http://www.pathwaysforaging.com/http:/pathwaysforaging.com/does-caregiving-affect-women-differently-58.html Helping you help the older adults in your life. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:15:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.pathwaysforaging.com/http:/pathwaysforaging.com/does-caregiving-affect-women-differently-58.html#comment-1959 Donna Emht Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:43:29 +0000 http://www.pathwaysforaging.com/http:/pathwaysforaging.com/does-caregiving-affect-women-differently-58.html#comment-1959 Your words are lovely, but I must add a comment about my most loving father who cared for my Mom for ten years. She had Alzheimer's disease for that long and never once did he envision his life without her. When she wouldn't get out of her chair, he asked her to dance. When he wanted to go to Florida to experience the beach, he designed and had his son-in-law build a "lift" to get her in his small airplane. Nothing was impossible with this man and he was going to experience it with his bride, as he referred to my Mom. Two days before he died, he showed me the sailboat he was planning to purchase and how he would "adapt" it for his bride to accompany him on his ride. Yes, it was exhausting.... the pages of the 38 Hour Day were dog earred. But we also saw the enduring love in his caregiving which made an everlasing impression on his family and friends. I don't know if his caregiving was different because he was a man. I can only hope that I will have the same joy in my heart to match his, so that I can mirror his self-less giving. Thank you. Your words are lovely, but I must add a comment about my most loving father who cared for my Mom for ten years. She had Alzheimer’s disease for that long and never once did he envision his life without her. When she wouldn’t get out of her chair, he asked her to dance. When he wanted to go to Florida to experience the beach, he designed and had his son-in-law build a “lift” to get her in his small airplane. Nothing was impossible with this man and he was going to experience it with his bride, as he referred to my Mom. Two days before he died, he showed me the sailboat he was planning to purchase and how he would “adapt” it for his bride to accompany him on his ride. Yes, it was exhausting…. the pages of the 38 Hour Day were dog earred. But we also saw the enduring love in his caregiving which made an everlasing impression on his family and friends. I don’t know if his caregiving was different because he was a man. I can only hope that I will have the same joy in my heart to match his, so that I can mirror his self-less giving.
Thank you.

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