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TakingCareofGrandma.com Turns 2!

By Rachel / May 1, 2019

Today, I am celebrating because TakingCareofGrandma has been live for TWO years! During the entire month of May, we will be celebrating the TCG blogiversary and invading timelines and twitter feeds with real life experiences of family caregivers. (more…)
Managing Healthcare/Quality of Life/Uncategorized

PRESENTING.. The Long Term Care Calculator!

By Rachel / July 19, 2019

I created this calculator long ago before I brought in her Sidekicks to help me see how much it would cost. Instead of letting it collect dust, I made some tweaks so you can use it to see how much care will cost for your...
Caregiving Like a Boss/Uncategorized

NOW PREMIERING: Taking Care of Grandma Rap

By Rachel / June 7, 2019

I know you've been waiting to see it, because I've been telling everyone about it for a month, so I won't delay any longer... Without further ado............. I present to you............ the Taking Care of Grandma Rap! https://youtu.be/72zMu59iquU Now Mike Jones isn't the only rapper...
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TCG Turns 2: Welcome to the Party!

By Rachel / May 23, 2019

Thank you for blessing us with your presence here at TakingCareofGrandma.com! Welcome to the celebration! Caregiving, even though it is a universal human experience, is not something that our society typically celebrates. Instead of making a big deal out of it, often the challenges and...
Caregiving Like a Boss/Uncategorized

Head Caregiver in Charge: The Complete Handbook

By Rachel / March 16, 2019

Coordinating care for an aging loved one can feel like a never ending spiral of appointments, paperwork, and to-do lists. Managing it all can feel overwhelming at times. There's good news! Nobody ever said you have to do it all by yourself. The Head Caregiver...
Coping with Caregiving/Uncategorized

Stressed Out? You need the Making a Break Project

By Rachel / January 17, 2019

REPEAT AFTER ME: Respite is not a program. Okay, respite is not *just* a program. Many families don't qualify for formal respite due to eligibility criteria. Others just don't know about all the different ways you can create space in your schedule and find resources...
Caregiving Like a Boss/Uncategorized

Join Me in our Caregiving Co-op!

By Rachel / January 10, 2019

Co-ops are often considered a thing of the past. When you think about co-ops, you often travel back to a friendlier time, picturing tight chains of small businesses, intentional communities and community gardens of a past generation. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the “new...
Coping with Caregiving

Top 10 Reasons Caregiving is Good for You

By Rachel / May 1, 2017

Over the past two years, I have been learning to balance the role of a family caregiver. As the sole living relative to my grandmother, who was an only child (like myself), the responsibility of her care falls completely on me.While it is true that...
Blogiversary/Coping with Caregiving/Uncategorized

What’s your day that lives in infamy? *GIVEAWAY ALERT*

By Rachel / May 10, 2019

Dates can hold a lot of weight for us. They are tangible reminders of past turning points, wins, traumas and losses. My day that lives in infamy is 5/23/2015. That was the day that unfolded into the events that led to me becoming my grandma's...
Coping with Caregiving/Uncategorized

Rachel’s Caregiving Story Featured on MemoryWell

By Rachel / April 23, 2019

As I look forward to my blogiversary, I find myself thinking a lot about the day I became a caregiver and all of the crazy events that have transpired as we have stumbled and steadied ourselves along life's path leading up to now. My "caregiversary"...
Blogiversary/Coping with Caregiving/Uncategorized

One Year of Blogging: Challenges

By Rachel / May 16, 2018

Today, in honor of TakingCareofGrandma.com’s One Year Blogiversary, we are looking back at the challenges I've ran into over my past year of caregiving and blogging. The issues I have struggled with the most are managing work and life balance, dealing with decline, and working...

Managing Healthcare/Quality of Life/Uncategorized

PRESENTING.. The Long Term Care Calculator!

By Rachel / July 19, 2019

I created this calculator long ago before I brought in her Sidekicks to help me see how much it would cost. Instead of letting it collect dust, I made some tweaks so you can use it to see how much care will cost for your...
Caregiving Like a Boss/Uncategorized

NOW PREMIERING: Taking Care of Grandma Rap

By Rachel / June 7, 2019

I know you've been waiting to see it, because I've been telling everyone about it for a month, so I won't delay any longer... Without further ado............. I present to you............ the Taking Care of Grandma Rap! https://youtu.be/72zMu59iquU Now Mike Jones isn't the only rapper...
Blogiversary/Coping with Caregiving/Uncategorized

TCG Turns 2: Welcome to the Party!

By Rachel / May 23, 2019

Thank you for blessing us with your presence here at TakingCareofGrandma.com! Welcome to the celebration! Caregiving, even though it is a universal human experience, is not something that our society typically celebrates. Instead of making a big deal out of it, often the challenges and...
Blogiversary/Coping with Caregiving/Uncategorized

TakingCareofGrandma.com Turns 2!

By Rachel / May 1, 2019

Today, I am celebrating because TakingCareofGrandma has been live for TWO years! During the entire month of May, we will be celebrating the TCG blogiversary and invading timelines and twitter feeds with real life experiences of family caregivers. (more…)
Caregiving Like a Boss/Uncategorized

Head Caregiver in Charge: The Complete Handbook

By Rachel / March 16, 2019

Coordinating care for an aging loved one can feel like a never ending spiral of appointments, paperwork, and to-do lists. Managing it all can feel overwhelming at times. There's good news! Nobody ever said you have to do it all by yourself. The Head Caregiver...
Coping with Caregiving/Uncategorized

Stressed Out? You need the Making a Break Project

By Rachel / January 17, 2019

REPEAT AFTER ME: Respite is not a program. Okay, respite is not *just* a program. Many families don't qualify for formal respite due to eligibility criteria. Others just don't know about all the different ways you can create space in your schedule and find resources...
Caregiving Like a Boss/Uncategorized

Join Me in our Caregiving Co-op!

By Rachel / January 10, 2019

Co-ops are often considered a thing of the past. When you think about co-ops, you often travel back to a friendlier time, picturing tight chains of small businesses, intentional communities and community gardens of a past generation. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the “new...
Coping with Caregiving

Top 10 Reasons Caregiving is Good for You

By Rachel / May 1, 2017

Over the past two years, I have been learning to balance the role of a family caregiver. As the sole living relative to my grandmother, who was an only child (like myself), the responsibility of her care falls completely on me.While it is true that...
Caregiving Like a Boss/Uncategorized

My relentless pursuit for the others – EXCLUSIVE feature on AlzAuthors.com!

By Rachel / July 12, 2019

I met this amazing group of ladies at the National Caregiving Conference. They call themselves the AlzAuthors. They are six daughters who have experienced the loss of a loved one with dementia and chose to write about their personal stories to help others along their...
Caregiving Like a Boss

8 Ways to Make Money While Entrenched in Caregiving

By Rachel / July 8, 2019

When you’re a caregiver, sometimes it means you have to scale back on gainful employment or even take it off your plate altogether. It can be hard to bring in the money you need to support yourself. It’s no fun being broke or unemployed. But all hope...
Coping with Caregiving/Uncategorized

Caregiving & Dating – A Special Edition #latenite #carechat

By Rachel / July 5, 2019

Dating and relationships is not a topic you see me write about much here at TakingCareofGrandma.com. (more…)