“A loved one with dementia can get confused about the season, age, location and other details,” explains Moraima Castañeda, chief program officer for Los Angeles-based Center for Caregiver Advancement. For many people, the knee-jerk reaction to this kind of confusion is to set the re...
and her mother lives in California. For the past year and a half Harris has gone to Los Angeles every other month to take care of her mother. Flora Harris takes care of her husband James who’s 91 and has Alzheimer’s disease. They live in their own home and caregiver comes to help...
California lost over 2.6 million jobs early on in the pandemic before gaining 692,400 jobs in May and June 2020. People of color were disproportionately affected.Homicides, shootings and car thefts spiked, while robberies, rapes and lesser property crimes dropped; robberies declined by 17%, and ...
Besides the caregiver, I was there while Eric was at work. The phone seemed to ring every fifteen minutes, and Hospice workers were in and out — for interviews, to bathe Jane, and to help in any way they could. They said this was the first time they’d had two people together on ...
Bringing home aterminally ill loved onecan be an emotionally charged time in both the caregiver’s life and the final days of the patient. Coming home can bring a great deal of peace and comfort to a person looking at the end of their life. Even though you may be working through a diz...