After my mother died, I found a new purpose in caregiving
For nearly 10 years, I was my mother’s caregiver.
I didn’t think of myself that way at first. I was just a daughter doing what needed to be done—managing medications, helping with daily tasks, sitting beside her through long nights and harder days.
What I Wish I Knew: You Don’t Need to Know Everything Right Now
Nancy Treaster is a certified caregiving consultant and co-founder of The Caregiver’s Journey, an award-winning nonprofit organization supporting dementia family caregivers. Her husband, Kim Treaster, was diagnosed with dementia and passed away in 2024. Learn more at TheCaregiversJourney.org.
Michelle Bailey's I Am a Caregiver: A Love Story, A Raw, Loving, and Urgent Look at the Hidden World of Caregiving
Caregiving is often described as an act of love, but few truly understand the emotional, physical, and financial toll it takes. In her deeply personal new memoir, I Am a Caregiver: A Love Story, Michelle Bailey opens the door to the unseen world of caregiving and invites readers into ten years of devotion, heartbreak, and resilience as she cared for her husband through devastating illness and disability.
She loved her partner. But was that enough to stay through cancer care?
Laura Mauldin was 27 when she met the love of her life in 2005. Less than a year into their relationship, her partner's cancer returned.
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