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Three Sweet Gifts for Elders and Their Caregivers
Now that the wild flurry of December holidays is over, I’m settling back into a more relaxed relationship with the subject of gift-giving. From the safe vantage point of mid-January, I view my family’s...
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Joyous Paradox Receives a Recommendation
One of my joys here at the Joyous Paradox blog is connecting with other people who share their stories of offering and receiving care. Last month, I shared blogger Beth Stilborn’s article on “Reading...
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Infographic on Family Changes and the “Sandwich Generation”
Editor’s note: Thanks to Griswold Home Care for this enlightening look at multiple generations growing up and growing older in our families. Griswold Home CareFiled under: Aging and Elders, Caregiver...
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Self-Care Diary: Friday, 11/22/2013
This is Day Five of my experimental series, Self-Care Diary. For seven days, I’m sharing the things I’m doing to maintain my health and well-being. Then, at the end of the week, I’ll offer some...
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Demystifying Home Care
Editor’s Note: The following essay began as a guest post for OpenPlacement, a company that links seniors and their families with providers of senior housing and home care services. In writing this...
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The Anatomy of Breathing
Movement Modalities: Dance, Housework, Breathing If dance is the poetry of motion, then writing about dance can be a way of entering our embodied experience more fully, the way a poet enters each word...
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