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Family Caregiver Holiday Stress Reliever - Preparing for the Doctor Visit doctors family caregivers holidays Nov 14, 2022

 

Many families find themselves taking their loved ones to the doctor during the busy holiday season. The stress of the holidays can make an already difficult situation even harder. However,...

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Family caregiver tip: 5 Steps To Help Your Loved One’s Doctor Lower Your Holiday Stress - Part 2 doctors family caregivers holidays Nov 14, 2022

The holidays can be a difficult time for family caregivers.

When you are the primary caregiver for a loved one, it can be easy to forget about taking care of yourself.

This holiday season, make...

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Family caregiver tip: 5 Steps to Help Your Loved One’s Doctor Lower Your Holiday Stress - Part 1 doctors family caregivers holidays Nov 11, 2022

The holidays can be a difficult time for family caregivers.

When you are the primary caregiver for a loved one, it can be easy to forget about taking care of yourself.

This holiday season, make...

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Family Caregivers - Why the Holidays May Be Bad for Your Health doctors family caregivers holidays Oct 31, 2022

Is this your story? 

“Oh no! The holidays are here already!

Commercials, ads, Amazon feeds, emails flooding my inbox...how can I forget?

I’m not ready yet. Too much going on....

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"It Depends" and why CaringEnd? doctors family caregivers Aug 23, 2022

"It Depends"

Some time ago, I was caring for a 94-year-old gentleman. An active senior, he lived alone in his small home, doing most everything for himself. Basic self-care tasks like eating,...

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3 tips - You CAN overcome your patient's reluctance to have advance care planning conversations doctors Jan 17, 2022

 

For physicians, tight schedules, demanding workloads, and lack of training are just a few barriers to starting end-of-life advance care planning conversations with our patients. An even more...

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Talking about End-of-Life Care & Revitalizing Clinical Practice doctors Mar 16, 2021

Vamshi Gunukula of DirectShifts, a physician staffing company, interviewed me on 3/4/21. We discuss a variety of issues that primary care doctors face, from end-of-life advance care planning to...

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