by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 14, 2020 | Resilience
Profiles in Resilience #1 Service to others. This is the life they have known and lived. He worked for 33 years as a public official. For more than a decade, he continued to work through the inconveniences of Parkinson’s disease. Always quick with a joke or a...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 8, 2020 | Caregiving
Good Habits for Caregivers & Patients #3 The list of potential self-care measures is seemingly endless. So much so, that you may be overwhelmed or think you have to do too much. You don’t. Remember, a little bit of something is better than a whole lot of...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 31, 2020 | Caregiving
Good Habits for Caregivers & Patients #2 “I am losing my hair, and I have a terrible rash. I have developed a hump on my back, I have gained 40 pounds, I can’t sleep, and I don’t even know who I am when I look in the mirror. I don’t look like myself and I don’t...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 24, 2020 | Caregiving
Good Habits for Caregivers & Patients #1 When illness visits and you don’t feel good, interactions change. When you enter the terrain of long term, chronic conditions, you don’t feel like yourself for a long time. Some of us manage with grace; some of...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 24, 2020 | Resilience
Change for Good #3 If you sense that you are overwhelmed, then this word is for you: simplify. Caregiving scenarios, corporate work mazes, financial burden…these and many other situations are rife with complexity. In the midst of so many steps and options and...
