Do your children enjoy vegetable soup? Vegetable soup can be exciting to make and delicious to eat. This is true, especially for children, if you pair it with a story about growing vegetables or making soup! Making soup together can become a fun family event. Children are more likely to taste what they have helped […]
How to ward off Alzheimer’s Disease?
Nearly six million Americans, aged 65 and older, have Alzheimer’s disease. Estimates show that number can increase to 14 million by 2060. Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common type of dementia. Dementia is not a disease but a general term for the impaired ability to remember, think, or make decisions that interferes with doing everyday activities. […]
Preventing Empathetic Overload
As caregivers, first responders, and health providers know well, empathetic burnout is waiting to happen when we directly take on the suffering of others, particularly for long periods of time. With awareness, we can instead bring “rational” empathy into our work and lives. This is where we try to understand what another person is going […]
