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Personal Care Aides working at povery levels in many states by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia Imagine working hard every day, caring for people who depend on you to help them with the most basic physical and emotional tasks. Your daily work involves helping your clie ... Read on »

Friday, August 6, 2010 by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving Here's another touchy, feely moment with my daughter. She recently sent me a random instant message, here is how our conversation went Amanda: "I now understand how frustr ... Read on »

Reduce the Risk of Falling by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving If you’re like most families, falls are one of the top things you worry about with your aging loved ones. Falls are, in fact, the “second leading cause of injury-related de ... Read on »

Thoughts on Motivation by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving Summer seems to be a time for a bit of the hot-weather-doldrums. You know what I mean: your team is working short a lot to accommodate vacations and your own head may be r ... Read on »

Selecting a Care Center by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia Loved this recent New York Times article on selecting a care community, " One Way to Judge a Nursing Home." In the article, the author talks about trying to select a nur ... Read on »

Friday, July 30, 2010 by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving Are you one to easily accept a challenge? Take on a bet? Not me. I'm pretty cautious by nature. However, when my officemate, Miss Sara Jackson threw up the "saltine crac ... Read on »

Friday, July 16, 2010 by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving Just another ah-ha moment in the life of Wendy this past week. A very unusual and tragic event in my neighborhood earlier this week. An adult son shot his father. My son ... Read on »

Friday, July 9, 2010 by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving Are you one of those people who subscribe to the philosophy of "rules are meant to be broken?" If you said yes, are you my child? Just kidding, seriously, I can not believ ... Read on »

Rose Villa getting Culture Change Right by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia Imagine my surprise when I went to meet a colleague for a tour, and walked into a room full of people. My first thought was, “Oops – wrong room!” But my colleague quickly ... Read on »

Comments by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia Thanks, Vickie Young, for sharing your comments about my last article Working as a in home care giver I see first hand what you are talking about. My relief came to work th ... Read on »

Friday, July 2, 2010 by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving I believe I have coined the phrase "trading problems." This is simply attempting to fix one problem only to discover your solution created yet another problem. Sometimes t ... Read on »

Friday, June 25, 2010 by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving I am actually feeling a little under the weather today. I make every attempt to find humor in almost any situtation. Let's be honest - there is just nothing funny about ru ... Read on »

Training: Time is Money by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving How much time are your high-value employees spending in staff training today? How much of that training is focused on the mandatory, required training? How much of that ti ... Read on »

Gail Sheehy Addresses Caregiver Stress by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving The Orange County Register's news article about author Gail Sheehy's new book, " Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence ," is right on point regarding caregiv ... Read on »

Emergency Preparedness with e-learning by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving As an owner and operator of multiple assisted living communities, one of my all-time greatest fears was an emergency situation. A fire, flood, extended power outage – any o ... Read on »

Three simple steps to optimal caregiving by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving With all the news about the increasing prevalence of families involved in caregiving activities you know one thing: You’re not alone. That may not be much help to you at ... Read on »

Where do you turn when you’re all burned out? by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alzheimer's & Dementia Google the term “Caregiver Burnout” and you’ll find over one million results. From articles to opinions to videos, advice on preventing burnout is all over the web. Clea ... Read on »

Friday, June 18, 2010 by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving Be careful what you say dad. Last weekend at my 6 year old grandson's t-ball game he went to the plate and after only a couple pitches hit a slow roller back to the pitcher ... Read on »

Friday, June 11, 2010 by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving During a discussion with a co-worker about this week's topic she said, "You haven't written about your daughter in quite awhile." That got me thinking. Why haven't I mentio ... Read on »

Caregiver Stress by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Caregiving You recognize the feelings of fatigue and not having enough time for yourself. You might even realize that you’re a little more short-tempered than usual, and you don’t hav ... Read on »

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