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Caregiving can turn your retirement plans upside down

12/22/2022

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Here's a great article to read that gives eight tips on how to provide assistance — and help yourself, if you are experiencing caring for a loved one while retired or are anticipating this scenario in the near future.
This quick read, written by Richard Eisenberg, hits on some of those high points and gives a bit of healthy advice in the process.
Read article here
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Setting Healthy Boundaries in Relationships

10/19/2022

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October 26, 2022 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST | Online
 
Maintaining a balance between taking care of loved ones and setting healthy boundaries for yourself can be challenging. Learn how to express your own needs without guilt, strike a healthy balance between caregiving and self-care, and tips for negotiating compromises with a licensed therapist.
 
Fine print: Certificates of attendance are provided at no cost. CEUs are not provided. Everyone who registers will receive the webinar recording & resource info 24 hours after the live event.
 
About the instructor: Jaymi Dormaier is a Licensed Master Social Worker with ten years of experience in the mental health field. In Jaymi's career as a social worker and therapist she has worked with diverse populations focusing on anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, foster care, adoption, homelessness, and addiction. She is passionate about helping others live a life they love.
 
To register for this webinar, click the button below.
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Cooking for Your Loved One

9/27/2022

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Three in four adults more than 65 years of age have two or more chronic conditions that can limit day-to-day functioning. If an older adult is not able to grocery shop or cook meals, these tasks fall on the caregiver. In 2015, 76% of caregivers helped their loved one with grocery shopping and 61% helped with cooking meals. As a result, the caregiver’s dietary habits will impact their loved one’s diet. In other words, if the caregiver eats poorly (non-nutritious foods), so will their loved one, typically resulting in poorer health.
Click the button below to learn more from Oklahoma State University's Extension Program...

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Dementia Information Series

9/7/2022

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September 14, 2022 through November 2, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM PST | Online - FREE
 
The Dementia Information Series is a comprehensive 8-week series on Wednesday evenings is designed for families who are caring for a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer's disease. You can understand the disease, learn how it affects your relative, how to access support in the home and community, how to cope, and how to communicate.
 
Register as early as possible to reserve a spot for this popular education event.
 
To register for this event, click the button below.
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How to Help a Parent Who Is the Primary Caregiver

8/28/2022

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Caring for an older family member often requires teamwork. A primary caregiver — especially a parent — may be hesitant to ask for help or a break. A few ways you can help are:
  • Provide emotional and moral support. Acknowledge how important the caregiver has been and discuss the physical and emotional effects of caregiving. Just listening may not sound like much help, but often it is.
  • Offer to arrange for respite care. Respite care will give your parent a break from caregiving responsibilities and an opportunity to care for themselves.
  • Help coordinate a move to assisted living or a nursing home. In time, the person receiving care may have to move to a residential facility. If that happens, you can help your parent by selecting a facility that fits everybody’s needs.
Click the button below to learn more about supporting a parent with caregiving responsibilities.
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What I Learned When I Became My Parents' Caregiver

8/19/2022

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I didn’t volunteer to become a caregiver to my elderly parents. Instead, I was slowly initiated into the role. It started by doing little things to help. Even though they were in their mid-eighties, they insisted on staying in Pensacola, Fla., their home of 50 years. Since I lived in Virginia, I called twice a week to check on them and shopped for them online. With each visit, I tried to notice things that would tell me if they were doing all right.
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August - Make-a-Will Month

8/1/2022

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Drafting a will is an important task that everyone should complete. Be sure to do your research to figure out what's right for you and your family. FreeWill is one online option to help you make your will - and its free. 
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How to Share Caregiving Responsibilities with Family Members

7/4/2022

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Caring for an older family member often requires teamwork. While one sibling might be local and take on most of the everyday caregiving responsibilities, a long-distance caregiver can also have an important role.
 
As a long-distance caregiver, you can provide important respite to the primary caregiver and support to the aging family member.
 
To learn more, click on the button below.
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Caregiving for Children and Elderly Parents Can Strain Women Professionals

6/24/2022

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One of the defining moments of Karen Bond’s professional career came about five years ago. “For years, I had worked really hard to become president of Executive Alliance,” she said of the nonprofit dedicated to helping professional women succeed in leadership roles.
 
At the time, Bond was taking care of her mother who had dementia along with being a mother to her daughter and having a thriving professional career. “The day of our Women of Excellence luncheon, that I had always dreamed that my mother would be able to be there and see that achievement, was the day that my caregiver didn’t show up and I was scheduled to be in front of a thousand women. I barely got there in time.”
 
Caregiving can be extremely challenging for professional women as many must juggle their careers with motherhood and with their elderly parents/relatives. While home health care aides can help, a majority of women take on the caregiving responsibility themselves.
 
 From: The Daily Record (Maryland)
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RELAX: Alternatives to Anger for Parents and Caregivers

6/23/2022

 
July 14, 2022 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 PM PST | Online
 
Hosted by Michigan State University, this interactive workshop for parents and those who provide care for young children is designed to help adults increase their knowledge about anger and strong emotion in young children and the developmental stages of social emotional self-control. Parents and caregivers will learn what anger is and what triggers anger, explore ways to practice and reinforce positive communication skills, and learn methods of incorporating children’s literature into the process of teaching problem solving skills.
 
Facilitator: Georgina Guzman, perrygeo@msu.edu.
 
This workshop is free.
 
Attendees must register by July 13. Click the button below to do so.
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