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Can craft tell the untold stories of carers? Welcome to Caring Craftivists the podcast where craftivism and caring intertwine to create powerful stories of resilience, advocacy, and hope. Hosted by Vanessa, a researcher and lecturer at the University of Brighton, and Katy, an unpaid carer and founder of the We Care Campaign, this podcast stitches together carers' experiences who use craft as a tool for change. In 2023, we invited unpaid carers from across Wales to embroider their experiences of caring onto a yellow duster. These dusters were presented to MPs at the Welsh Parliament, ...

In this book, author and biologist Marcy Houle shares her personal journey of caring for her father, a surgeon, who developed Alzheimer's disease, and later her mother, who succumbed to other medical conditions.Like many children of aging parents, Marcy often felt powerless traveling this sad trajectory - watching them fall through the cracks of a fragmented and confusing healthcare system, where professionals often wrote off their symptoms as "just old age".

The Caring Transitions podcast addresses the issues and challenges the senior population has in aging in place, downsizing and/or transitioning into senior communities.Caring Transitions of Catawba Valley is the professional solution for senior relocation services, aging in place solutions and estate sales for both full and partial liquidations.

Welcome to the podcast where (yep, you guessed it) we overshare. Join Lauren as she rants about everything from books, unsolicited advice, surviving your early 20s, relationships and the lack thereof, as well as an assortment of randomness. You may know Lauren as the author of Powerless, or perhaps from her chaotic BookTok account (@laurens1ibrary). So, if you're not completely sick of her yet, you can get to know Lauren on a whole new level as she navigates life and the nonsense that comes with it. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

‘Life After Caring’ explores the process of moving life forward again after having been a long term carer. The role of carer is isolating. Little by little the carer becomes cut off from the people and activities that once made up the fullness of their life as an individual. As the needs of the person being cared for increase, the carer’s life becomes correspondingly enmeshed in the life of the one they look after. This is exactly what happened to me. Now that my mother is no longer there and my work as carer has ended, I discover just how cut adrift from the life I once had I am. It is ...

From his childhood in Waco, Texas, where he took expert care of nine small cousins while the adults ate Sunday lunch, to Princeton and an offer from Broadway, to medical and psychoanalytic training, to the exquisite observations into newborn behavior that led babies to be seen in an entirely new light, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton's life has been one of innovation and caring. Known internationally for the Touchpoints theory of regression and growth in infants and young children, Brazelton is also credited for bringing the insights of child development into pediatrics, and for his powerful advocacy in Congress.

All seems tranquil as newly qualified health visitor Sarah motors into a small Kentish hilltop village in her new green mini. She's barely out of the car when she's called to assist the midwife with a bride who's gone into labour in the middle of her own wedding reception. And so her adventures begin.... As a health visitor, Nurse Sarah is as green as grass, but she puts her best foot into wellies and braves the mad dogs, killer ganders and muddy tracks of the farming community.

From comedian and journalist Faith Salie, of NPR's Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me! and CBS News Sunday Morning, a collection of daring, funny essays chronicling the author's adventures during her lifelong quest for approval Faith Salie has done it all in the name of validation. Whether she’s...

A gift from an overseas relative, Graycie, an African Gray parrot, arrives in the Gardiner home not long after the birth of their first child, adding the responsibilities of parrot-hood to their newfound parenthood. Jenny Gardiner and her husband were hoping for a docile, beautifully plumed, Polly-want-a-cracker type of companion - but patchily feathered, scrawny, ill-tempered Graycie was the furthest thing from what they envisioned.

A Telegraph Greatest Book of the Year A deeply personal account of life as a carer and a call to support those who care for others 'Ed Davey wants to rewrite British politics – not with the language of crisis, but that of care. … He offers something rare – moral clarity rooted in lived...

Stretching across two-thirds of the Gardens, the arboretum at Kew surrounds the glasshouses in a leafy enclave to walk, wander and discover nature's beauty. The 12,000 trees rooted in the arboretum represent more than 2,000 species, including rare and ancient varieties. This great collection...