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  • 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…)

  • 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...

  • 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…)

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