As a junior member of the Sandwich Generation, I’ve been my mother’s primary caregiver for the last several years, a responsibility passed on to me when my brother and his wife retired to Phoenix. A changing of the guard, so to speak, because they’d spent over 20 years juggling full...
Daniel Craig is phenomenal inNo Time To Die(2021). While he is always a strong actor, he has also grown into a bona fide movie star too. Even when going through the motions inSpectre(2015) he was good, but inNo Time To Die(2021), he blows the doors off. While he does look too o...
As Fishel puts it “every person will eventually need care or be a caregiver, our ageist, ablest, individualistic society expects each person or family to manage care on their own despite more cries for government and community support.” facingthewindfilm.com About the filmmaker – Deirdre ...
She’s a lonely, a mom 100% of her waking hours since a child of this age needs constant attention. She’s the sole caregiver of her son and she has no breathing room. It soon goes in the way of her career. Because she’s less available, she gets less contracts. This means less ...
After an angry mob beats and then burns three undergraduate students in a Nigerian border town and the killings are widely shared on social media, the powerful father of one victim hires Taiwo to figure out what really happened. The police can’t find a motive for the murders, but Taiwo (...
that left me as the only caregiver in sight. I don’t like it—under different circumstances I’d have taken off back to England months ago—but I can’t just abandon a disabled woman to fend for herself. I can’t go anywhere until I know she’s safe, with a roof over her head ...
After Pam White is diagnosed at age 61 with early-onset Alzheimer's, life begins to change, slowly but irrevocably, for Pam and everyone around her. Her husband grapples with his role as it evolves from primary partner to primary caregiver. Pam's adult children find ways to show their ...
The specific aims of this study were: (i) to explore the differences on QoL according to caregiver’s contextual variables; (ii) to find the variables that contributed to QoL; and (iii) to analyze the moderating role of self-care in the relationship between COVID-19 traumatic stress/distres...
In addition, the depressive emotion of people with disability can become a factor that decreases the QoL of the caregiver [8]. This has negative consequences for the care of people with disability and their families, and it is necessary to identify interventions that can improve and restore the...
Saskia has put her life on hold to be caregiver for her twin, Jenny, who has been severely injured in an accident. The intersection of the stories, says Steven Beattie in the Quill and Quire, “comes as a shock.” (Claire) The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus by Allan Gurganus: A...