The Magic of Mondays: The Healthiest Day of the Week
Mondays: a day to dread, or a chance for a fresh start? The Monday Campaigns, a non-profit public health initiative, is on a mission to leverage Monday as a day to promote self-care to help people become healthier and happier. Why Monday? Because it’s the beginning. Monday initiates not only the busy week ahead, but…
Family Caregiving for Cystic Fibrosis
Healthcare systems are products of design. Therefore, improving healthcare systems and their outcomes requires smart, thoughtful decisions about how to improve their design. To do this, we must start with the people whom the systems serve. Atlas of Caregiving’s founder and CEO, Rajiv Mehta, plays an active role in improving healthcare system design through deep…
Caregiving Begins With Knowledge. What Comes Next?
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe An efficient, supportive and understanding caregiving environment is one in which the entire burden doesn’t fall on only one person, but on a team of interconnected individuals. The process of creating such an environment starts with knowing what…
Atlas CareMaps: One of Many Solutions
The Atlas CareMap is only one of the practical solutions being developed by the Atlas of Caregiving community. Atlas Practical Solutions are research-based tools and teachings for both caregivers and healthcare professionals to better understand and to improve daily caregiving realities. Each solution is based on real-world feedback, aims to inspire action, and begins with…
Draw Your Own CareMap at Home
“We can’t value what we don’t see. And we don’t improve what we can’t value. If we want to improve, first we have to see.” – Rajiv Mehta, Atlas of Caregiving founder and CEO The Atlas CareMap is a way to see. It is designed as a deceptively simple resource that helps family caregivers better…
A New Way to See
“Atlas’ CareMapping is a new tool, and we want to use it going forward with caregivers. It’s eye-opening because it provides a perspective into caregiving that the caregiver wasn’t aware of before. Once they can see it differently, there’s more of an opportunity to see opportunities for improvement.” – Lisa Brabo, Executive Director of Santa…
How I Kept My Grandad Laughing (and myself sane): Self-Care for Caregivers Series
We’d like to introduce Self-Care for Caregivers, a series featuring real-life caregivers sharing their stories and their advice as they learn to navigate their caregiving stories. Our goal is to show family caregivers they are not alone – and that in each unique caregiving story there are techniques learned for improving one’s resilience. We hope…