Caregivers forum?

[benny05]

I am looking for a collaborators to start up a new forum called Caregivers.

I noticed that under Lifestyle, Peer Support & Self-Help forum there is a parenting forum, but there is not a caregivers forum. I would like to lobby for a "caregivers forum" whereby it is designed for those of us who have issues about caring for their elderly parents, siblings, or perhaps a child with a chronic disorder (or both--or all 3). If there is insufficient interest, another idea would be to add it with the "Parenting" one, but I suspect the "Parenting" blogger would like to keep their forum separate.

I am already going through this issue, but considering more options, partly because I believe that I need to take a moral leadership within my family to do this, but additionally for the moral leadership in lifting up those in poverty and not looking down at them (as fmr Senator Edwards often said and still says), which in this case, starts sort of in my backyard. My mom lives SS check to SS check, which at present is poverty status; her expenses well exceed her SS check. I cannot provide half of my paycheck toward her financial and health issues at this point. She lives nearly 2,000 miles away. Thus, I could use a support group or at least some creative ideas for caregiving, on the retail side or more importantly, the wholesale (with the concept of her living with us, but we are considering the "trial run" first to give us all options).

According to the DU rules, some of you would be somewhat regular bloggers on this issue (I don't think it has to be daily, but not every 3 months either). Skinner tells me in order for the forum to be established, the following has to happen...and here's the link.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... . If you believe that some general caregiver ideas would be of use to you on the DU and you would be willing to contribute some too, please let Skinner (and me) know.

TIA,
Benny05

[EFerrari]

1. Hi there, benny

I'm game. If, hoever, this idea doesn't get enough votes right now, you might post to the poverty forum. I've gotten great feedback there.

:hi:

[benny05]

2. Thanks

At your suggestion, I posted there too.

Benny

[EFerrari]

3. Good. I think there are many of us who struggle with our own

poverty or take care of someone else who is dealing with it.

Good luck!

[barb162]

4. Benny05, put me down on your list or whatever. Many

people I know are going through this right now. It is hard to maneuver through the system; state, federal, local, home health aide, nursing homes, etc., ohmygog.