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Member Experiences . . .

Caregiver - Encouragement
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1   Link   Alzheimer's Spouse (The)
A site devoted exclusively to the issues faced by spouses of Alzheimer patients. This is a place for information, support, understanding, and message boards filled with spouses who understand you.
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2   Link   Alzheimer Caregivers Online
AlzOnline provides state-of-the-art education, information, and support to persons caring for someone with a progressive memory problem. Faced with the reality of caring for someone with progressive memory or thinking problems, a family's life changes.
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3   Link   American Self Help Clearinghouse
A keyword-searchable database of over 1,100 national, international, and model self-help support groups for most any specific illness, disability, addiction, bereavement situation, parenting, caregiver concern, abuse, or other stressful
life situation.
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4   Link   And Thou Shalt Honor
Foundation web site for a popular PBS series with many resources for family caregivers and professionals

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5   Link   Caregivers Home Companion
Caring for our elderly can be an extremely lonely and frustrating vigil, but caregiving can also be filled with a rich sense of closeness and satisfaction from the knowledge that you are doing your utmost to help your loved one. At Caregiver’s Home, we are committed to serving you, the caregiver, with education, information, resources and support.

Free Caregivers Home Companon Guide and Caregivers Survival Guide available for download at this website!
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6   Link   Caregiver Wellness
Website for Jan Spilman, a Vancouver, B.C. Registered Clinical Counsellor, Compassion Fatigue Specialist and former coronary intensive care nurse with a Masters degree in Mental Health Education. "After eighteen years as a trauma therapist and seven years as a cardiac spouse, caring for my husband until his death from heart failure in 2004, my passion is to use wellness education to support, renew and inspire family caregivers and helping professionals."


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7   Link   Geriatric Care Management
GeriatricCareManagement.com is a personal Web site devoted to helping family caregivers of older adults determine if they need geriatric care management services and how to get the most for their time and money when hiring. Get tips on what to ask when interviewing a geriatric care manager and how to prepare for the initial assessment. For those with further questions, the site’s owner offers free e-mail consultations. If you’re ready to find a geriatric care manager, search a growing list of private practitioners.
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8   Link   Labyrinth of Caregiving - AARP & Gail Sheehy
AARP Caregiving Ambassador Gail Sheehy leads us through the Labyrinth of Caregiving, which she describes as a path of nine "turnings."

Gail, author of the groundbreaking book "Passages," traveled around the country capturing the personal stories of a handful of the more than 44 million Americans caring for adult loved ones. Each with its own take on a different phase of caregiving, these stories will be posted here weekly.
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9   Link   National Org for Empowering Caregivers
National Organization For Empowering Caregivers™ mission is to provide assistance; education, support, referrals and respite volunteers for informal family caregivers, as well as to promote public awareness about the realities of those who care for loved ones.
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10   Link   Strength for Caring
The Johnson & Johnson Caregiver Initiative is a pioneer in the emerging field of family caregiver support and StrengthForCaring.com (SFC) is the cornerstone of this important program. SFC is a comprehensive website designed to provide family caregivers with a broad range of expert content and information, an emerging on-line community, daily inspiration, and much needed support.
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11   Link   The Thoughtful Caregiver
Writings and photography and Helpful Inspirations. Free resource for encouraging support for family caregivers.
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12   Link   Caregiver Survival Institute
Dr. David and Rhonda Travland offer caregiver coaching, and sell their take on spousal caregiving: Tough and tender: handbook for the well spouse
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13   Link   In Sickness and In Health: A Place for Couples Dealing with Illness [Blog]
In Sickness and In Health: A Place for Couples Dealing with Illness
To find resources and advice, hear stories, and discover support. Whether the illness is chronic or acute, the result of disease or accident, couples can learn strategies for coping with the changes illness brings into our relationships and our worlds.
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14   Link   Caregivingly Yours
A site belonging to longtime spousal caregiver, Patrick Leer.

"...A parent caring for a child paints with more shades of dreams. An ‘adult child’ caring for a parent paints with more hues of memories. A long term spousal caregiver paints a canvas where the years spent caring dwarf the years spent sharing. ..."

“… caregiving is a CHOICE; the person you are caring for has NO choice to be ill or disabled. You will always be separated by that reality. Choice motivates and can haunt….”

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Note: For 21 years an annual supporting membership, including a subscription to Mainstay and other benefits was $25.  Recently, the WSA Board voted to raise that cost by $5 to $30 in the U.S. and $35 elsewhere in North America. Overseas, Mainstay will only be available elecronically, in the members' area. Had we kept up to inflation the cost today would be $43.50. 

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Playing the Canada Card: an American Caregiver's Experience

Playing the Canada Card:

an American Caregiver's Experience

  By CEIL SINNEX Copyright © 2009 Ceil Sinnex             

 My husband John’s disease erupted like fireworks in the afternoon of my New Year’s Eve birthday seven years ago. I went out for the afternoon and returned home to find a stranger who only looked like John, talking gibberish and tearing our house apart at the seams. The siege lasted 16 hours.I thought of survival, not of Canada. As it turned out, survival and Canada would become one and the same.
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