These study findings provide further support for, at a minimum, engaging ICs of persons with advanced cancer in interventions that address existential issues, mental health, self-care, and service use. A greater proportion of patients than caregivers believed that an intervention designed to enhance meaning would ameliorate burden, but, nevertheless, close to three quarters of caregivers reported interest in participating in such an intervention. The majority of caregivers were not receiving psychosocial services, although they almost unanimously reported desiring services. Twenty-five caregivers and 32 patients completed brief, anonymous questionnaires that asked about their role as a caregiver or their perception of their loved one as a caregiver, caregiver burden, and psychosocial service use.Ĭaregivers and patients identified anxiety and depression as top correlates of burden experienced by caregivers, whereas guilt, issues with role/sense of identity, and self-care were additional areas of concern. The purpose of this study was to collect preliminary descriptive data regarding caregiver burden, meaning, and psychosocial service use to inform the adaptation of a meaning-centered intervention for ICs. However, a growing body of literature indicates that finding meaning in the experience of being an IC for a person with cancer has the potential to buffer against burden. Few psychosocial interventions focus on existential concerns of ICs. ICs are at risk for anxiety and depression, as well as existential concerns that arise when a loved one is facing a terminal illness. And, now, my friend Ann.The burden experienced by informal caregivers (ICs) of patients with advanced cancer is well documented. While lots of people have some of the images included in the poster… nobody has them all. I sent this one to uber-fan Ann (who took some of the non-Sheryl pix in the group). Then you just send the image off to a print site and you have a nice poster to hang on your wall. I liked the randomness Posterino provided. I didn’t spend a lot of time arranging image. If you don’t like the result, you shuffle. With Posterino, you decide the size and layout of the poster… pick the group of photos you want to use… and hit go. With enough time and patience (and Photoshop), you could create this montage one image at at time. I’ve collected a bunch over the years, almost all taken by others. The solution is simple: Compose a “best of” poster every couple of months and pin it on the wall in your hall.”įor my first poster I decided to use images of Sheryl Crow. “We shoot a lot of marvelous pictures, bury them deep down in the file system of our computers and most of them never see the light of day again. For those that missed the earlier post, from the Posterino website: I started playing with Posterino a couple of weeks ago and finally got around to creating my first poster. Posted in Family & Friends | Tagged kennett, Sheryl Crow Google and Apple and streaming music Thank you Mark Zuckerberg for giving the world a much better way.

A really, nasty-ass, ugly, useless web page. It wasn’t so long ago that a town or a business would create a web page for something like the Opera House. Kennett corespondent Charles Jolliff shares the photo above. Kennett’s favorite daughter Sheryl Crow is home for the holidays and christened the Opera House with a performance. James Kahn’s is gone now and the opera house has been renovated. From time to time someone would mention the “old opera house” above the department store. James Kahn’s Department occupied one corner and although it had a second story, I never had occasion to go up there. Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s, you bought your clothes and shoes and just about anything except farm equipment from one of the stores “on the square.” The little southeast Missouri town of Kennett, Missouri, once had a thriving “downtown,” situated around the county courthouse.

Anna posterino photography