Northern Virginia Dementia Care Consortium
Northern Virginia Dementia Care Consortium presents the 35th Annual Caregiver’s Conference! The Young Caregiver is a vendor at this amazing virtual conference! Find out more at http://www.nvdcc.com
Golden Gloves
My Mom is my favorite boxer. Some may shy away from talking about physical altercations that occur during caregiving but it happens. I would never call my situation abuse because my Mom would have never done this if it wasn’t for dementia. My first week as a caregiver literally started off with a bang. My…
Death Talk
There are two talks we don’t want to have with our parents but both are necessary, the sex talk and the death talk. I’m in multiple caregiver support groups and a caregiver asked should I tell my loved one they are going to die. Caregivers responded no, never and one person stated I didn’t but…
Dear Tyler Perry
Mr. Perry, AARP has reported in the US the number of unpaid caregivers have increased from 43.5 million in 2015 to 53 million in 2020. The percentage of people taking care of two people have increased from 18% in 2015 to 24% in 2020. In 2014, I became a full time caregiver to my parents…
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