#caregivers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #caregivers, aggregated by home.social.
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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.
#Food #Celery #FoodPrep #Vegetable #Sandwich #Caregivers #Disability -
♥️ 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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"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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#SolarPunkSunday musings...
So, in contemplating my own vision of a #SolarPunk community, there are some *jobs* that imho are crucial to running any type of close-knit community /society...
1. People trained in #FirstAid / #MedicalArts -- for both humans and non-humans
2. #Plumbers
3. #Carpenters
4. #Masons
5. #Blacksmiths / #Metalworkers
6. #Architects / #Planners
7. #Foresters / #Foragers
8. #Gardeners / #Farmers / #FoodProducers
9. #Menders / #Cobblers / #Clothiers / #Seamsters / #Tailors
10. #Chemists / #Alchemists
11. #Herbalists / #Compounders
12. #CitizenScientists / #Observers
13. #Potters / #Ceramics experts
14. #Computer / #Technology fixers (especially #electrical and #solar)
15. #Mothers / #Caregivers
16. #Teachers / #Librarians
17. #Cooks
18. #Cleaners
19. #Weavers / #Spinners / #FiberArtistsOther suggestions?