Caregiving Quotes Quotes

“To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.”
― Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love

“Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.”
― Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love

“In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.”
― Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love

“The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.”
― Lao Tzu

“Embracing a healing presence requires you to just be in the moment together.”
― Nancy L. Kriseman, The Mindful Caregiver: Finding Ease in the Caregiving Journey

“Never give up hope! If you do, you be dead already.”
― Rose in The Inspired Caregiver

“Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn’t matter whether the person we are caring for is experiencing cancer, the flu, dementia, or grief.

If you are a doctor or surgeon, your expertise and knowledge comes from a superior position. But when our role is to be providers of care, we should be there as equals.”
― Judy Cornish, The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home

“My caregiver mantra is to remember 'The only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.”
― Nancy L. Kriseman, The Mindful Caregiver: Finding Ease in the Caregiving Journey

“Even though people experiencing dementia become unable to recount what has just happened, they still go through the experience—even without recall.
The psychological present lasts about three seconds. We experience the present even when we have dementia. The emotional pain caused by callous treatment or unkind talk occurs during that period.
The moods and actions of people with dementia are expressions of what they have experienced, whether they can still use language and recall, or not.”
― Judy Cornish, The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home

“Whether or not you consider yourself a caregiver now, at some point, you will be. We will face the death of a parent. We will experience the weight of caregiving, grief, and emotional pressure. That's why Holistic Wealth isn't optional - it's essential.”
― Keisha Blair

“Many caregivers share that they often feel alone, isolated, and unappreciated. Mindfulness can offer renewed hope for finding support and value for your role as a caregiver…It is an approach that everyone can use. It can help slow you down some so you can make the best possible decisions for your care recipient. It also helps bring more balance and ease while navigating the caregiving journey.”
― Nancy L. Kriseman, The Mindful Caregiver: Finding Ease in the Caregiving Journey

“My caregiver mantra is to remember: the only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.”
― Nancy L. Kriseman, The Mindful Caregiver: Finding Ease in the Caregiving Journey

“The beauty of caregiving lies in your uniqueness, potential for self-assessment, and openness to personal growth.”
― Eboni Ivory Green, The 7 Pillars of Successful Caregiving: Things No One Tells You

“The day the roles reverse is foreign. It’s a clumsy dance of love and responsibility, not wanting to cross any lines of respect. It’s honoring this person who gave their life to you—not to mention literally gave you life—and taking their fragile body in your hands like a newborn, tending to their every need.”
― Lisa Goich-Andreadis

“Even though people experiencing dementia become unable to recount what has just happened, they still go through the experience—even without recall.

The psychological present lasts about three seconds. We experience the present even when we have dementia. The emotional pain caused by callous treatment or unkind talk occurs during that period.

The moods and actions of people with dementia are expressions of what they have experienced, whether they can still use language and recall, or not.”
― Judy Cornish, The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home

“It's not a matter of whether or not every employer will feel the impact of caregiving/work balance conflicts, it's a matter of how effectively each employer deals with those conflicts.”
― John Paul Marosy, Caregivers Work: A Six Step Guide to Balancing Work and Family: Elder Care Edition

“It doesn't matter whether you have children or not, a spouse or not; if you love anyone, and you're not an a$$hole, the need to care is waiting in the wings. If you are free for now, consider how many flukes and fortunes upon that freedom rests. Freedom is always contingent. Our failure to recognize this is why caregiving hits people's lives like a bus.”
― Emily Kenway, Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It

“I'm particularly grateful for those neighbors and friends who listened to me without probing for details, judging the situation, or giving too much advice about what they would do in a similar circumstance. I simply wasn't yet ready for anything beyond just trying to cope with each new day.”
― Dianne G. Allen

“MORE ON THIS TIDY STORY AS IT UNFOLDS
“Here are your sheets, Mom, warm from the dryer. I’ll make us some lunch while you fold.”
Elsie knew not to do everything for her mother because getting her mother active would help her blood circulation and help dispel the swelling in her feet. She dropped the armload of laundry on the ottoman beside her mother’s lounger.
“I can’t fold sheets alone. Help me with these.”
Of course. What was she thinking? Elsie turned to grasp a couple corners of her mother’s queen-sized fitted sheet. “I need to relearn how to fold these things, anyway.”
Mother and daughter pulled and halved, tucked one corner inside another, and brought the ends together like partners in a square dance. Suddenly, Gail growled, “Oh!” Fed up, she grabbed the sheet from Elsie and wadded the whole thing into a roll. “I don’t remember how to do these things! Just stuff them into the linen closet, will you?” She laughed.
“Okay. I was hoping you’d teach me how to do it.”
“If you don’t know by sixty, daughter, it’s too late! My mom was always so good with linens. You should’a seen her linen closet. It was like the linen closets at Macy’s, all lined up. Mom took pride in her housekeeping, but I just don’t care anymore.”
Elsie was noticing how she no longer cared about much of anything either. The proverbial rug had been pulled out from under her, and though she went through the motions of taking Gail’s vitals, dispensing her meds and massaging her feet, they often had little to say to one another.
“Mom, why do you think the Bible says so often to remember this or remember that?”
“Does it?” Gail gasped, “—talk about remembering?”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“Sometimes when my dad thanks me for caring for him it's in a tone of goodbye — these are the times my heart lurches in my chest.”
― Sarah L. Frantz

“Companionship is more than a presence,
it’s a steady, compassionate embrace that walks beside you, through every season of caregiving and beyond.”
― Beth M. Sutherland