A Dad’s Story: Helping Kids Adjust to Grief and Change
After caring for wife Kathryn at home for several years, Ian Wilson of Taumarunui reluctantly accepted the need for residential care. Ian shares his advice for other couples adjusting to…
19/02/2013
Carer Story: Saying Goodbye To Leona
By Elizabeth Paske, Mary Potter Clinical Manager Leona and I were closer than sisters. We’d gone through all kinds of major events together: deaths, divorces, kids, job changes … life.…
15/02/2013
Carer Story: Remembering Mum
By Sharon Marks Imagine a Christmas where, after a traumatic relationship separation, you find yourself alone and destitute in a new town with two small children. That is where I…
14/02/2013
A Year Ago Today
Carers World Radio is an internet based radio station for carers around the globe. “A year ago my mother fell and broke her hip. It has been a very sad, bumpy…
02/12/2012
CaringBridge: Bringing People Together During Any Health Event
CaringBridge is a free service friends, whānau, and family can use to stay in close touch during any type of health event. Carers NZ likes this wonderful online service! Check…
17/11/2012
Grief + Loss Resources from Skylight
Skylight is a charitable trust that offers a wide range of services including counselling to support those facing tough times of change, loss, trauma and grief, whatever the cause, and…
03/11/2012
Caring for Nana Balloon
When 80 year old Phyllis died, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren each tied a bright, helium-filled balloon to her casket. Phyllis’ nickname was ‘Nana Balloon’ because she loved to give them…
30/10/2012
When I Die: A Two Week Conversation
Labour strategist and peer Philip Gould was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in 2008 and in the summer of 2011 was given three months to live. He commissioned filmaker…
11/05/2012