Support for Family CareGivers

Caring Answers for West County

Serving West County including Sebastopol, Occidental, Graton, Bodega Bay, Guerneville, Forestville and neighboring communities.

Browse our topics:

• Insights on Aging

  • Physical changes

  • Emotional changes

  • Mental changes

  • Your strengths

  • Your legacy

• Staying Independent

  • Preventing Hospitalizations and Re-hospitalizations

  • Managing Medications

  • Preventing Falls

  • Driving Safely

• Tips and Tools for Family Caregivers

  • Your Changing Role

  • Coping with Stress

  • Dealing with Family

  • Educating Yourself

  • Finding Help

• Common Conditions

  • Living with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)

  • Living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

  • Living with Dementia

  • Living with Diabetes

• Difficult Symptoms

  • Managing pain

  • Trouble breathing

  • Fatigue

  • Depression and anxiety

  • Nausea, diarrhea and constipation

  • Restlessness, agitation and delirium

• Important Decisions

  • Quality of life and serious illness

  • Health care planning: the Advance Directive

  • POLST – Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment

  • Starting the conversation about end-of-life wishes

• Medical Concerns

  • Caregiving Tips

  • Nutrition, eating and serious illness

  • Managing pain

  • Talking with your doctor

• Emotional-Spiritual Issues in Serious Illness

  • Hope and serious illness

  • Grief and serious illness

  • Spirituality and serious illness

  • Family conflict