Camille Peri
Caring.com features editor
- About
Camille Peri, features editor, has covered health and family issues as a journalist for many years. She was a senior editor at Salon.com, where she was cofounder and editor of the department Mothers Who Think. She coedited two collections of essays, Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood, which was a national best seller and received an American Book Award, and Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves. Camille has also written and edited for WebMD, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, Parenting, San Francisco, and Mother Jones, and has been a book editor for Pearson Education. She has a B.A. in American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.
Camille lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons. With her children in their teen years and her parents in their 80s, she often feels that she's dealing with the same issues -- driving, safety, scheduling -- with both generations. Her mother survived a heart attack and cancer in 1999, and Camille and her brothers have spent periods providing their parents with round-the-clock care. She recently helped them move into an independent living retirement community, where they have opened -- and are thoroughly enjoying -- a new phase of their lives.
Recently Published on Caring.com
Monday September 01, 2008
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Interview - Talking With Hector Elizondo: When It Comes to Alzheimer's, Information Is Everything
Alzheimer's activist and actor Hector Elizondo talks about caregiver burnout and how to prevent it.
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Family Dynamics and Parental Caregiving: Author Kelly Corrigan
The author Kelly Corrigan on the pitfalls of insisting she knew best how to manage her father’s cancer treatment
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Death and Denial: Author David Rieff
The author of Swimming in a Sea of Death discusses helping his mother, Susan Sontag, believe she could beat a fatal illness.
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Wheelchair Design: Architect/Designer Michael Graves
Finding a good wheelchair is difficult. Paralysis taught architect and designer Michael Graves what to look for.
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Elders' Nonphysical Needs: Xtreme Aging Trainer Peg Gordon
Xtreme Aging trainer Peg Gordon on finding a facility that tends to an elder's personal needs -- needs her grandmother's nursing home left unmet.
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Breast Cancer: Oncologist/Hematologist Hope Rugo
An oncologist reflects on what she learned about care giving when her mother had metastatic breast cancer.
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Being a Working Mother and Caregiver: Filmmaker Julie Winokur
Filmmaker Julie Winokur, who chronicled care giving for her father in The Sandwich Generation, talks about being a working mother and caregiver.
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Being Old: Psychologist/Sociologist Lillian Rubin
Lillian Rubin -- renowned sociologist, psychotherapist, octogenarian, and author of 60 on Up -- reflects on what no one tells you about getting old.
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Strokes: Author Dudley Clendinen
Dudley Clendinen, author of A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America, on communicating with his mother after her stroke.
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Nagging My Parents to Exercise: Author Bob Morris
Bob Morris, author of Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating With My Dad, learned that affection is more important than exercise for ailing parents.
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Helping a Newly Widowed Parent: Author Jamieson Haverkampf
Jamieson Haverkampf, in Mom Minus Dad: The Essential Resource Guide for Busy Adults With a Newly Widowed Parent, equates care giving with a marathon.
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Preserving Memories: Artist/Filmmaker Eleanor Coppola
Eleanor Coppola, author of Notes on a Life and wife of Francis Ford Coppola, on the importance of preserving memories of your parents now.
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About the Toll Caregiving Takes: Actor Hector Elizondo
Monk star Hector Elizondo talks about the psychological costs of Alzheimer's to caregivers, and the importance of getting resources and support.
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Tuesday August 26, 2008
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Interview - Talking With Gretchen Berland
Physician Gretchen Berland's film Rolling shows that nothing helps you understand what life is like in a wheelchair better than seeing it for yourself.
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Monday August 25, 2008
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Life in a Wheelchair, From Doctor and Filmmaker Gretchen Berland
In Rolling, doctor and filmmaker Gretchen Berland shows the little interactions that can have a huge impact on the lives of people in wheelchairs.
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Wednesday August 20, 2008
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Caregiver Burnout, From Author Barbara McVicker
Barbara McVicker, coauthor of Stuck in the Middle: Shared Stories and Tips for Caregiving Your Elderly Parents, on the need to find time for yourself.
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Tuesday August 12, 2008
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Stroke Recovery, From Jill Bolte Taylor
Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor learned firsthand what most rehab centers don't seem to understand: Lots of sleep is critical for stroke recovery.
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Monday August 11, 2008
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Interview - Talking With Jill Bolte Taylor
Jill Bolte Taylor, author of My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, talks about how caregivers can best help stroke survivors.
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Monday August 04, 2008
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Interview - Talking With Jacqueline Marcell
Jacqueline Marcell, author of "Elder Rage, or Take My Father ... Please! How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents," on how to cope with Alzheimer's.
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Alzheimer's, From Jacqueline Marcell
Jacqueline Marcell, author of Elder Rage or, Take My Father ... Please! How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents, talks about violence and Alzheimer's.
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Monday July 21, 2008
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Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known About Nursing Homes: Geriatrician Bill Thomas
Geriatrician Bill Thomas, founder of innovative senior housing alternatives, explains why he launched a mission to revolutionize nursing home care.
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Friday July 18, 2008
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Interview - Talking With Bill Thomas
Bill Thomas, an outspoken nursing home reformer, talks about why old age should be a time of growth, not decline, and how we can make that happen.
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Monday June 30, 2008
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Interview - Talking With Jamieson Haverkampf
Mom Minus Dad author Jamieson Haverkampf offers advice -- and more than 500 resources -- for family caregivers to newly widowed parents.
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Thursday June 26, 2008
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Interview - Talking with David Rieff
The author of Swimming in a Sea of Death reflects on his inner struggle over how to help his mother, Susan Sontag, face death.
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Monday June 09, 2008
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Interview - Talking With Bob Morris
Bob Morris, author of Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating With My Dad and a caregiver of sorts, reflects on growing close to his elderly father.
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Friday May 23, 2008
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Interview - Talking With Dudley Clendinen
The author of A Place Called Canterbury talks about the role of a good life-care facility in the final days a parent and adult child have together.
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Monday May 19, 2008
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Interview - Talking With Lillian Rubin
Lillian Rubin, psychotherapist and the author of 60 on Up, talks about caregiver guilt, dealing with dementia, and the problem with living too long.
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Sunday May 11, 2008
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Interview - Talking With David Kuhl
David Kuhl, author of What Dying People Want, offers advice on how to have meaningful discussions with parents before they die.
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Tuesday April 29, 2008
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Interview - Talking With Julie Winokur
Julie Winokur, whose film series The Sandwich Generation documents her family's care-giving experience, reflects on caring for parents at home.
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Monday April 21, 2008
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Interview - Talking With Hope Rugo
An oncologist who was also a caregiver to her mother before she died of breast cancer offers advice to other caregivers.
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Monday April 14, 2008
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Interview - Talking With Peg Gordon
Nursing home staff and others who work with the elderly often don't grasp what it feels like to be old. Xtreme Aging Training shows them.
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Sunday April 06, 2008
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Interview - Talking With Michael Graves
Designer Michael Graves talks about good medical equipment and making bad medical equipment better.
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Friday March 21, 2008
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Interview - Talking With Kelly Corrigan
The author of The Middle Place reflects on how family dynamics, faith, and lacrosse figured into her father’s treatment for bladder cancer.
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