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How to Make Amends Through Caregiving
You might have a huge fight with your mother or a few choice words for your brother when you last spoke to each other. Resentment, regret and tension builds up over time, but suddenly tragedy [...]
Don’t Let Past Resentment Hinder Caregiving Present
Caregiving can be tough, especially when you’re unprepared or your senior or disabled loved one is resistant to care. However, it can be just as difficult if you let the past control your care giving [...]
Don’t Burden Your Caregiver
Often times caregivers are commended by others for giving up a normal life to take care of their disabled or elderly loved one, but there is actually another narrative not often discussed. While the caregiver [...]
Disability Safety: Keeping Your Home Secure
Being disabled or elderly can often make it difficult to navigate around your own home. Accessibility and mobility become difficult, and you become prone to more accidents in your bathroom, on the stairs or even [...]
Know the Signs of Elder Abuse
Finding a caregiver that you can trust to properly care for your loved one can be difficult, but once you do, you can feel your mind be at ease. However, it is much more nerve-wracking [...]
How Millennials Can Be Proper Caregivers
According to AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving, about 25 percent of U.S. caregivers fall between the age of 18 and 34. However, many of them have little to no experience with serious illness, [...]
How to Fight Cognitive Decline
Alzheimer’s and dementia can be scary to a spouse or loved one, especially when they are unprepared. One is more likely to develop these diseases if their thinking and memory is on the decline, especially [...]
How to Deal with Caregiving Hopelessness
You never really see it coming and then it happens. Your spouse or loved one has a tragic accident and is now physically disabled. You go through the difficulties together of trying to relearn navigating [...]
How NOT to hire an In-Home Caregiver for your Loved One
Being a caregiver for a loved one can be an incredibly stressful experience. If you’ve finally reached the point in your journey, when you can no longer physically and mentally meet the demands of caregiving, [...]
How to Deal with Disability Discrimination in the Workplace
Though there are laws in place to protect disabled workers from discrimination in the workplace, the behavior itself is often overt that it’s difficult to prove. In some cases, subtle discrimination comes in the form [...]
3 Surprising Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease
Memory loss can be a distressing side effect of aging. But unlike Hollywood often portrays, mild memory loss is not the only impairment associated with Alzheimer’s. There are typically several, lesser known signs that can [...]
Navigating College with a Mobile Disability
College can be a frightening experience for any incoming freshman. However, the prospect of moving away from the safety of your home can be even more intimidating if you suffer from a mobile disability or [...]
GPE’s Education Goals In 2020
The Disabilities Education Act clearly states that children with disabilities have the right to a free and appropriate education, meaning it should be of no cost to the family and that educational services must be [...]
Children With Disabilities Excluded from Education
People with disabilities face several everyday struggles; there’s no doubt about that. However, there is so much more to their struggle than not being able to climb the stairs in their own homes or the [...]
Six Struggles People With Disabilities Face
You may think you understand how a disabled person feels, but chances are that you don’t (unless you yourself are handicapped). Sure, you know they may struggle with accessibility in bathrooms. You may even feel [...]
Assistive Technology for Kids, Adults and Elders
Technology rules our society. It is the very foundation that allows us to thrive and continue to find new ways to make living a whole lot easier. Assistive technology is the type of technology that [...]
Strengthen Your Body With Aqua Therapy
Exercising can be very helpful to your physical and mental health, but for someone who is physically disabled, it can be a lifesaver. The buoyancy in water eliminates the effects of gravity on the body, [...]
Dating With A Disability
Your mind is racing with doubts and what ifs. What if people see my profile picture of me in a wheelchair and no one messages me? What if I just don’t mention my disability, but [...]
Why You Should Join An Online Disability Support Group
Having a disability can be difficult, but you’re not alone. Often times, disabled people may find it hard to relay their problems to friends and loved ones who may not understand what you’re going through. [...]
Eating Healthy Reduces Risk of Dementia
Dementia and Alzheimer’s are both neurodegenerative diseases that cause progressive damage to cognitive functioning, which cause confusion and memory loss. Although there are no cures to these diseases and they cannot be completely prevented, there [...]
How to Stay Active With A Disability
Living a healthy lifestyle is important for everyone. It’s important to eat healthy, stay active and relax and have down time in order to ensure great physical and mental health. Often times, people with disabilities [...]
5 Tips On How to Deal With A Parent With Dementia or Alzheimer’s
You saw the signs, or maybe you didn’t, but either way, it’s here. You don’t realize that it’s one of your biggest fears until it happens: they’re no longer themselves, or worse, they can’t remember [...]
The Other Side of the Bathroom Debate
There is no shortage of opinions when it comes to laws concerning who should or shouldn’t be allowed to enter public restrooms. Though both sides of the debate each offer compelling arguments, there is one [...]
When Is It Time to Consider a Nursing Home?
The dreaded day has finally arrived. You were distracted by simultaneously finishing up a late work project, trying to cook dinner, and pick out your dad’s clothes, when suddenly you notice the front door is [...]
Dealing with an Unexpected Disability
Life as you know it has just changed. Today started off relatively normal. You went for your usual morning run. You arrived at work on time, and managed to put in a solid 8 hours [...]