Eldercare Carnival’s Senior Care Stress Awareness Edition

April is Stress Awareness month and anyone who has ever provided senior care for a loved one fully understands the stress that can come with the territory.  Some crisis situations may cause extreme stress, but others are a part of a caregiver’s day to day duties.   As caregivers, we can learn to recognize stress and do all we can to deal with it in a positive way.

Here are some informative articles from others that may offer senior care givers some tools to help combat the stress they regularly deal with.

Joan T presents Encouraging Caregivers: Things you can do to encourage yourself posted at Encouraging Caregivers.

James A. Cooley presents Susan Boyle: A dream that didn’t die posted at Jamesacooley’s Blog.

Carol Bradley Bursack presents Questions About Nursing Homes Answered posted at Minding Our Elders®.

FitBuff presents Top 10 Lower Cholesterol Foods posted at FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog.

Pat Doyle presents How To Arrange Your Bedroom For Good Feng Shui posted at Feng Shui Crazy.

Jonathan Rosenfeld presents Government Report Confirms Pressure Ulcers Harm All Nursing Home Residents; Regardless Of Race, Sex or Age posted at Jonathan Rosenfeld’s Nursing Homes Abuse Blog.

Carrie L. Hill, Ph.D., writes that  If you’re a caregiver for your parent with Alzheimer’s and you feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders, consider these tips for coping with caregiver stress and burnout in Alzheimer’s Disease: Coping With Caregiver Stress and Burnout

Jennifer Jilks presents Hospitalization for seniors posted at Ontario Health Care – for those over 50.

Kim shared Ease the Stress of Caring For an Aging Parent and  Janice wrote PACE programs: An Important Senior Care Resource

That concludes this week’s carnival.  Please join us next time by submitting your blog posts here or bookmark the EldercareABC site and click on the Eldercare Carnival Tab above to submit your post.