{"quotes":[{"text":"During the last week of her father's life, Blanca stayed home with him. 'I didn't bathe. I didn't sleep. I sat in the bed with him in the living room. And we were communicating all the time. I kept thinking, and it's more beautiful in Spanish, but I wanted to bottle his breathing.","author":"Kevin Renner","tags":["caregiving","daughter","dying-at-home","father"],"id":24087,"author_id":"Kevin+Renner"},{"text":"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.","author":"Peggi Speers","tags":["alzheimer-s","alzheimers","caregiver","caregiving","caring","caring-for-others","dementia","love","for-caregivers","for-women","on-love","to-live-by","self-care"],"id":29649,"author_id":"Peggi+Speers"},{"text":"The disparity, however, between the rewards offered in the labor market and the vital interest to have good dependency care makes it clear that market forces have not been relied upon to supply adequate dependency work. Indeed, a clear-eyed look at the nearly universal twin features of female caregiving and female subordination indicates: 1) that a certain class of persons has been subjected to and socialized to develop the character traits and the volitional structure needed for dependency work; 2) that certain sexual behaviors commensurate with forming attachments, being submissive to another's will, and so forth have been made compulsory for women; and 3) that poor women and women of color have been forced into paid employment as dependency workers by the scanty financial resources and limited employment opportunities available to them, and middle-class women have been forced out of paid employment not commensurate with their (largely unpaid) duties as dependency workers. It has not merely “happened” that women have consistently “chosen” to make dependency relations and dependency work central to their vision of the good life, while men have chosen a wider variety of options.","author":"Eva Feder Kittay","tags":["caregiving","dependency","feminism","free-market"],"id":37175,"author_id":"Eva+Feder+Kittay"},{"text":"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.","author":"Judy Cornish","tags":["acceptance","age","aging-parents","alzheimer","alzheimer-s","alzheimers","awareness","caregiver","caregiving","caregiving-motivational","caregiving","caring-for-others","conscious","dementia","elder-care","emotions","empowerment","enlighten","home","hope","journey","judy-cornish","kindness","memory","mindfulness","parents","patience","quote","and-sayings","teaching","wise-words"],"id":37651,"author_id":"Judy+Cornish"},{"text":"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.","author":"Judy Cornish","tags":["acceptance","age","aging-parents","alzheimer","alzheimer-s","alzheimers","awareness","caregiver","caregiving","caregiving-motivational","caregiving","caring-for-others","conscious","dementia","elder-care","emotions","empowerment","enlighten","home","hope","journey","judy-cornish","kindness","memory","mindfulness","parents","patience","quote","and-sayings","teaching","wise-words"],"id":37651,"author_id":"Judy+Cornish"},{"text":"During the 24/7 grind of being a carer, it's all to easy to forget the fact that the person you're doing so much for is, and is obliged to be, more resourceful than you in many respects.","author":"Naoki Higashida","tags":["caregiving","patience"],"id":40988,"author_id":"Naoki+Higashida"},{"text":"You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity.","author":"T.A. Sorensen","tags":["ageing","alzheimers","caregiving","dementia","eldercare","health","nonfiction","tribute"],"id":50706,"author_id":"T.A.+Sorensen"},{"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":"I began to see that while equality often entailed women crossing the sexual divide between women's work and men's work, equality rarely meant that men crossed over the divide to the women's side: our side – women's – the side where work was largely, though not exclusively, unpaid or poorly paid care of dependents.","author":"Eva Feder Kittay","tags":["caregiving","dependency","feminism"],"id":55937,"author_id":"Eva+Feder+Kittay"},{"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"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}