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The Heart of Caring
Where there is no cure, there must be care
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Home
The Book
The Author
Endorsements
Care Compass
What the Research Shows
Art by Joan
Insights into Caring
Contact
What Resilience Really Means
September 14, 2025
Resilience doesn’t mean never feeling tired or overwhelmed. It means ...
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Awareness: The First Step in Compassionate Care
September 14, 2025
Awareness serves as the gateway to compassionate care. Without it, ...
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Compassion: Meeting Need with Heart
September 10, 2025
If awareness is the doorway to caregiving, compassion is what ...
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Finding Your Way on a Difficult Path
May 31, 2020
A Time For Remembering This past weekend, Americans celebrated the ...
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Music & Memory 🎶 The Yellow Rose of Texas
January 25, 2018
After wheeling my mother to a table in the activity ...
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Along the Path of Caring
January 24, 2018
Caring Brings us to the Moment at Hand Care givers ...
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Three Paths of Caring
September 25, 2017
The Path of Self-Care “Mindfulness of the body is the ...
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From Normal To Lost
December 3, 2014
Do you Know the Difference between Normal and Abnormal Memory ...
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The Reminiscing Connection
July 15, 2013
For those with Alzheimer’s the therapeutic effect of reminiscing is ...
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Lost a Mother, Gained a Friend
June 18, 2013
In the course of our lives Joan has taught me ...
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