Latest Blog Posts for It's a Stage Not an and Age

• You Don’t Have To Agree To Be Kind To Each Other
  on Jul 12, 2016 in Uncategorized #care #elder #TheSandwichGeneration
  You won’t always agree with everyone. We are all individuals and have our own thoughts, feelings and opinions. Our individuality is what makes us special. You may not agree with each other and to be honest there will be more times then not that yo...
• SHOULD MUST NEED
  on Jul 1, 2016 in Uncategorized #aged care #ageing workforce #selfcare #support #toughdecisions
  Should Must Need Words not to live by. We get so caught up in these words that they actually end up suffocating us. Just think about it for a moment: Should – puts so much pressure on you. No it didn’t happen that way so why beat yourself up abou...
• Not Everything Is Always Perfect
  on Jun 10, 2016 in Uncategorized #anger #eldercare #notalone #support #toughdecisions
  What is perfect? More to the point what is perfect for you will probably not be perfect for anyone else. I’ve been helping a friend with their aged loved one and it has been very interesting for me to witness the different family dynamics. And to s...
• Finding Aged Care is Stressful
  on May 30, 2016 in Uncategorized #agedcare #ageing workforce #itoknottobeok
  I was chuffed to be asked to be part of an interview on ABC Radio Adelaide earlier this month. Finally people are starting to talk about how stressful and tough it is on the aged care journey. When people contacted the radio show and shared their exp...
• Do you tell them?
  on May 10, 2016 in Uncategorized #agedcare #family #selfcare #support #whattodo
  Seriously I want to know. Recently I had to have some medical tests done and I didn’t know if I should tell my 19 year old son about the tests. Just as I am debating this very question I flicked over to MASH and one of the characters is going throu...
• Mother’s Day – What Does It Mean To You?
  on May 3, 2016 in Uncategorized #agedcare #elder #family #mothers #support
  Each and every one of us will have a different opinion, thought or feeling about Mother’s Day. For me there are many mixed emotions.   Memories – Wonderful memories of Mum, our grandmother,my mother-in-law, our sister and friends. I love tha...
• Do you know what support you need?
  on Apr 5, 2016 in Uncategorized #eldercare #selfcare
  If you asked me this question during my caring journey I wouldn’t have been able to answer you. I was so overwhelmed with what was going on I just stumbled from one challenge to the next. It wasn’t until I was on the final stages of my caring jou...
• We Are All Different
  on Mar 29, 2016 in Uncategorized #aged care #selfcare #support #toughdecisions different
  Each and every one of us deals with things differently. It doesn’t matter what personality assessment you like – DISC, Enneagram, 5 languages of love or any of the many other personality assessments the outcome is the same. We are all different a...
• Compassion Fatigue
  on Mar 15, 2016 in Uncategorized #elder #eldercare #notalone #selfcare #support
  Compassion fatigue – yes it is a thing. I recently found some information about Compassion Fatigue, it is a term that is common place in professions that deal with trauma on a regular basis – hospital staff, police or the frontline carers. Howeve...
• It’s Ok To Want Support
  on Mar 8, 2016 in Uncategorized #caring #eldercare
  We get so caught up in what we think should be like or do. We think we need to be the tough strong one doing it all alone. Baloney… Balderdash …Hogwash! Life is tough and at times we need some support. As shared in our book “Tough…Tough Times...

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