Caregiver stress has a way of derailing your best-laid plans. Like many people whose elderly parents fall ill, Jennifer Beard found herself catapulted into a caregiving role a couple of years ago ...

With an $80,000 grant from the Jefferson Trust, UVA professor Alisa Bahl’s clinic supports children with disruptive behavior ...

Women caregivers are more likely to report emotional stress, struggles with work-life balance and depression or anxiety compared with men, but there are resources available to help. More than 100 ...

Mindfulness seminars are one way caregivers are learning to cope with their feelings of depression, loneliness, frustration ...

Caregiving is a full-time effort that requires patience and stress management, and many caregivers are older adults who may have their own health concerns. The Family Caregiver Alliance website ...

can help alleviate caregiver stress and lessen the financial impact of caring for loved ones as they age. “Family caregivers are critical to our care-delivery system,” Wolff concluded.

but a new video streaming service helps create engagement and reduce agitation and caregivers, who are often times the spouses, need that kind of stress-reliever. Allyson’s Schrier’s husband ...

The majority of the caregivers provided assistance for more than 7 h/d (85%). Interview Based on the stress process model, an ad hoc semistructured interview was designed to investigate ...

Furthermore, caregivers often have diminished immune response which leads to frequent infections and increased risk of cancer ...

This stress is often known as “caregiver burden”. One 2017 study looked at how people with healthy pets fared compared to those caring for pets with serious diseases. It found many of those ...

Caregiver stress relief is possible The sudden loss of control over your life, the unpredictability of your parent’s needs, the struggle to find reliable support — these are the key ...