Caregiving Coverage

What people living with loved ones with dementia really need: Giving grace

Keep in mind these people caring for loved ones with dementia are hurting and often exhausted. They are doing the best they can. I

Andrea Osbourne, WRAL contributor

What people living with loved ones with dementia really need: No soliciting

Unsolicited instruction can feel overwhelming or insulting to someone caring for a loved one with dementia.

Andrea Osbourne, WRAL contributor

Home health aide charged with stealing from Durham woman

A home health aide was charged with stealing from a Durham woman in her care.

More family members provide at-home caregiving as cost of professional care rises

Due to the rising cost of professional care, a growing number of people are becoming the primary caregiver for an aging parent or disabled family member -- often putting their own careers on hold as costs mount up. Advocates say those caregivers desperately need more sources of support.

Higher cost of professional home healthcare forces more family members to provide care for loved one

Due to the rising cost of professional care, a growing number of people are becoming the primary caregiver for an aging parent or disabled family member -- often putting their own careers on hold as costs mount up. Advocates say those caregivers desperately need more sources of support.

Rick Armstrong, WRAL Enterprise multimedia journalist

Pouring from an empty cup? Alzheimer's Association provides support, respite for caregivers

Plenty of today's parents are stuck in the so-called sandwich generation, the group of people who are caring for young children and older relatives.

Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, Go Ask Mom editor

Introducing Supports for Dementia Care at Home

Introducing supports for dementia care often involves trial and error, as well as flexibility as needs change over time.

Liisa Ogburn

How to approach the most daunting tasks

Desmond Tutu once famously said, "How does one eat an elephant? One bite at a time." This applies when caring for a declining parent.

Liisa Ogburn

The challenges and rewards of caring for loved ones

While caregiving can be a new experience for many, with the help of resources and support, caregivers can ensure their loved one is happy and comfortable in their home.

Abbey Slattery, WRAL Digital Solutions

Caregivers Summit Again Virtual for 2021

In its 12th year, the Caregivers Summit, will be virtual. For no cost, caregivers can hear from experts on legal planning, how to pay for long-term care, Medicaid/Medicaid Managed Care, and Medicare/Medicare Advantage Plans. Register now.

Darcy Dye Bowers

Some believe caregivers deserve higher priority in vaccine eligibility line

Some believe that all caregivers should be a higher priority to receive the vaccine.

Leslie Moreno, WRAL multimedia journalist

Riding the waves: Learning to let go

Learning to be present, whatever the weather, is one of the most important skills we can cultivate and bring to paddle-boarding, a pandemic, caregiving and life.

Liisa Ogburn

Traditional Caregivers Summit Goes Virtual for 2020

The annual Caregivers Summit will move from multiple in-person events to one virtual event, scheduled for October 22, 2020. Here is how to register.

Darcy Dye Bowers

"I can't go on. I'll go on": Caregiving in the Age of Coronavirus

Spouses caring for loved ones at home is challenging under the best of circumstances. Under quarantine due to coronavirus, the challenges are compounded.

Liisa Ogburn

The foreign country of dementia

One out of five Americans is currently dealing with dementia in their immediate or extended family. Four out of five of these families fall apart from the stress.

Liisa Ogburn

Stomping out stigma associated with dementia

It is challenging enough caring for a spouse with dementia. When you add to that the hesitation to leave the home with your loved one, it amplifies the effects. We need community.

Liisa Ogburn

Taking a Different Route with Alzheimers

November is National Alzheimer's Month. This blog will be dedicated to topics that illuminate research, knowledge, strategies and stories related to Alzheimer's, both those who lives with it and those who care them.

Liisa Ogburn

Center for Volunteer Caregiving

The Center for Volunteer Caregiving provides volunteer services to improve the lives of seniors, caregivers, and adults with disabilities.

Liisa Ogburn

On the importance of kindness

It is so easy, almost reflexive, to be kind to a lost child, a new mother, or a baby who will not stop crying. What is rarer to see, but more touching these days to me, are those individuals who take the time to be kind to a struggling elder.

Liisa Ogburn

Caregiving: Stepping back and seeing differently

When we are mired in caregiving, the situation can feel like we are drowning and there is no room to notice things that previously made us feel expansive and alive. What can happen, if instead, you try to notice those things again?

Liisa Ogburn

"Taking Mom to the Club": Introducing Adult Memory Care Day Programs

There is no parachute escape when trying to care for a loved one with memory issues, but there are options. Residential memory care is out of reach financially for many and many want to keep their loved one at home anyway as long as possible. Day programs are a great option.

Liisa Ogburn

Elderly Ladies Exercising In A Gym

It's stimulating and healthy--both for the loved one with memory issues annd their caregiver--to change the routine

Life is so beautiful. Life is so hard.

Kate Bowler, a Duke Divinity Professor and author of "Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved," speaks about how to live while dying.

Liisa Ogburn

Amanda Lamb: Cradle to caregiving in the sandwich years

It's understandable when someone misses a day of work when a child is sick or must leave the office to pick up a child at school with a fever. But the struggle of people caring for their parents is often invisible, only revealed to their inner circle.

Amanda Lamb, WRAL reporter