Helpful Hints from Caregivers

• Get over your fear of asking for help. Everyone wants to help you. 
• Don’t turn down any offer of help. If someone wants to bake you a cake and you don’t like cake, take it anyway. 
• Arrange with another couple to have one of them stay with your spouse while you and your friend go to a funny movie. 
• If your loved one wants to “go home” to another place, reply, “Can’t we stay here one more night? I’m having such a good time!”  
• If your loved one is sad, ask him why, discuss it briefly, then get him involved in an activity.  
• Read Gail Sheehy’s new book, Passages in Caregiving.  
• Pray with friends about your mutual needs. 
• Start a journal with your thoughts, activities, prayers, and things for which you are thankful.

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