Comments on: Can Quilting Help Caregivers Manage Stress & Pain?

By: Mary Emma Allen

Mary Emma Allen — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:45:07 +0000

Thanks for sharing, Betsy, about how hobbies can help caregivers manage stress. With me it often was writing, too, since I’m a writer and generally have deadlines. Mother had been one of my encouragers in my writing career so seemed calmed when I’d chat about my writing. She also had always been interested in my quilting and seemed calmed, as well, if I was working on some hand stitching as I sat with her.
So it has a two-way effect!

By: Betsy

Betsy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:20:24 +0000

I agree that quilting or any other hobby can help cargivers manage stress. I volunteer at an adult day care center. The caregivers that seem to handle stress the best partake of a hobby on a regular basis. My Mother had Alzhemier’s and I know sewing or cross stitch helped me keep in touch with life other than care giving.

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