An exhausted parent can’t provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.

Many of us follow the commandment 'Love One Another.' When it relates to caregiving, we must love one another with boundaries. We must acknowledge that we are included in the 'Love One Another.

Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn’t matter whether the person we are caring for is experiencing cancer, the flu, dementia, or grief.If you are a doctor or surgeon, your expertise and knowledge comes from a superior position. But when our role is to be providers of care, we should be there as equals.

Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.--Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver.

Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.-- Dementia Patient Rose in The Inspired Caregiver.

Caregiving will never be one-size-fits-all.

Caregiving will never be one-size-fits-all.

The literature has only these words of comfort for a patient and her family at this stage. Remember, there is still a living spirit inside this diminished person, the spirit of someone you love.

Embracing a healing presence requires you to just be in the moment together.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.