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2010
- Could an adult day program be the answer?
- How diet affects breathing
- Travel tips when your loved one is disabled
- Accessible national parks
- Avoiding crises with COPD
- Making your home safer
- Understanding Your Loved One With Dementia
- Planning for travel with oxygen
- Review of the CareFinder Assessment Tool
- When is your loved one too isolated?
- Adult Day Programs: A Reprieve for Families and the Elderly
- Self Care for Caregivers - Free Respite Provided
- Avoiding crises with congestive heart failure
- Finding positive aspects of aging
- What is an advance directive?
- A clean home: Free services for women with cancer
- Tax tips for family caregivers
- Your changing role: Becoming a partner-in-care
- Caregiver Support Groups at NVH&ADS
- Alzheimer's Respite Camp
- Napa Valley Hospice & Adult Day Services Caregiver Support Groups
- How to beat "cabin fever"
- Making treatment decisions
- Staying calm: Proven relaxation techniques
- Bathing and dementia
- Can Mom live safely on her own?
- Reducing salt in Dad's diet
2009
- Making the most of family visits
- When your loved one gets tired easily
- Finding meaning: The healing of torn relations
- A remedy for stress: focus on the rewards of caregiving
- Managing emotional outbursts
- What is "power of attorney"?
- Getting the most from doctor appointments
- Is the house too cold?
- Saving money on meds
- How do you know if your loved one is in pain?
- Is caregiving hazardous to your health?
- The healing power of music
- If you have to go to the Emergency Room
- Is it Alzheimer's disease?
- The value of support groups
- MyMedSchedule.com
- Safety tips for summer
- The healing power of volunteering
- How to Be Safe in an Emergency
- How the course of a condition affects the family
- Caregiving with kids
- Honoring Cancer Survivors Day: How to increase your odds of survival
- Going on vacation with an elder
- The healing power of remembrance
- When Mom wants only you
- Balance exercises, an important step in preventing falls
- Have you completed an advance directive?
- Letting others pitch in
- Learning to accept help
- Uncle Sam may have a tax break for you
- When ice cream is more important than salad
- Caring for your marriage, also
- Keeping seniors safe from burns
- The healing power of a life review
- Costs of caregiving: Sources of help
- Overcoming resistance to exercise
- The new year: A season of hope
Please Note: Napa Valley Hospice & Adult Day Services does not specifically endorse the activities of any organizations mentioned here, but offers their information as a sample of the kinds of materials and services that are available.
"This archive of past issues is quite a reference center. I've learned a lot browsing through these articles."