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Dear Friends:
Family caregivers are crucial to the health and quality of life of millions of spouses, partners, parents, family members, relatives, and friends across the country. Summertime can add additional complications and concerns for family caregivers. Age, medical conditions, or medications can inhibit a person's ability to regulate body temperature, making them more vulnerable to heat related problems. For more information, FCA's article on Hot Weather Tips is a good starting point to understand summertime weather risks, and includes warning signs of heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke (the most serious) . For additional reading, please see the National Institute on Aging's article on Hot Weather Safety for Older Adults.
On a lighter note, we hope you will be able to carve out time for your own self-care this summer, and take part in the family events, cookouts, outdoor activities, and festivals that we all look forward to with the coming of summer.
Sincerely,
Calvin Hu
Education Coordinator
edprograms@caregiver.org
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“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
— Nelson Mandela
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FCA Supports LGBTQ+ Caregivers
FCA is a community-based nonprofit with deep roots in the Bay Area having been founded over 40 years ago in San Francisco. We celebrate and honor diversity and inclusion. We consider family to be an inclusive term and recognize that caregivers might be friends, partners, and community.
FCA joins the world in celebrating Pride Month, and we’re proud to advocate for and support LGBTQ+ caregivers everywhere. Through the development of LGBTQ+ related resources, support groups, training sessions, events and partnerships, we work to ensure we’re addressing the needs of these caregivers and support them.
If you’re an LGBTQ+ caregiver seeking resources, please see our fact sheets: Special Concerns of LGBTQ+ Caregivers and Legal Issues for LGBTQ+ Caregivers, We also offer an online support group called LGBTQ+ Community Support Caregiving for our Families and Friends. It’s a place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender caregivers of adults with chronic health problems to discuss the unique issues of caring for their loved ones.
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CareNav is now Easier to use and More Personalized With new Update
CareNav, our secure online service, offers quality information, support, and resources for family caregivers of adults with chronic physical or cognitive conditions such as Alzheimer’s, stroke, Parkinson’s, and other illnesses.
When you log into CareNav, you'll find a whole new look with more personalized tools and resources to help you along your caregiving journey. And all of it is organized in an easy-to-navigate dashboard. Get access to our library full of videos, fact sheets, infographics, and more, available 24/7, in one convenient location. Gather and organize resources relevant to you. CareNav is now easier to use, and it’s still free and secure.
No matter what stage of the caregiving process you’re in, CareNav connects you to the resources and support you need. To learn more, click here or register here.
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Fighting For—Not With—Your Loved One’s Healthcare Professionals (webinar recording)
Family caregivers’ relationships with their loved ones’ healthcare professionals can be that of appreciative partners or coldly suspicious antagonists. But there are ways that family caregivers can build mutual trust with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professions for the sake of their loved ones and themselves. In this webinar, we discuss why professionals’ ideas about “patient-centered care” sometimes excludes family members, how caregivers can present themselves as effective collaborators, and ways to productively question professionals’ treatment plans.
Presented by Dr. Barry J. Jacobs, clinical psychologist, healthcare consultant, caregiving author, and columnist on family caregiving for AARP.org.
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Changing Places: Should Your Parents Move in with You?
Making the decision to move a parent into your home is often neither simple nor clear-cut. Some situations and questions should be addressed before making this choice. FCA's tip sheet on this topic includes key considerations like relationships, adapting the home, money, and personal care.
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Caregiver Resource Center Classes
The California Caregiver Resource Centers (CRC) serve families and caregivers of adults affected by chronic and debilitating health conditions (FCA is the San Francisco Bay Area CRC). FCA is now hosting a calendar of classes, workshops, and events compiled from each of the 11 CRCs and open to family caregivers across the country.
For more information on July's events, please click here.
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Preparing Your Home for Planned Surgery
If you are caring for someone who will need surgery, some planning ahead of time can make the recovery period easier. Next Avenue's Courtney Lemanski gives advice on steps to prepare for a planned surgery including preparing meals in advance; taking care of clothing and linens; grooming; and sleeping arrangements.
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How to Negotiate With Resistant Aging Parents? Borrow These Tips From the Business World
Sometimes caregivers and those who are receiving their care do not see eye to eye. One example of such a disagreement might be an adult child thinking elderly parents are in need of a paid caregiver to help out in the house occasionally. To help come to an agreement or consensus, Judith Graham, writing for KFF Health News, highlights using negotiation tactics from the business world.
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CAREGIVERS CONNECT:
FCA EVENTS
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Let’s Get Away, Together!
This series is comprised of interactive sessions with each week focusing on a new place or cultural activity, while incorporating storytelling, music, poetry writing, and/or a simple craft. Each session will include a follow-up message filled with tips, activities, and recipes for families to continue to enjoy after the virtual trip. The focus of each group is to explore a new world, experience a variety of engaging opportunities, and enjoy a sense of camaraderie and community.
Let’s Get Away Together is intended to be an enjoyable activity for family caregivers and the person they care for. Those receiving care who are able to participate in the discussion and activities are encouraged to attend with their family caregiver.
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July 11
Let’s explore Independence Day!
Come join us to celebrate and learn more about this epic moment in our country’s history!
July 18
Let’s Go to San Francisco's Presidio Park
Join us in exploration of this wonderful Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
July 25
Come Fly with Me!
Join us on the anniversary of the first flight across the English Channel as we explore the history of airplanes, including some very unusual planes and stories!
August 1
National Anthems!
In honor of Sir Francis Scott Key’s birthday, we will not only look into our own national anthem, but learn about the national anthems of other countries!
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August 8
Let’s explore Aerial Photography!
Join us in exploring San Francisco from the sky, as we look through the lens of Aerial photographer Robert Cameron.
August 15
The Power of Volcanoes!
Travel to some of the most legendary volcanoes around the world and learn more about volcanology, the study of volcanoes!
August 22
Finding Joyful Moments
Join us in this interactive exploration of the meaning of “Joy” through Hummingbird's seven domains of wellness.
August 29
World Records!
Celebrating the anniversary of the first publishing of The Guinness World Book of Records, let’s enjoy discovering some of the very interesting and wide variety of world records that it includes!
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When: Tuesdays, July 11 to August 29, from 1 to 2 p.m. (PT)
Where: Online
Cost: No charge
Registration: Click here
This class is funded by Alameda County Department of Adult and Aging Services, Contra Costa County Area Agency on Aging, the City of San Francisco’s Department of Disability and Aging Services, San Mateo County Aging and Adult Services, Sourcewise, and the California Department of Aging.
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Cuidados Propios y Manejo del Estress Para Cuidadores
El Objectivo de esta clase es identificar los desafios que los cuidadores de familia enfrentan dia a dia en su papel como cuidador. Esta clase proveera maneras saludables the enfrentar el estress y desarollar resilencia.
Dia/Hora: 20 jul, 3 a 4 p. m. Hora del pacífico
Costo: Gratis
Inscríbase en la fecha y horario que más le convengan: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkc--vrzoqHdUI8YohALswjjJeYTBwiP6K
Para obtener más información o ayuda: Adriana Sanchez, asanchez@caregiver.org, (415) 434-3388, ext. 316
This class is funded by Alameda County Department of Adult and Aging Services, Contra Costa County Area Agency on Aging, the City of San Francisco’s Department of Disability and Aging Services, San Mateo County Aging and Adult Services, Sourcewise, and the California Department of Aging.
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Caregiving Policy Digest is a publication of the National Center on Caregiving, a program of Family Caregiver Alliance. The newsletter offers a fresh look at the rapidly changing world of caregiving policy―at the local, national, and international levels.
You’ll receive briefings on key legislation, news on innovative public programs, and the latest information on caregiving and long-term care policy at national and state levels. Subscribe here.
Click here to view archived issues of Policy Digest.
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Thank you!
We would like to take a moment to extend a warm thank you to the many generous supporters who make the work we do possible through thoughtful donations to Family Caregiver Alliance.
FCA has led the way in supporting family caregivers for over 40 years. Your donation makes all the difference!
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CONNECTIONS CREDITS
Editors: Calvin Hu, Al Martinez
Contributors: Kathleen Kelly, Executive Director, Calvin Hu, Lana Sheridan, Leah Eskenazi
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Scott Peifer
Vice-Presidents: Ian Tong, Catherine Lelong
Treasurer: Keely Stevenson
Secretary: Amanda Breeden Warner
Athan Bezaitis, Amber Christ, Deborah Kan, Shruti Kothari, Mary Ellen Kullman, Tiffany Riser, Wyatt Ritchie, Karen Sperling, Marda Stothers, Celine Takatsuno.
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