Winning Strategies for Family Caregiving: Lessons from Family Game Night

by Anne Kenny

Nov 2, 2024 | Books, Health

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Caring for a loved one can be one of the most rewarding yet challenging tasks you’ll undertake.

Being a family caregiver is likely one of the most challenging roles you have ever had. Whether your family caregiving responsibilities snuck up on you over time or were thrust upon you as the result of a health crisis or accident, the tasks you now manage, the emotions you experience, and the challenges you face are likely some of the greatest and most complex you have ever experienced.

You might still be grappling with the idea of calling yourself a caregiver. While you most likely identify yourself by your relationship to the person you are caring for, we hope to help you understand, accept, and embrace your role as a caregiver. Embracing this role is a vital ingredient to your success. With this acceptance, you can truly identify and implement winning strategies that will help you most effectively manage all your caregiving responsibilities.

Whether these responsibilities are many or few, the challenges accompanying family caregiving responsibilities are no laughing matter. However, family time together can be full of fun and laughter, and many families have joyful stories to tell from the antics of family game nights. With this in mind, we invite you to play along with us as we use these joyful game night memories as a framework to help you develop winning strategies to effectively navigate your family caregiving journey. Welcome to Winning Strategies for Family Caregiving: Lessons from Family Game Night!

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Anne Kenny

Anne Kenny

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Anne Kenny, MD is a geriatric and palliative care physician, author of Making Tough Decisions about End-of-Life Care in Dementia, and Founder of Together in Dementia, a blog and educational and coaching/ consulting resource to support individuals living with dementia and their families to modify their approach to dementia care so that they can find joy, connection and calm in this difficult, but often beautiful, journey. Her 35 years of experience as a physician and added experience as a daughter caregiver to her mother who live well with and died peacefully from dementia provide a unique approach to care in dementia.