#caregivers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #caregivers, aggregated by home.social.
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New research this year found that 8 weeks of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduced caregiver burnout and improved care quality in dementia settings. Mindfulness isn't a luxury — it's a lifeline for the people holding everyone else up. When caregivers are drowning, the people they care for drown too. Presence isn't a bonus. It's a necessity.
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#healthcare #HaitianImmigrants #TrumpRegime #caregivers
"US families, healthcare providers under strain after Trump crackdown on Haitian immigrants
'These are among the most difficult positions to fill,' Jawonio's CEO, Randi Rios-Castro, told Reuters in response to emailed questions.
'This has never been just an immigration issue,' she wrote of the decision to end TPS. 'It is a healthcare workforce issue for us and our country.'
Weeks before TPS was set to expire, Emmett Reed, CEO of the Florida Health Care Association, sent a letter, opens new tab to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin urging him to consider an exemption for long-term caregivers.
'Florida is home to one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing older adult populations, and demand for long-term care services continues to increase each year,' Reed wrote in the letter.
The loss of Haitian workers risked 'causing a ripple effect that could overwhelm our local hospitals and the entire healthcare system,' he continued.
Nancy Hagans, president of the New York State Nurses Association, moved to the U.S. from Haiti as a child and works at a hospital in Brooklyn. At an August 5 vigil held outside Maimonides Medical Center to protest staffing shortages, she compared the impact of ending TPS to the workforce deficit during the COVID-19 pandemic.
'When healthcare workers live in fear of going to work, patient care suffers,' Hagans told the crowd.
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'Losing these experienced workers creates real staffing challenges for providers who were already facing shortages and risks disrupting care for vulnerable residents,' Lawler's spokeswoman Caroline Hunt wrote in an email to Reuters."
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HFC is doing great work to help the lives of #caregivers and those living with #dementia. Here is a link to their August programming, which includes information on everything from bathing with someone with dementia to the calm of coloring and music. Check it out!
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25 years on the floor. One honest conversation about elder care. A nurse tells us what neglect actually looks like, why ageism costs lives, and the 1 question every family should ask before choosing care.
#ElderCare #PatientAdvocacy #SVEA #ElderAbuseAwareness #Nurses #Healthcare #Aging #Caregivershttps://silentvoiceselderadvocacy.org/2026/08/08/25-years-on-the-floor-nurse-interview-elder-care/
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📣 New Partnership Announcement!
🗣️ Congratulations to Mystic Valley Elder Services on securing this $12K grant from the I'm Still Here Foundation!
🧠💪🏾 I am grateful for the opportunity to partner on this initiative. Through the Resiliency in Motion program, physical wellness and social connection will provide vital support for individuals living with dementia and their caregivers..
I am truly looking forward to contributing to this wonderful program and making a positive impact together! 💟
#Dementia #Caregivers #Fitness #Boston #northshorema #wellness #coach #aging #health #community
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R Meadow Substack Highlights – Revisiting Mar 2026 Highlighted Substack Writers
R Meadow Substack Highlights - Revisiting Mar 2026 Highlighted Substack Writers by R Meadow - July 2026 Writers are readers first. We may relate to specific words or topics, but judge content by whether it lives up to what caught the eye. R Meadow Highlights was launched to highlight word seed treasures worth exploring and a second read. Each highlight here grabbed attention and then resonated in some way. I hope you find new favorites to follow, like, or subscribe to through these […] -
H4JUL26 is the discount code for the John Hopkins University Press July 4th sale -- now until July 8th. W/a purchase of $75, you also get free shipping.
I am a big fan of the Hopkins #literature list (great books on #Poe, for ex.) & the health & wellness list. Re: that last, please consider purchasing my #memoir, Finding The Right Words: A Story of Literature, #Grief, & the Brain. Readers, #caregivers, people who know people w/#dementia have found it helpful.
https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12605/finding-right-words
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💜 This Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Awareness Month, I honor my grandmother, Doña Patria, and the millions of families affected by this disease.
➡️ Progress depends on research, prevention, early diagnosis, and the caregivers who hold everything together.
💜To every caregiver out there: you are seen, you are valued, and you are heroes.
#AlzheimersAwareness #BrainHealth #EndALZ #Caregivers #HealthEquity #Boston #Love #Dementia #Aging
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Yay another #TipOfDay post. Just look at these 3 show and tell photos I can text over to anyone who needs this idea or method. Get this: for slicing celery into really thin small slices. And why this way helps someone who may have dexterity issues or swallowing and choking risks or sensitivity to food
textures.Most of the young caregivers we had had over the years for my adult son who is disabled have no idea what I mean by “really thin slices”. His favorite sandwich is made with tuna salad. If I tell someone to add a stalk of celery cut into very thin slices they have little idea of what I mean. Some have never prepared celery for anyone.
I start with taking 1 stalk of celery and cut off the bunch stalk end and the top part with tiny branching stems and leaves. Then wash stalk. Celery is usually dirty once it’s in the grocery. Slices are thin, small crescent shapes pieces cut across the ribs. When at the lower part of stalk, cut the wide sections in half vertically the hold them together as you continue slim cuts. Otherwise wide crescents are a little too chunky to use this way. The first photo shows these steps. You can see how thin I ask the slices to be cut. (Yes I know I can use more of the scraps in my own cooking but I don’t ask caregivers to worry about this ) Second photo shows they are added to a bowl with sweet pickle relish, tuna and mayonnaise. Third photo shows finished tuna salad ready for sandwiches.
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♥️ There’s always that one caregiver who makes everything feel a little less scary.
A little more human. A little more okay.
This is how you recognize them →
⚕️🏥 https://shorturl.at/lVUtY
#Caregivers #HealthcareHeroes #AlaskaHeart #PatientExperience #NursingAssistantsDay #FrontlineCare #HealingHands -
Good video (about 5 1/2 minutes) from the #MEAction Millions Missing event on May 12:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE3U8O5rWcg
I got a chuckle from this line:
"And to everyone who has had to explain this illness for the 700th time this week, I see you."
Anyone else out there who can relate to having to explain this illness over and over again?
#MEcfs #LongCovid #PwME #Caregivers #ChronicIllness #MillionsMissing
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My grandfather wanted to avoid a long-term #care facility. Keeping that promise was incredibly hard.
He "had a solid financial plan and could afford #caregivers, but it was challenging".
https://www.businessinsider.com/caring-for-grandfather-alzheimers-at-home-2026-5
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Johns Hopkins UP Memorial Day Sale is happening - 30% on books w/free shipping on orders $50+ w/code HMOR26 @ checkout.
If you or a loved one are dealing w/a #dementia diagnosis & are looking for #books on the topic, the press has a strong Health & Wellness list, esp. w/books on #Alzheimer's. I am very proud that my #memoir, written w/Dr. Bruce Miller, is among them. Here is a link to it (& you can read the preface if you click "look inside."
https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12605/finding-right-words
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RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116539973807308301
1. Do not mess with people's #SSRIs.
2. #Depression medicine is also often (and appropriately) prescribed for people with #dementia (and their #caregivers -
#WebinarTV Secretly #Scraped #Zoom Meetings of #Anonymous Recovery Programs
WebinarTV, a site that scrapes Zoom webinars without permission, has downloaded & posted #ZoomWebinars for anonymous #addiction recovery meetings, support groups for #caregivers and people who suffer from chronic illness, and a meeting of #nudists.
WebinarTV’s Michael Robertson told me that the company asks every single person for permission to “promote” their webinars, but …
#privacy #securityhttps://www.404media.co/webinartv-secretly-scraped-zoom-meetings-of-anonymous-recovery-programs/
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"#Migrant care providers deserve straightforward pathways to permanent residency, the freedom to change employers, and protection from the exploitation documented across current programs." https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-migrant-women-who-care-for-canada-deserve-a-future-here
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I'm going for a short walk to quell anger from reading a news story about BC government reducing support for disabled people who need family caregivers & it affects several parents & caregiver guardians I know in more rural areas 😡 This inhumane government really hates #PeopleWithDisabilities & their #caregivers. I need to walk off some rage energy.
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✨🌌 New site just dropped 😱❤️
Thoughts, suggestions, share if you can 🙏⭐
#medsky #healthcare #caregivers
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xpy7izdeaegh3luez3usxfal/post/3mhybtstggc2v
Cecelia Care — Simplify Caregi... -
"What we found is that the caregiving burden increases as aging family members get to be 75 and older. And, among Americans with an aging parent, spouse or partner, those with lower incomes are much more likely to be caregivers than those with middle and upper incomes."
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2026/02/26/family-caregiving-in-an-aging-america/
Kamala Harris had a plan to help #caregivers. #Trump couldn't give a flying f#&*.
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ONTARIO PASSES BILL 33, GRANTS MORE POWERS TO GOVERNMENT
Ontario legislature passed the Bill 33, known as the Supporting Children and Students Act, 2025 on Nov.19, bringing in major changes to how school boards, children’s aid societies, and post-secondary institutions are governed
The newly passed controversial bill is a piece of legislation that introduces significant changes to the oversight of school boards and post-secondary institutions in Ontario, giving the Minister of Education expanded powers to intervene in local decision-making.
Under this bill, Paul Calandra, Ontario’s minister of education, can take over school boards, mandate collaboration with local police to implement school resource officer programs where available and even remove school board trustees.
The government framed it as a necessary intervention to put school boards back on track, strengthen school safety and allow students to succeed. Calandra took over five school boards using earlier versions of these powers, citing financial mismanagement. He has now signalled that more boards are in his sights under Bill 33.
While the government has framed the bill as necessary for accountability, critics in the post-secondary sector say it increases provincial control without addressing core funding issues.
“Bill 33 hands the Minister more levers to pull and hands universities more paperwork for their already overworked staff,” Bruce Gillespie, president of Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association (WLUFA), said.
“It does not fix the basic problem, which is that Ontario’s universities are being asked to do more and more with less and less public funding,” he said.
Gillespie also raised concerns about the impact on post-secondary institutions. Bill 33 adds compliance requirements and administrative workload for universities without increasing provincial operating funding.
He warned that these new obligations could destabilize student-funded services, such as mental health support, transit and campus media, which directly affect students’ well-being and faculty’s ability to deliver quality education.
Equity-based admissions initiatives are also at risk.
“Equity-based admissions do not lower standards. They recognize that grades are produced inside unequal systems,” Gillespie said.
“Bill 33 gives the government new tools to second-guess those efforts from Queen’s Park, which is exactly the opposite of what we need if we want campuses to reflect the diversity of Ontario,” he said.
Gillespie warns that preserving the authority of university Senates is critical under the new legislation. Senates play a key role in maintaining academic standards and research independence, and Gillespie argues that provincial intervention in admissions and research priorities could undermine academic freedom.
This bill not only impacts post-secondary institutions, but also influences primary and secondary school boards, such as the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB).
“With the passing of Bill 33, the WRDSB will continue to follow the direction and guidance of the Ministry of Education and comply with all provincial legislation,” Scott Miller, director of education at the WRDSB, said.
“Our commitment to supporting student achievement and the well-being of all students remains the highest priority. We will continue to work closely and collaboratively with students, staff, parents, families, caregivers, and community partners to ensure that all decisions and actions reflect the needs and values of those in WRDSB schools and workplaces,” Miller said.
He also said more information about Bill 33 and its changes to the school board will be made available on the WRDSB website.
The government portrays Bill 33 as a measure to improve oversight and student success. Faculty, staff and student representatives across Ontario argue that the legislation prioritizes increased provincial control over the funding crisis, campus services and local governance, leaving many in the education community concerned about its long-term impact.
#bill33 #Caregivers #childrensAidSocieties #communityPartners #families #Government #paulCalandra #postSecondaryInstitutions #SangjunHan #School #Staff #supportingChildrenAndStudentsAct #WRDSB