Gifts for Caregivers
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Special Gifts to Thank the Caregiver in Your Life
Whether it is a mother caring for a child, a son caring for an aging parent, a rehab nurse helping a stroke patient or a hospice nurse caring for a cancer patient caregivers are very special, but often unrecognized providers of the tender loving care needed during challenging times. As Marcia Wallace noted, "Being a caregiver is the most thankless role in the world."
Giving a special gift like a book, caregiver pin, pocket card, charm, heart, jewelry, pampering kit or gift basket is a way to let the caregiver in your life know you are grateful for all of the love and care that they are providing. A caregiver gift can be a small token of your gratitude.
Photo from Irum Shahid, Hands with Heart. Creative Commons License.
Caregivers are Special
There's a special place in heaven
for caregivers.
Maureen Reagan
Maureen Reagan thoughts on her stepmother, Nancy Reagan, who cared for her father, Ronald Reagan, through his illness.
Caregiver Books
The Gifts of Caregiving in the Amazon Spotlight
The Gifts of Caregiving: Stories of Hardship, Hope, and Healing
Amazon Price: $6.50 (as of 02/16/2012)
In The Gifts of Caregiving the stories of more than thirty caregivers in very diverse circumstances are shared. In these stories of caring for an ill, aging, or disabled loved one, we discover how these caregivers found hope and healing and achieved the balance that allows one to continue on being a caregiver.
Gloria Cavanaugh, President and CEO, American Society on Aging writes of the book that "There is much wisdom, inspiration, and hope in these remarkable and heartfelt stories."
Caregiver Books on Amazon
The Gift of the Caregiver in the Amazon Spotlight
The Gift of the Caregiver (Care Spring)
Amazon Price: $6.50 (as of 02/16/2012)
Psychiatric nurse, professional speaker and author Julia Balzer Riley, RN, MN, HNC has written a special gift book for caregivers. Topics in the book include: finding balance in your life, relationship building, spirituality, fear, anger, forgiveness, professional and personal growth, positive attitudes, aging, problem solving, and coping elegantly.
The Gift of the Caregiver makes a perfect gift for special caregivers as a way of celebrating not only who they are, but also what they do.
Caregiver Pins
The Violet Heart Collection for Caregivers
The Violet Heart image "grew" emerging like flowers in the spring after a long winter...inspired by the violet flower and the Purple Heart award. The Violet Heart design combines the courage of the Purple Heart, the tears shed by a sorrowful spirit, the healing nature of the color violet with the hope of spring violets to represent courage, healing and hope.The original design is a violet-purple heart, the later design a white heart with violet-purple accents, but both highlight the tear inside the heart as a simple way of revealing behind the smile, a heart is crying.
The Violet Heart to Honor Caregivers
The Violet Heart cloisonné pins (in original purple or later white) and the Circle of Healing cloisonné pin are simple gifts that can be given to recognize the dedicated caregivers who work so selflessly with those facing life challenges.
The Violet Heart (Purple) - Caregiver's Version
The Caregiver's Version of the Violet Heart (Purple) features the original design of the Violet Heart. This special cloisonné pin can be given to a caregiver to honor and recognize the special qualities and talents that allow them to be a compassionate caregiver.The text on 2 x 3 1/2 inch card reads:
- Let this Violet Heart Pin be a reminder of
the courage, compassion, light and healing touch you bring
to your patients, clients, colleagues, co-workers,
friends and family.
Wear this pin to honor your unique qualities
and your special gifts.
The actual pin size is 5/8 inch which allows it to be worn easily as a token of appreciation. The pin comes with a military style clutch back.
You can purchase the Circle of Healing Pin - Caregiver's Version through PayPal for $5.99 plus $3.95 Shipping and Handling. 7.75% tax is applied for California Orders.
Price: $5.99 + Shipping
Send an email if you are interested in ordering more than one.
Image Source: © 2002-2010 Violet Heart, Kirsti A. Dyer
Circle of Healing - Caregiver's Version
The Circle of Healing cloisonné pin is can be given as a special caregiver gift to recognize the dedicated caregivers and professionals that work so selflessly with those facing life challenges.A special card has been designed that honors the service and the remarkable healing work of these special people who care for others.
The text on 2 x 3 1/2 inch card reads:
- Let this Violet Heart Pin be a reminder of
the courage, compassion, light and healing touch you bring
to your patients, clients, colleagues, co-workers,
friends and family.
Wear this pin to honor your unique qualities
and your special gifts.
The actual size of pin is 7/8 inch which allows it to be worn unobtrusively as an expression of gratitude from the giver. The pin comes with a military style clutch back.
You can purchase the Circle of Healing Pin - Caregiver's Version through PayPal for $5.99 plus $3.95 Shipping and Handling. 7.75% tax is applied for California Orders.
Price: $5.99 + Shipping
Send an email if you are interested in ordering more than one.
Image Source: © 2002-2010 Violet Heart, Kirsti A. Dyer
The Violet Heart (White) - Caregiver's Version
The Caregiver's Version of the Violet Heart (White) features the second design of the Violet Heart Pin. This special cloisonné pin can be given to a caregiver to honor and recognize the special qualities and talents that allow them to be a compassionate caregiver.The text on 2 x 3 1/2 inch card reads:
- Let this Violet Heart Pin be a reminder of
the courage, compassion, light and healing touch you bring
to your patients, clients, colleagues, co-workers,
friends and family.
Wear this pin to honor your unique qualities
and your special gifts.
The actual width of pin is 7/8 inch. The white color allows it to be worn unassumingly on white lab coats, scrubs or uniforms as a token of appreciation and acknowledgment of the work done by caregivers. The pin comes with a military style clutch back.
You can purchase The Violet Heart (White) - Caregiver's Version through PayPal for $5.99 plus $3.95 Shipping and Handling. 7.75% tax is applied for California Orders.
Price: $5.99 + Shipping
Send an email if you are interested in ordering more than one.
Image Source: © 2002-2010 Violet Heart, Kirsti A. Dyer
Caregiver Pocket Cards
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These cards, if printed on the indestructible paper option, can be used as wallet inserts that the caregiver can carry with them at all times, to remind them of their "courage, compassion, light and healing touch" and as a reminder that someone acknowledges the special work they are doing.
The Violet Heart Caregiver's Cards can also be given as commemorative gifts by organizations to honor the work done by their special caregivers.
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Caregiver Medals and Charms
St. Vincent Caregiver Medal
Clevereve's Sterling Silver 18.00 mm St. Vincent De Paul Medal With 18.00 Inch Chain
Amazon Price: (as of 02/16/2012)
St. Vincent de Paul is the Patron Saint of Charities & Caregivers.
This Sterling Silver Medal comes on a 18" Sterling Chain.
The St. Vincent Caregiver Charm necklace is a thoughtful gift for a caregiver.
Saint Vincent de Paul on Charity
You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry,
heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket.
But you will keep your gentleness and your smile.
Saint Vincent de Paul
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St. Vincent de Paul on Wikipedia
Vincent de Paul (24 April 1581 - 27 September 1660) was a Catholic priest dedicated to serving the poor, and a Catholic saint. He was canonized in 1737.In 1705, the Superior-General of the Lazarists requested that the holy process of de Paul's canonization be instituted. On 13 August 1729, Vincent was declared Blessed by Pope Benedict XIII. He was canonized nearly eight years later by Pope Clement XII on 16 June 1737. In 1885, Pope Leo XIII gave him as patron to the sisters of Charity.[3] He is also patron to the Brothers of Charity.
St. Vincent de Paul is the Patron saint of Charities and Caregivers.
Image: Vassil. Saint-Martin de Florac: Saint Vincent de Paul. Released to Public Domain.
Caregiver Hearts
Give a Heart to Your Caregiver
The photograph of a heart-shaped Tiger Eye, "Wear your heart on the palm of your hands" from Irum was the beautiful image that I chose to represent Caregiver Gifts.
I went in search of the meaning of the Tiger Eye gemstone and discovered, serendipitously, that this stone is also a good one for caregivers.
According to Gemstone Gifts, Tiger Eye is thought to promote balance and strength to get through difficult phases of life. It also helps to relieve doubt and bestows decision making with vision and clarity. In addition, Tiger Eye helps one to be practical, a trait very much needed while a caregiver.
Crystal Curestates of the healing properties of Tiger Eye, that "it makes one aware of one's own needs related to the needs of others."
Finally, the Gemstone Dictionary writes that Tiger Eye draws upon the best qualities of a Tiger: patience, focus and determination, all traits of caregivers.
Photo from Irum Shahid, Hands with Heart. Creative Commons License.
Tiger Eye Hearts on Amazon
Tiger Eye Heart in the Amazon Spotlight
45mm Tiger Iron Pocket Puff Heart Healing Stone
Amazon Price: $16.95 (as of 02/16/2012)
This Tiger Iron or Tiger Eye Puffed Heart makes a perfect pocket token that can be easily carried by a caregiver.
Tiger Eye draws upon the best qualities of a Tiger: patience, focus and determination.
Measures 1 1/2 by 1 3/4 inches
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Caregiving Affects all of Us
There are only four kinds of people in the world...
Those who have been caregivers,
Those who currently are caregivers,
Those who will be caregivers,
and those who will need caregivers.
Rosalynn Carter
Caregiver Gift of Time
Give the Gift of Time with Lotsa Helping Hands
Perhaps one of the greatest gifts one can give to a caregiver, is the gift of time. One way to give time to a caregiver is through organizations like Lotsa Helping Hands.Lotsa Helping Hands is a simple, immediate way for friends, family, colleagues, and neighbors to assist loved ones in need--developed for those times when friends and family need help. The Lotsa Helping Hands organization is a way for caregivers, eldercare, parenting, military families and others to organize communities of support.
They allow users to create a free of charge, private, web-based community to organize family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues - a family's 'circles of community.'
Their mission is to "provide the communication resources facilitating a world where caregivers feel empowered to ask for help, and in so doing, improve their own health and quality-of-life; volunteers can become part of the solution when family, friends, neighbors or colleagues are in need of help, and community becomes a recognized way to find meaning in both giving and receiving."
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Caregiver Baskets & Kits
Caregiver Hand Repair Kit on Amazon
Burt's Bees Healthy Hands Repair Kit
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 02/16/2012)
Burt's Bees Hand Repair Kit is a thoughtful gift for any caregiver who uses his or her hands.
The kit contains Lemon Butter Cuticle Creme, to nourish and protect the nails; Beeswax and Banana Hand Creme, to repair and moisturize the hands over-exposed to the elements; Shea Butter Hand Repair Creme and cotton gloves, to use at night to help moisturize.
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