Caring Central

Hello and welcome to Caring Central!  This is a place where  you can look for advice or support, share your experiences, ask questions, vent, brag, ramble and hopefully have a laugh or two!  This group is for anything and everything...

My mother is in a nursing home and is only 66 years old. She has rumatoid artheritis and suffers from a stroke and also has mental illness. I am the only child and bascially all the family she has.. Sometimes when she gets in a depression she can be real hatful towards me and say bad things...

I suspect my mother has dementia.  I have always been the one she talks to, now, I feel like that she thinks I murdered somebody.  This is only a feeling.  There are three children, but, I feel like my brother and sister are in denial.  They don't talk to her that much...

Care giving is tough.  We're in a particularly stressful time right now in my own family and sometimes it does me so much good to just take a second out to have fun!  So here is how my little game works. 

I will start out with the letter...

My Dad is now 80 years old. My husband and moved back to the Midwest to be closer to both of our Dads and to help them out as they get older. My Mom passed away 10 years ago, and Dad has been a challenge ever since. He now has dementia and some symptoms of Alzheimer's...

Is it just me, or does anyone else feel sometimes like the medical community just doesn't care?  Or maybe it's that they don't trust that what you're saying is true?

I'm a smart girl and can rationalize all day long that there are so many competing priorities for doctors and their staff...

I'm so glad I've found this place-- I hope I can get some help with my own situation...

About a year and a half ago, I had to very suddenly move my Mom from Fl back here to IN, and eventually put her in a an assissted living facility...

My mom, 75 yrs this past August.  Had a pretty serious stroke on May 26th.  She had been off of cumadin preparing for shoulder replacement surgery.  I am wondering if anyone here knows more details about home healthcare and becoming one...

My parents are 81 and 93 yrs.old and my father is home-bound. My mother (81)  still insists on being the only person to care for him and will accept no help at all. She has some behavioral problems and is also what I consider abusive to him...

I recently had the good fortune of seeing my 83 year old father's feet.  Whoa! 

I should get on my hands and knees with gardening tools to clean them up but I think this job feels over my head.   Has anyone ever taken their elderly parent to the corner nail salon...

I am a Caregiver to my Aunt who has MS and had a Stroke. I cannot get her a Motorized Wheelchair through spinlife even with Insurance and a Dr. script and all the necessary paperwork? The woman that works there apparently dont care about people with disabilities...

We were just visiting my grandparents this weekend and they let us know that someone in their church let folks know that in order to receive the federal rebate funds, they had to file a tax return to get it, even if they owe no taxes...

We're mothers/fathers, spouses, children, caregivers, employees, volunteers...  no wonder according to this recent news article, Americans are sleepier than ever!  http://www.caring.com/news/americans-sleepier-than-ever

Do you have any tricks...

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We're having trouble finding a reputable skilled nursing home in the South Bay that will take my father who is a paraplegic.  We've researched many of them and their deficiencies and the few that we've found have turned us down because they...

Have you ever promised your parent or loved one that you'd never put them in a long-term care facility, such as assisted living or a nursing home?  A long time ago, I made that promise to my mind and have since had to take it back...

To Maggiegal and all those responding to Bill1161,  my story is the same as your's Maggiegal,  responsible for 2 parents since December of 1999. I have seen it all, at least I think so, however the story of caregiving for parents is always full of surprises...

My mother, who is entering the advanced stages of Huntington's Disease, needs full-time care but not yet ready for a nursing home. I recently had to take a leave of absence from work because I discovered that Mom doesn't qualify for local in-home health...

I like to travel to Hawaii for R & R for 8-10 days.  My 86 yo mother legally blind (macular degeneration) , lives in an assisted living facility.    Her mind for 86 years old is very sharp. 

When I mention going to Hawaii...

Does anyone have information on a bill before congress to pay caregivers a lump sum, if they have been a caregiver for 60 months or more?