I couldn't help but think about my son. If I wasn’t here, who would take care of him? The anxiety was paralyzing. In my despair, I turned to the one source of comfort and strength I had always known: ...

The roots of self-care neglect take hold growing up in environments where survival was prioritized over well-being, rest and replenishment were seen as a luxury, healthcare and nutrition were ...

And that’s one of my huge missions at Stanford, in our Program in Menopause & Healthy Aging, is teaching other providers how to take care of these folks, because a lot of people were not trained.

DEAR ABBY: I brought my dad with dementia into my home. My husband has heart issues. We are all at each other’s throats all the time. My siblings promised they would help take care of our dad ...

“I take very good care of my heart.” Woodward, 35, knows she’s lucky. Born with a heart defect — like nearly half of all people with Down syndrome — she received her donor heart in 2012.