Advance Directive in Place – Dying More Peaceful A Belgian study suggests that when a person has an advanced directive in place, dying is more peaceful. Advance care planning is considered a central component of good quality palliative care and especially relevant for people who lose the capacity to make decisions at the end...
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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...
Aging Info Radio – 65 is the new 40 – Smilecast 55
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...