Caring for a Spouse
Caring for a Spouse : Advice, tips and support for family caregivers who are providing long term care for a spouse. Connect with, share, and learn from the tips and strategies of other experienced family caregivers who are coping with caring for an ill or elderly spouse.
Spouse Articles
My Wife’s Alzheimer's Transformed Our 40-Year Marriage
When my wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, we thought our life, as we knew it, was over. But we've encountered some unexpected blessings along the way.
4 CommentsCaregiving's Toll on Marriage: A Personal Story
Taking care of a husband with cancer while raising three kids younger than ten was a future I never expected when we first said "I do."
6 Comments4 Steps for Successful Long-Term Care Planning With a Spouse
As a couple, facing the financial and emotional requirements of long-term care is a challenge. Here are the four steps to successful long-term care planning with a spouse.
1 CommentSpousal Impoverishment: Medicaid Spend-Down Rules for Married Couples
Medicaid spend-down rules for married couples are different, depending on where each spouse lives. When one still lives at home, known as the “community spouse,” they can often keep more assets and income to avoid what is called spousal impoverishment.
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Spouse Questions
How do you see past the anger where your spouse has self neglected for 20 years and now we are both paying the price?
3 AnswersMargaretMcKen Answered 3 hours ago“I don’t love you anymore,” says my husband with white matter brain disease, but he is caring and attentive. It’s hurtful. How to respond?
10 AnswersDaughterof1930 Answered 18 hours agoHow to get a break from a demanding, uncooperative husband with Parkinson's and dementia?
16 AnswersIgloocar Replied May 18, 2024Children would like me to bring home spouse in nursing home.
25 AnswersJoAnn29 Replied May 17, 2024
Spouse Discussions
Need help finding my husband, who is probably a ward of the state of Texas.
9 CommentsJTQJOTSM Commented May 13, 2024Can spouse sell home if wife is on New York State Medicaid?
3 Commentselisny Commented Apr 14, 2024What to do with my husband?
15 CommentsDoggieMom86 Commented Mar 18, 2024My husband has a monthly income of $2400 from pension and SS. I also have a pension and SS.
2 Commentsigloo572 Commented Mar 4, 2024
Spouse Related Topics
- Alzheimer's & Dementia
- Dementia Behaviors
- Cognitive Decline
- Memory Loss
- Violent Behavior
- Signs of Dementia
- Cancer
- Early Onset Alzheimer's
- Mild Dementia
- Sundowner's Syndrome
- Lewy Body Dementia
- Adult Day Care
- Dementia Wandering
- Moderate Dementia
- Severe Dementia
- Home Modification
- Area Agency on Aging
- Aging in Place
- Chemotherapy
- Prostate Cancer