Quotes About A Caregiver

#1. It would be sad to be hired as a caregiver and then die before the person you were looking after. You wouldn't be able to let people know you did a good job.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#2. I'm not a caregiver.

Jeanne Phillips

#3. Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.

Mayim Bialik

#4. You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.

Gail Sheehy

#5. I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.

Mindy Sterling

#6. It is so important as a caregiver not to become so enmeshed in the role that you lose yourself. It's neither good for you nor your loved one.

Dana Reeve

#7. If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.

Emily Yoffe

#8. When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.

Naomi Judd

#9. You can be as devoted and loving a spouse or a caregiver or child, but you also have to remember that you have to program time for yourself in there, because it will renew you.

Jeanne Phillips

#10. I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.

Wendy E. Long

#11. But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.

Melanie Bennett

#12. Many of us follow the commandment 'Love One Another.' When it relates to caregiving, we must love one another with boundaries. We must acknowledge that we are included in the 'Love One Another.

Peggi Speers

#13. You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

Mallory Ortberg

#14. Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.

Tia Walker

#15. Tears water our eyes.

"Remember," mom soothes, "like the beautiful blooms beneath the weeds, Nana is still Nana underneath.

Kathryn Harrison

#16. My caregiver mantra is to remember: the only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.

Nancy L. Kriseman

#17. You don't need to be primary caregiver of your children to be of primary influence in their lives. What you do for them behind the scenes in your own unique way is what makes the true difference in the long run.

Miya Yamanouchi

#18. An exhausted parent can't provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.

Charisse Montgomery

#19. By loving you more, you love the person you are caring for more.

Peggi Speers

#20. When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.

Timothy Keller

#21. I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy.

Tom Hardy

#22. To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.

Tia Walker

#23. In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.

Tia Walker

#24. One goal of the mindful caregiver is to find ways to not feel 'dis-eased' in the caregiving process.

Nancy L. Kriseman

#25. If you're an educator, caregiver, or parent, and you find yourself unable to contain your anger with kids, please consider getting professional help. Excessive harshness, whether it's emotional or physical in nature, can cause lasting harm to children.

Laura L. Smith

#26. Because when you're the caregiver, you're just as much the patient as the actual patient.

Bryan Bishop

#27. I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could totally do it on my own, which I did for a while. I've hired a babysitter before, but as for a full-time caregiver ... for a control freak like me, it ain't gonna happen!

Keri Russell

#28. My original fear that my daughter was going to die before BettyJane and myself has now been replaced with the fear that she is going to outlive us.

JohnA Passaro

#29. A simple act of kindness goes a long way in your relationship with your caregiver

Kristen J. Duca

#30. Embracing a healing presence requires you to just be in the moment together.

Nancy L. Kriseman

#31. Just because someone has cancer, it doesn't mean you stop laughing at them or making fun of them.

Tanya Masse

#32. The literature has only these words of comfort for a patient and her family at this stage. Remember, there is still a living spirit inside this diminished person, the spirit of someone you love.

Dan Gasby

#33. As your care recipient's advocate, be involved, don't accept the status quo, and don't be afraid to voice your concerns.

Nancy L. Kriseman

#34. Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.
Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver

Peggi Speers

#35. An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children.

Charisse Montgomery

#36. Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.

Philippa Perry