How the Stressed Caregiver Can Get Energy & Strength
As a caregiver to a challenging elderly family member, you need to have all the energy, stamina and strength you can get. Here is how you can get it all. […]
Exercises that Will Make Caregiving Easier, Reduce Injury Risk
Do these exercises that mimic caregiving tasks so that you can be the strongest caregiver possible with the lowest injury risk. The following tasks come with the highest degree of difficulty to carry out: • [...]
What Caregivers of Older Adults with Diabetes Should Know
Here are five things that caregivers of older adults with diabetes absolutely should know. […]
Best Exercise for Making Pushing a Wheelchair Easier on Back
There is one single exercise that mimics pushing a wheelchair. This fun exercise will train your back to better handle pushing against a wheelchair – even up inclined walkways. […]
Caregivers to Elderly: How to Lift Mother off the Floor
When I was a caregiver to my elderly mother, I was always easily lifting her 130-pound body off the floor. Following quintuple bypass surgery, mitral valve replacement and a pacemaker implant, my mother developed a [...]
How to Prevent Weight Gain from Caregiving Stress
Here's a no-nonsense way to outright prevent gaining weight no matter how stressful your caregiving tasks are, no matter how demanding your charge is. I’m an exercise and fitness enthusiast, and former personal trainer, who [...]
