65 is the new 40 This podcast is taken from a radio show I was a guest on in Chicago. It coincided with a TV show that was on at the time called Forever Young, a reality-based show that had older adults rooming with younger adults for many weeks. The...
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Paying for Care – Smilecast 26
Paying for Care Paying for care. There are a lot of misconceptions. Let’s clear them up in the episode. People mistakenly think Medicare will somehow pay for your long term needs. It does in limited circumstances. Other than that you are on your own. Deplete your money and go on...
How to Tell Family About a Dementia Diagnosis – Smilecast 54
How to Tell Family About a Dementia Diagnosis When someone has just learned that they have a dementia diagnosis, how do you go about telling family members? How do you educate them about the disease? What activities can you engage in? We cover this in this Smilecast. It is from...
One Day at a Time – Smilecast 25 – The Aging Experience
One Day at a Time As a caregiver in order to turn your mindset from caregiving as burdens to caregiving as opportunity, you have to take one day at a time. We all have the same number of hours and when we enter a day with positive intention, we can...
The Rewards of Caregiving – Smilecast 24
The Rewards of Caregiving I have talked often about the rewards of caregiving from the standpoint of it being an opportunity not a burden, etc. But there are also rewards that you can reap by applying for the right benefits to offset the cost of care. I’ll cover some of...
Smilecast 52 – Sound Health Radio – Caregiver Cruise and Caregiver Summit
My Interview on Sound Health Radio about our Caregiver Cruise and Caregiver Summit I was excited to participate in almost an hour-long radio broadcast on Sound Health. We talked about many issues from how I entered the business to lessons I have learned from elders. We did a deep dive...
Taking Care of Yourself – Smilecast 23
Taking Care of Yourself Every day we need to learn a lesson from our caregiving journey. As with the person in the story on Smilecast, it became clear that unlike himself, who could take care of his mom, he had no social support in place should he need care. Taking...
Traveling with Seniors, Charlotte Today – Smilecast 51
Traveling with Seniors With summer here it’s time to make vacation plans. When it comes to traveling with seniors, a little extra planning is necessary to assure that caregivers and seniors alike enjoy the vacation. I cover the following from my Charlotte Today segment: How can we know whether a senior...
New Caregiver – Stepping into the Role – Smilecast 22
New Caregiver Sometimes as in the case of my sister and my mother, you are thrust into becoming a caregiver. In my sister’s case, she had lung cancer as she was caregiving for mom. And when she passed I was caregiver to mom. Other times, you can see the caregiving...
The Ed Tyll Show – Discussing the Caregiver Smile Cruise – Smilecast 50
The Ed Tyll Show It was great to appear on the Ed Tyll Show. He is a gracious host and a curious one. We talked about many topics. Starting with the general area of caregiving, we progressed to talk about the Dementia Action Alliance and then of course our Caregiver...