Tips, Tools & Templates

for people caring for aging parents

or unexpectedly thrust into…

Caregiving

This site is a work in progress.  

Tips, Tools & Templates for People Dealing with Aging Parents

or Unexpectedly Thrust into Caregiving

The purpose of this site is to provide tools and resources primarily for people caring for aging parents.

Also, many of the tools are helpful for those who have been unexpectedly thrust into a caregiving situation due to illness or injury.

The goal is to leverage the learnings from the community of those who have gone through this process and share best practices to, hopefully, make the journey a little easier.

This site is dedicated to my mother, Sydney, for whom I provided care the last few years of her life.

— Stacey Dickinson

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Tools & Templates

General Resources

Dementia/Cognitive Resources

Leverage Your Team

Planning an Afternoon Outing

Use this handy checklist when planning your next outing.

Checklist for an outing...

Quick Quotes & Tips

Tip: Get a lockbox (with a combination on the box) that can be shared with caregivers. You can put in credit cards, medications, keys, whatever it is that you don't want lost.

–Nancy O.

Tip: Meet all healthcare providers and attend as many appointments as possible. Like most of life, it is about relationships. If you know the pharmacist, oxygen provider, phlebotomist, etc. it can make a big difference.

–Matt B.

Tip: Upload pictures of your loved one with friends and family onto a photo frame or old computer and put it on slideshow. This can also be a conversation starter for caregivers: “Oh look! You visited NYC. How fun!”

–Stacey D.

"When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us..."

— Helen Keller

"When life gets a little rocky, please remember... Without the rain, there would be no rainbows... Without the winter, there would be no spring... Every trial carries within it the potential for triumph, Waiting to be brought forth... by you."

–Linda Lee Ford

"To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought."

–Tom Robbins

"We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us."

–Edward Lewis

"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."

–Orison Swett Marden

Some of the above inspirational quotes can be found in the Play the Day™ 52-week Quotes/Photo Book.

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