The Caregiver Space

03/19/2026

When you call his mother from the psych unit

When you call his mother, give yourself time. A half hour, at least. Give up on the idea of beating rush hour traffic home. Swipe your badge and enter through the doors of the inpatient psychiatry …

03/19/2026

Living in the Liminal Space: When Your Partner Isn’t “Fine” But Isn’t “Disabled”

One day, you’re a couple planning a weekend getaway. The next, you’re spending your Saturday night on page six of a medical forum, cross-referencing "chronic fatigue" with "autoimmune markers." You haven't bought a wheelchair. There is no hospital bed in your living room. You still go out to dinner (sometimes), and you still talk about the future. You are certain you aren't a "caregiver"—that’s a word for people in scrubs or adult children looking after elderly parents....

One day, you’re a couple planning a weekend getaway. The next, you’re spending your Saturday night on page six of a medical forum, cross-referencing “chronic fatigue” with “autoim…

03/17/2026

Work Better Together with 8 Useful Tips

For every 100 million Americans who live with chronic pain, there are that many caretakers. The National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP conducted a national survey looking at family caregiving in…

03/16/2026

We know, somewhere deep inside of us, that the only thing that is guaranteed when you ride off into the sunset is that it's going to be dark for a few hours.

LaKay Cornell

03/16/2026

Why am I procrastinating?

It’s not because you’re lazy. It’s not because you’re flawed. It’s not because you’re unable to do it. You’re procrastinating because the task is bringing …

03/15/2026

Inside The Shocking Legal Guardianship Industry

[The Netflix movie I Care a Lot] is fiction but the story all too familiar to thousands of Americans whose elderly parents have been entrapped by little scrutinised guardianship programmes. Many sp…

03/14/2026

Dad, a Death Sentence and the Planner Who Set Us Straight

During my dad’s illness, I experienced firsthand what had, until then, just been book learning: Financial planners are often at their best when your life is at its worst. Almost immediately, my sib…

03/14/2026

The 3 AM Lifeline: Navigating Crisis Calls, Time Zones, and Cross-Border Care

There is a specific kind of heart-stop that only happens when your phone vibrates on the nightstand at 3:00 AM. When you live abroad—whether as an expat, an immigrant, or a student—a ringing phone in the middle of the night isn't just a nuisance; it’s a potential crisis from back home. For those supporting a loved one through a critical illness or accident recovery from thousands of miles away, life becomes a blur of dual realities....

There is a specific kind of heart-stop that only happens when your phone vibrates on the nightstand at 3:00 AM. When you live abroad—whether as an expat, an immigrant, or a student—a ringing phone …

03/13/2026

bitterness can consider only itself. It demands sympathy but refuses to return it, sucks up oxygen and produces only carbon dioxide. It's like sadness, but stuck eternally at a table for one.

Adam Mastoianni

03/13/2026

Everyone Deserves Care

Gabe Winant is the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. The book “traces the transformation of Pittsburgh, the archetypal industria…

03/12/2026

Migrant caregivers make fresh call for better immigration program

Migrant caregivers organized a sombre Mother’s Day brunch on Sunday calling for the federal government to ease barriers to permanent resident (PR) status. Care workers set up a display at Blo…