The Working Family Caregiver Balancing work and family caregiving is a daunting task. I was a guest on Chris MacLellan podcast, Healing Ties, earlier this year where we talked about the issue of the working family caregiver. Caregiving costs employers $34 billion annually. And you may be surprised to know...
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Homebound Seniors Twice as Likely to Develop Alzheimer’s – Smilecast 72
Homebound Seniors More at Risk for Dementia Homebound seniors are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as more active individuals. Investigators at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago followed 1,294 seniors from two separate studies. None of the study subjects exhibited dementia symptoms at the beginning of either study....
WHY SHOULD YOU CONSIDER TAKING A Caregiver Cruise-Smilecast 60
Consider a Caregiver Cruise There are 66 million family caregivers in the U.S. alone; 70% are female and 25% are Millennials. They suffer worsened health than non-caregivers and 40-60% report symptoms of depression. Some caregivers, like my sister, pre-decease the ones for whom they care. Recently, my local church, through funding...
Those With Advance Directives More Likely Seek Interventions-Smilecast 59
People Who Fill Out Advance Directives More Likely to Seek Interventions A study finds that nearly a third of people who fill out advance directives — a person’s wishes for end-of-life care — request medical interventions. The research from DePaul University was published by Craig M. Klugman, hair of DePaul’s...
First Talk Hickory with Hal Row – Smilecast 57
First Talk in Hickory with Hal Row First Talk with Hal Row airs weekday mornings 7:00 until 9:00 ET. Get all the local news, sports, weather, traffic and information. Call us at (828) 327-WHKY and express your opinion live on-air about the morning’s topic or ask a question of our in-studio...
Conversations in Care – Smilecast 56
Conversations in Care The Conversations in Care radio show was one I had the pleasure of being on in the past. Host Tami Neumann. Tami Neumann is Executive Producer & Host As a professional for over 20 years in the Senior Care Industry she has seen and experienced a lot. She realized that...
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...
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...
When You Need to Tell a Elder Loved One to Stop Driving – Smilecast 49
Stop Driving – Taking Away the Keys – How to Talk to an Elder Thirty-six percent of adult children polled by the Web site Caring.com and the National Safety Council said that talking to their parents about the need to stop driving would be harder than discussing funeral plans (29 percent) or...
Visiting Elderly Relatives – What to Look For – Smilecast 48
Visiting Elderly Relatives My appearance on the Charlotte Today Show coincided over the holidays and we talked about visiting elderly loved ones during that time period. Caregiving at a distance can be difficult, stressful and time-consuming. And often the only time caregivers see the loved one is on a family visit,...