Where they can get support and help for their loved ones [Video]

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Barbara Cameron has been a caregiver before and knows the importance of giving yourself grace.

Cameron helped with care for her mother and her mother-in-law, who had Alzheimer’s, and said it can be hard to maintain poise and balance. It’s key, she said, to find ways to keep your sense of self — and to laugh.

“You have to still be your own person in some way and not just let yourself drain away,” she said before a recent Alzheimer’s education conference in West Valley City.

It’s common for caregivers to feel guilt, said Linda Cole, deputy director of aging and family services for Mountainland Association of Governments.

They feel like they aren’t doing enough and yet exhausted at the same …