Caregiving Stories

There are some caregiving lessons you don’t learn from a handbook. You learn them from the moments you wish you could go back and change. When I worked in senior living, there was a woman who was showing signs that she needed more support than she was receiving. I’ve seen this happen more than once….

When I worked in memory care, there was a gentleman who had always enjoyed sitting on his back porch with a beer. It was part of his routine—something familiar, comfortable, and very much a part of the life he had always known. As his dementia progressed, drinking regular beer wasn’t necessarily the best option anymore….