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At Caregiver Resource Center OC, we are proud to offer resources and education to family caregivers, no matter where they are in their caregiving journey.
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7 Tips for Only Children Providing Care for an Elderly Parent
When caring for an elderly parent, adult children typically work together to come up with a care plan. This teamwork is often a benefit...
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The Importance of Community for Family Caregivers and 4 Places to Find One
Family caregivers play an extremely complicated role in the health and care of their loved one. Caregivers are often responsible for...
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What is CareNav?
The California Caregiver Resource Centers offer personalized access to information, support, and research online through CareNav™. It is...
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6 First Steps for New Caregivers
Starting a new role as a family caregiver can be an overwhelming experience. There are a lot of unknowns and unexpected things that seem...
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Steps When Moving to Senior Housing
Moving into senior housing can feel like an intimidating step. If you’ve been caring for your loved one within their own home for a...
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Geriatric Psychiatrists and How They Can Help
Aging comes with many natural and often difficult to handle challenges. It is normal for an aging loved one to face emotions like grief...
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Debt and caregiving
Too many caregivers struggle in silence about the financial woes of caregiving. When there are so many seemingly more pressing demands...
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What is burnout and do caregivers experience it?
If you’ve been providing care for a while, you may start to experience signs and symptoms of burnout. This is an unfortunately common...
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Work and Caregiving: Part 2 - How Employers Can Help
Employers are beginning to recognize the need to provide care as a serious issue facing their employees. According to the...
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When is memory loss in aging a sign of concern?
Many older adults and their adult children worry about signs of changing memory function. Is mom just becoming more forgetful due to...
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4 Ways to Overcome Anxiety and Worry as a Caregiver
Caring for a loved one each day is intense. Stress that builds during the day can be hard to shake and may linger on into the night. If...
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Legal Planning for Incapacity: Part 2
When a loved one is diagnosed with a progressive and debilitating illness, it is devastating, both for the individual and the family that...
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Effects of Sleep Deprivation on a Stressed-out Caregiver
It may sound unrealistic to think about getting a full 8 hours of sleep each night as you juggle the responsibilities of life, work, and...
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Understanding anxiety and depression in seniors
Over 2 million (of the 34 million) adults over the age of 65 suffer from some form of depression. (Source.) Depression and anxiety are...
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How to Tell if Aging in Place Is an Option
As we get older, most of us have a dream of aging in place - i.e. staying in our familiar homes and environments to live out our days as...
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