Caring for Alzheimer's

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I’ve always been in social services, and I want to do something different this time. I need something with decent pay (maybe -14/hour) and benefits, something that doesn’t require a lot of physical work (I have severe back problems…I can be up and about for a few minutes at a time, but no longer). I have an AA in social sciences, but would like to go back to school and get my Bachelors. Here’s some of the experience I have:

Caregiving for elderly and disabled (I have quite a bit of medical knowledge, but no medical degree)
I worked in a treatment center for kids with mental and behavioral issues
I make menus and order food for a therapeutic wilderness boarding school
I’ve worked at a battered women’s shelter

The job I have now consists of a lot of organizing, making spreadsheets, ordering and inventory, and a little bit of working with kids to pack up food for long wilderness expeditions. The above is just an overview, but I have a lot of similar experience, too.

Any suggestions?

I have asked similar questions and maybe I am the only one who really can answer this; I am 24 and pretty. I am having a hard time with weight, but aren’t we all? (NON ISSUE) I want to move to Illinois to get ahead in my life. I just graduated from APSU with a Bachelor in Communication and a double in Art. I live in NOWHERE Kentucky and Cannot advance in this career route. The plan was always to go to Alaska and help animals, but my papa (grandfather) got sick and now I am here taking care of him living a dismal life as a produce clerk and doing inhome care for a lady from church with alzheimers. I just feel like I will never get anywhere if I do not get out now, but with this economy and a mama that has a job slowly going downhill, I cannot leave. My papa needs me and I need him so I have to be here. I am single and my last relationship ended in November and I am not over it. Am I just really pathetic? I see all of my friends from school having babies and getting married. NOT ME.

Unlike Bush and Cheney, Palin is not some criminal mastermind. She doesn’t even know what the VP’s job is. So who is going to really be in charge? Phil Gramm? Maybe they’ll bring in Reagan’s astronomer.

Here’s the situation: my wife is disabled. I dont know how to cook. My daughter and I don’t have time to cook, either, with all of the chores, job/work/college, and caregiving. My wife used to cook, but with her disability, she can’t. I’ve recently become concerned about my family/s nutritional needs. We havent had a home-cooked meal in about 10 years. We eat tv dinners, fast food, prepackaged and processed food regularly. We do eat out, but that food isn’t exactly nutritious either. (applebee’s fattening stuff) Could someone recommend a menu, a website, quick meals that are nutritious,a multi-v –anything!! Should I buy as many fruits and veggies as possible and eat those raw (and just get meat and chicken through take-out, etc) I need some help, please. thanks. And please don’t make fun. It’s incredibly difficult to worry about nutrition when you’re a caregiver and managing a household, especially since meds cost so much and fresh food is so expensive.

went to md shrink to have my add and sleep meds fine tuned which he did. When i changed family doctors their rpt said that in addition i was bipolar ll. he never mentioned it to me?

i have always known that emotionally i felt ALMOST in constant flux.. not extremes and more fighting a lingering small depression…a small anxious feeling really. no depression that would interfear much with feelings of selfworth. inspite of this "thing" i have always had a "rational" and very positive outlook that comes to me as part of my personality at my core since i was a little girl.

What is normal? Can my emotions become more stable? you live one way all of your life and don’t know what it would be like any other way; but have always known that something just wasn’t perhaps like other people.

I lost my job due to caring for my alzheimers mother, so I have no insurance at this point so asking a shrink is out of the question.

So I’m clueless in all aspects. Any and all info please

I asked at ss about custodial caregiver and I did not get any response.My husband is totaly dependent on my care, he has heart problems, problems walking,and on dialysis three times a week. I need some help with gas and up-keep of my vechicle.We both draw a check(SS) but does not go far.No money left over for a trip around the block. Iam 63 years old and hes 64. I lost my job after 36 years to overseas stuff and was not prepared for all that happened to him and I’m totaly stressed out. I have NEVER ask for help before and I hate to now,but for his care I will.We have an OLD house thts soooo cold ,gas bills that are out of sight , he sits infront of an electric heated to stay warm.We work hard to keep bills at a mim.Our church bought the last tank of gas. I am able to work ,but cannot leave him! Any response welcome

My dad has Alzheimer’s/dementia and forgets a lot. But he FREQUENTLY mentions to me how I should look for a job with Westinghouse. No matter where I’m currently working, happy or not, he talks about Westinghouse. And it’s always like he’s mentioning it for the first time. Common with Alzheimer’s or not?

is this normal? it totals out to 7 for all these checks. but they want me 4 hours a day at minimum wage : ( would you take this job? its caregiving

My mother has Parkinsons and early stage Alzheimers. I live with her and take care of her full time but do not receive a salary per se. In fact it would not be possible for me to hold down a job while still caring for my mom who needs help eating and showering, as well as just getting around her house, making phone calls, and all chores. I have had official power of attorney for some time so I pay her bills as well as my own expenses using her funds. She clearly wants this as is and has more than enough money for a comfortable requirement, even should she need skilled nursing round the clock, which may or may not be in her future. We are thinking of getting a live in nurse and I don’t know how much that runs, but I am guessing around 40k(?) so money will begin to be tight. There has never been any question that my mother intends to care for my financial needs as long as I am devoted to her care.

My question is that my son (her grandson whom she dearly would like to educate) will be entering private preschool which runs about 15k a year soon. I have no funds in my own name (exhausted all with unemployment and pregnancy) save a house I own but have not yet sold. I would like to apply for financial aid because my mother is not super wealthy. How much, for tax purposes and financial aid applications, can we legally say my mother "gifts" me? My boyfriend lives with us, and also has a full time, albeit low paying, job, but unfortunately has not contributed a cent to our household or me since nearly a year ago. Is there any way to indicate this too? I am not sure but I suppose we have shared legal custody, although he generally is uninterested in his son’s affairs. What do I write on applications and my taxes?? Basically I don’t know how to separate my finances from moms…I don’t legally declare myself a dependent although maybe I should?! I am not good about separating our finances, although with the internet of course there is a record for everything.

My neighbor is an at-home mom with a four year old daughter. She also provides care for a one-year-old whose mom she is friends with. She gets paid. I provide care for my own three kids, ages 4, 2 1/2, and newborn.

By the logic espoused on this board, working-for-pay moms are "doing two jobs at once". Wow! Magic! Time Travel! Amazing! So, by that logic, my neighbor is doing two jobs while I am only doing one. Is that correct? Would we have to switch kids in order for me to claim I do twice as much as an at-home mom? Or would I have to be in a different line of work completely? Perhaps if we switched houses?

I wonder if people are mistakenly assuming that since caregiving is apparently meaningless, women who spend the least amount of time doing it are to be admired. The "two jobs at once" idea only makes sense if nannies, daycare providers, and SAHMs are doing absolutly nothing at all. If it’s not really a job to take care of children, why do we pay nannies?
Hmmm, does it matter which one of us is busier? Some days it’s me, some days, it’s her. Does she only get "extra credit" if she’s the busier one?
I am merely pointing out that it’s silly to claim that some mothers are doing "twice the work" as other mothers. There are 24 hours in every day, and everyone decides how to use those hours. Oh, and it’s work if you COULD pay someone to do it, not if you ARE being paid to do it. Either every stay at home mom is doing nothing at all during the day, or the phrase "working moms do twice what at home moms do" is nonsense.

Are the daycare workers that the moms use also doing nothing at all? By that logic, the moms are somehow doing that job at night and on the weekends, which would make daycare workers unneccesary. Of course, they are not "part-time mothers". They are moms all the time. But that doesn’t mean that they somehow are doing "double" what a SAHM is. Unless I can trade kids with my friend and smugly claim that am now doing "twice the work" of other moms, the logic doesn’t fly.