{"quotes":[{"text":"Caregivers, like all of us, inevitably reflect their culture's attitude toward children and life. The story goes that when Pearl Buck was a child in China, someone asked how she compared her mother to her Chinese amah. Buck replied, 'If I want to have a story read, I go to my mother. But if I fall down and need to be comforted, I go to my amah.' Her mother's culture valued teaching and learning, while her amah's placed a greater value on nurture. Even as a child, Buck instinctively knew the difference.","author":"David C. Pollock","tags":["caregivers","culture","third-culture-kids"],"id":18483,"author_id":"David+C.+Pollock"},{"text":"You are a VIP, a very important person so take care with self care. If not you, who? If not now, when?","author":"Toni Hawkins","tags":["caregivers","inspirational","motivational","resources","self-care","self-help","support"],"id":29855,"author_id":"Toni+Hawkins"},{"text":"Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.--Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver.","author":"Peggi Speers","tags":["aging","aging-parents","alzheimer-s","alzheimers","caregiver","caregivers","caregiving","dementia","elder-care","hope","inspiration","inspirational","on-hope"],"id":53509,"author_id":"Peggi+Speers"},{"text":"Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.-- Dementia Patient Rose in The Inspired Caregiver.","author":"Peggi Speer and Tia Walker","tags":["aging","aging-parent","alzheimer","alzheimer-s","alzheimers-elder-care","care-give","care-giving","caregiver","caregivers","caregiving","caretaker","dementia","elder-care","hope","inspirational","inspirational","inspiring-on-life","motivation","perserverence","on-hope","on-inspiration","on-perserverence"],"id":56739,"author_id":"Peggi+Speer+and+Tia+Walker"},{"text":"Caregiving will never be one-size-fits-all.","author":"Nancy L. Kriseman","tags":["alzheimer-s-caregiver","alzheimers","alzheimers-elder-care","caregiver","caregiver-motivational","caregiver","caregivers","dementia","elder-care","elderly-care","mindful","mindfulness","mindfulness-practice"],"id":70810,"author_id":"Nancy+L.+Kriseman"},{"text":"Gran...I just want to say thank you for everything. I didn't realize how much you sacrificed.” “Children never do. Good Lord made it that way.","author":"Sadeqa Johnson","tags":["caregivers","sacrifice"],"id":137616,"author_id":"Sadeqa+Johnson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","caregiver","caregivers","child","childfree","childhood","childless","children","deep","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","father","fatherhood","fathers","foster-parent","foster-parents","funny","gnome","gnomes","hope","humor","humorous","humour","insightful","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mother","motherhood","mothers","old-age-home","old-age-homes","parent","parenthood","parents","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","second-childhood","selfish-selfishness","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":142693,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"For every wounded warrior, there is a myltitude of family, friends, and communities who are forever changed.","author":"Diana Mankin Phelps","tags":["caregivers","family","friends","wounded-warriors"],"id":144445,"author_id":"Diana+Mankin+Phelps"},{"text":"My caregiver mantra is to remember 'The only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.","author":"Nancy L. Kriseman","tags":["alzheimer-s","alzheimer-s-caregiver","alzheimers-elder-care","caregiver","caregiver-motivational","caregiver-survival","caregivers","caregiving","dementia","elder-care","mindfulness","mindfulness-practice"],"id":215733,"author_id":"Nancy+L.+Kriseman"},{"text":"Where there were once several competing approaches to medicine, there is now only one that matters to most hospitals, insurers, and the vast majority of the public. One that has been shaped to a great degree by the successful development of potent cures that followed the discovery of sulfa drugs. Aspiring caregivers today are chosen as much (or more) for their scientific abilities, their talent for mastering these manifold technological and pharmaceutical advances as for their interpersonal skills. A century ago most physicians were careful, conservative observers who provided comfort to patients and their families. Today they act: They prescribe, they treat, they cure. They routinely perform what were once considered miracles. The result, in the view of some, has been a shift in the profession from caregiver to technician. The powerful new drugs changed how care was given as well as who gave it.","author":"Thomas Hager","tags":["caregivers","doctors","hospice","medicine"],"id":216188,"author_id":"Thomas+Hager"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}