WELCOME
By: Gail R Mitchell
Greetings! I would like to welcome you to the
Boomers International™ Caregivers' channel.
As you know, Boomers International™ has undergone
a major transformation. As expressed under shared
humanity on our main page, "goodness, love and
wisdom" hold the key to sharing with our loved ones
as well as all of humanity in this new age we have
entered.
Caregiving is becoming one of the most important
issues the boomer generation will be challenged
with. In alliance with Empowering Caregivers, we
will be creating areas, which will enhance your new
role with informative and supportive databases,
articles, resources, advocacy and legislation issues,
financial and legal information, emotional and
spiritual issues and most of all community. A place
to connect with others who are faced with similar
issues at hand.
The Caregiver Channel will be updated and expanded
on a daily basis along with our Caring For Parents
Channel.
You aren't a caregiver yet? Rosalyn Carter has
shared this basic fact: "one out of every four of
you will either be a caregiver, a carereceiver or
both in their current lifetime" This is startling
news, and it is important for those of you who have
been unwilling to consider these issues to take
heed, for your future will no doubt be touched by
caregiving.
As members of the boomer generation, you are
being challenged to accept a new role as caregivers.
Caring for your loved ones; a parent, spouse, or
child is forcing many of you to take on this new role
as a family caregiver. Usually, many of you are forced
into this role at the instant of a diagnosis from a
physician. Many of you are now known as the
"sandwiched generation" of caregivers, caring
for more than one loved one, usually a parent and
a child or even a spouse. Many of you are saddled
with your own physical limitations that are worsened
under the stress of your new role. Many of you have
been forced to give up your career and leave your job.
The majority of caregivers are married woman between
the ages of 40-65 and yet more and more men are
taking on the responsibilities of caring for a loved
one as well.
The most important issue to keep in mind is that
caring for a loved one will take you into areas that
you couldn't possibly imagine from the onset. The
rewards of a caregiver's journey will lead you through
lessons; you will transform as an individual with new
strengths. You will discover skills and talents from
within of which you had never dreamt. You will have
the opportunities to move into forgiveness, to heal
and most of all open to the most powerful healing
process a soul undergoes; that which is opening to
love for you and your loved one(s) and I believe I
am safe in saying you will have a new born "faith" in a
power greater than yourself. You will not emerge
from caregiving the same person as when you first
began your role. You will face life-altering issues;
end-of-life issues and you will face your own beliefs
about life and death in a different light.
The Empowering Caregivers Area offers many
informative articles, message board forums, a
newsletter, journal exercises, the Caregiver and
Caregiving Site of the month Spotlight and much
more. I encourage you to browse through it.
For those of you who are not yet caregivers and
for those of you who already are, I honor you. Be
gentle and nurturing with yourself and your loved
ones. We look forward to the opportunity of serving
you. We welcome your comments, suggestions, and
questions. Please feel free to contact us at:
boomersint@aol.com or grm4love@care-givers.com
Richest blessings on your journey.
Gail
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