with a chronic illness. This community is a supportive sounding board; they share your experiences, they offer advice … they care. Share.Connect.Inspire! A comforting place for people just like you; journal your experiences and express your feelings privately or with others. A place to heal. This growing community is a place for ALL those in need of a sounding board for emotional, physical and general support needs, including those experiences which come from living with a chronic illness. Connect across more than 1,400 illnesses, including rare conditions, with people just like you; caregivers, family members and advocates. Receive encouragement, learn from others, be inspired and never feel alone.
    
40. U.S. Veterans Network
    The US Veterans Network was established for the purpose of helping local veterans with employment.