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How to Find a New Doctor after a Move
Finding the new doctor in a new town can be especially complicated if you're a person with a disability. These tips might make it easier for you to locate your new physicians faster and with less stress.
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Hydrogen Peroxide Saves Another Life!
Hydrogen peroxide can be a valuable school in your medical emergency toolkit. Used correctly, it can save your dog's life.
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Cerebral Palsy Fact Sheet For Teachers
As a teacher, I often had students who needed special attention due to a disability. I developed this fact sheet to assist myself and others to quickly gain an overview of cerebral palsy along with a few teaching specific tips to ease stress for both the teacher and student.
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Gifts for Seniors and the Disabled: Clean Hair
I have always felt that I can survive any number of obstacles or illnesses in my life so long as I have a clean scalp. There is almost nothing that can ruin someone's self-image like filthy, greasy hair. It's not something we talk about very often and very few of the hospital's I've been in are...
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Stay Warm 2: Electric Space Heaters, More Gifts for Seniors and the Disabled
Space heaters can be the perfect solution when the power is out or to boost the warmth in one part of the house. Unfortunately, some of them can kill you as well. Learning about the different space heaters and how to use them responsibly may make all the difference one cold winter day. This is...
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Home Emergency Support Network: Emergency Planning for Seniors and People with Disabilities
Emergencies and natural disasters are particularly difficult for people with disabilities. Help keep yourself safe by starting your own home emergency support network. It's easy and it's free.
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Work Support Network: Emergency Planning for Seniors and People with Disabilities
Natural disasters, accidents, and violence make the workplace more complicated for people with disabilities. Get some hints and tips about how to protect yourself and your health by developing a workplace network of support for assistance coping with the unexpected.
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Adult Diapers: Writing About Embarrassing Stuff
Writing about personal experiences in healthcare can often mean revealing private and sometimes embarrassing issues and information. This hub is my exploration of the problem.
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Sugar in the Cornbread, Appalling!
Perfect cornbread is a regional delicacy that can bring out strong emotions of nostalgia. However, the proper preparation, consistency and ingredients are subject too much heated debate. Where do you stand? Sugar or no? Crisp or cakey?
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Advice For Coping with Unexpected Illness
Traumatic physical injury requires healing time for the mind and heart as well as the body. We are so anxious to get back to our lives that we often forget to give ourselves enough time to recover completely. This letter help me find a way to be powerful and positive when I felt most like a victim.
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The Olmsted Decision: Freedom to Choose Where You Live
The Olmstead Decision was intended to guarantee that most folks who wanted to would be able to live in the community instead of a nursing home. Unfortunately, despite this decision by the Supreme Court, many individuals find that the communities they live in do not support this initiative. Learn...
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The History of the Independent Living Movement
The independent living movement will affect more people than any other civil rights initiative in history. However, it's only because of all those other folks working for respect and freedom that people with disabilities have a chance at it.
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Tips For Keeping Caregivers, Household Employees, Personal Care Assistants
One of the keys to maintaining good health and sanity when ill or disabled is consistency of care. You need to know that capable people can be depended upon to provide the assistance you need. Constant concern about the reliability of caregivers or having to adjust to new people on a regular basis...
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Madeleine L’Engle, I'm Sorry and Thank You: Words for the Family of an Artist
It's so disappointing when we find out our childhood idols are just human beings. Is it right to let their foibles diminish the power of their accomplishments? Madeleine L'Engle changed my life with her books. I was grateful for each one. It wasn't until I was older that I realized her writing...
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Observation and Paperwork: Part 6 of a series on Personal Care Assistants: A Guide to Hiring, Training, and Firing
A good, dependable personal care assistant can give a person with a disability a sense of freedom, security, and confidence. Hiring the right person makes all the difference. This series of hubs will walk you through the entire process. Providing your new employee with feedback that is not...
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Dog Stairs On Wheels
Folks forced to use hospital beds or those confined to their bedroom or couch can feel isolated from everyday family events. These low-cost, homemade dog stairs make it easy for pets to visit with their people in any type of bed/couch/chair without lifting or pulling.
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Spring Gift Ideas: Gifts for Seniors and the Disabled
Think outside the box when looking for a really fun gift for the people you know who love birds. For folks with restricted movements, birdwatching can bring nature indoors. Find out about really interesting birdfeeders for close-up observation without leaving your house.
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Don't Smack Other People at the Meeting
Different styles of decision making and thought processing can lead to tension in any group. Understanding how people think through problems to arrive at a decision can make any type of meeting less stressful.
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Wound Care: Wet Healing
Wet healing can help your wound heal faster and with less scarring. The old wisdom of "keep it dry and open to the air" could be doing you more harm than you know.
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Tips for Surviving a Trip to the Emergency Room
Almost everyone ends up in the emergency room for one reason or another. Those of us with chronic medical conditions find ourselves there more often than most. A little preparation can make the actual event far less stressful and frustrating.
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Edward Hopper; Sunlight and Solitude
Edward Hopper was a pivotal painter in the 20th century. His solitary and introspective paintings offer an interpretation of everyday life that is unique and often unexplained. There is no denying that his work has heavily influenced Hollywood films including The Natural and Pennies from Heaven....
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How to Make Your Own Vanilla Extract
Homemade vanilla extract can transform the taste of your cakes and cookies. It's easy to do and the flavor can't be beat. Homemade vanilla extract is generally twice as strong as the liquid you buy at the store. You can use half as much as a recipe calls for or stay with the recommended amount and...
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Skin Care For Seniors and People With Disabilities
Skin is the largest organ in the body and one of the most easily damaged. Depending on location, an open wound can quickly become a life-threatening condition. Even a small skin breakdown can force a person into convalescent care or a hospital bed. This hub will give you some quick and practical...
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Practical and Cheap: Gifts for Seniors and the Disabled
There are many low-cost solutions available to solve everyday problems for people with disabilities and seniors. These simple "fixes" can be purchased at many discount and home stores.
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Complete Job Description #2: Part 3 of a series on Personal Care Assistants: A Guide to Hiring, Training, and Firing
A good, dependable personal care assistant can give a person with a disability a sense of freedom, security, and confidence. Hiring the right person makes all the difference. This series of hubs will walk you through the entire process. Making a list of specific duties will give your potential...
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Night of the Iguana: A Movie for Crazy People
Sometimes a movie or book can teach you about yourself and give you the words to express what you don't know how to say. Night of the Iguana helped me through a dark and confusing period of my life.
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Make Your Own Deodorant
Problems with sensitive skin under the arms can often be solved by making your own deodorant. This easy recipe also lets you choose the sent of your deodorant. Often folks with sensitive skin can be sensitive to smells as well.
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Stay Warm: Gifts for Seniors and the Disabled
Folks with disabilities often feel temperature change strongly. Here are a few low cost gift ideas for staying worm.
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Checking References: Part 5 of a series on Personal Care Assistants: A Guide to Hiring, Training, and Firing
A good, dependable personal care assistant can give a person with a disability a sense of freedom, security, and confidence. Hiring the right person makes all the difference. This series of hubs will walk you through the entire process. Checking references will help you sort the wheat from the...
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Interviews: Part 4 of a series on Personal Care Assistants: A Guide to Hiring, Training, and Firing
A good, dependable personal care assistant can give a person with a disability a sense of freedom, security, and confidence. Hiring the right person makes all the difference. This series of hubs will walk you through the entire process. Personal interviews can often be awkward and difficult. This...
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Help! My Dog Just Ate My Medication!
What would you do if your dog ate your pills? Medication made for humans in adult strength can kill a dog/cat/pet very quickly. This touching and heartwarming article reveals what we did to save our dog in order to help you save yours.
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The Classified Ad: Part 2 of a series on Personal Care Assistants: A Guide To Hiring, Training, And Firing
A good, dependable personal care assistant can give a person with a disability a sense of freedom, security, and confidence. Hiring the right person makes all the difference. This series of hubs will walk you through the entire process. Classified ads are expensive but so is your time and energy....
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Complete Job Description #1: Part 3 of a series on Personal Care Assistants: A Guide to Hiring, Training, and Firing
Finding the right PCA (personal care assistant/home health care aide/caregiver) can take some time and effort. This series can make the process much easier. This is part 3, job description.
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What Do You Need? Part 1 of a series on Personal Care Assistants: A Guide to Hiring, Training, and Firing
A good, dependable personal care assistant can give a person with a disability a sense of freedom, security, and confidence. Hiring the right person makes all the difference. This series of hubs will walk you through the entire process. You start by determining your own needs.
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Mammograms and Wheelchairs
Women with disabilities face many hurdles attaining the simplest of healthcare. The value of mammograms is well known and yet many organizations don't provide the accessible equipment needed for women in wheelchairs to have to simple, inexpensive test.
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Personal Support Network:Emergency Planning for Seniors and People with Disabilities
The best preparation for any type of emergency is making sure that you have the right kind of help available. Obviously, finding people and services to assist you should be done long before any emergency. Preparation can lessen the fear and anxiety often caused by the unexpected. Find out how to...