Financial self-care is about developing spending and saving habits that will set you and your family up for future financial success. Below are the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast episodes and blog posts sharing ideas to help you with your financial self-care.
Podcast & IG Live Episodes
Caregiver Recovery
Christina Keys was living the American dream until one day in March of 2013, her mom had a life-changing stroke. Within 3 years of caregiving for her mom Pat, Christina was financially, emotionally, and mentally bankrupt. Her doctors told her that the stress of caregiving was literally killing her. Christina took action to make a different choice and turned her caregiving co-dependent mess into a message. In this episode of the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, Christina shares a few of her priceless caregiving stories, reveals her first act of self-care, explains how she redefined normal and introduces the vibrant community she is building to help family caregivers locate the keys to a successful caregiving life.
Paying for Long Term Care
Meet family caregiver Jason van den Brand, who managed end-of-life care for his grandmother and father for over eight years. This experience led him to start his own company, Wellahead, which helps families get matched with the best way to pay for long-term care. In this episode, we talk about how Jason managed care from a 3,000-mile distance, how his family paid for long-term care for his family members, why millions of dollars in veterans benefits for care goes unused, why you shouldn’t wait to use long-term care insurance, what to avoid when paying for care, how owning your a home provides long term care payment options for consideration, and how his family values posted in his office inform how he celebrates his successes.
Medicaid Help
Ben Mandelbaum grew up in a home along with his 14 siblings where he witnessed his Mom caring for his great grandmother, and then his grandmother. Ben was also part of his dad’s care team – his dad passed from ALS earlier this year. Ben’s background is in finance for skilled nursing communities. In this episode, we talk about living life while caring for others, the difference between Medicare and Medicaid, what benefits Medicaid can help families with, and how his company NavigAid can help guide and support you through the Medicaid application process.
Other episodes
- End of Life Decision Making – Kimberly Whiter
- Estate Planning with Catherine Hodder
- The Important Documents You Need with Cathy Sikorski
- End of Life Decision Making with Karen Purze
Articles and Event Replays
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Financial Aids
Books
- Financial Peace by Dave Ramsey
- Estate Planning for the Sandwich Generation by Catherine Hodder Esq.
- How to Care for Aging Parents by Virginia Morris
Other Caregiving Financial Resources
Caregiver Compensation
- The Family Caregiver Alliance offers a state-by-state list of programs. Select your state and then select ‘Caregiver Compensation’.
- Seniorlink’s article: How to Become a Paid Caregiver for a Family member: 6 Steps to Uncovering Financial Assistance Options for Family Caregivers
- Genworth’s Cost of Care Calculator for your zip code can provide a high-level estimate of what long term may cost.
- Use your skills to become a Certified Caregiving Consultant, Facilitator, or Educator and/or Caregiving.com Champion.
- Earn some spending money by registering with Rare Patient Voice to get paid for sharing your opinions. Researchers recognize that the true disease experts are those living with a condition and their family caregivers. You may be asked to share your thoughts on improving medical products and services.
Help with Caregiving Expenses
- Elder Care Solutions, Inc. will help outline what options are available to you to pay for long term care – use HappyHealthyCaregiving20 to save 20%
- Help Hope Live is a non-profit organization offering community-based fundraising for unmet medical expenses and related costs.
- Veterans Affairs Caregiver Support Programs.
- FACT Relief helps with fundraising tools and guidance.
Other Services
- Mediation and conflict coaching services.
- My Data Diary – Family Information Management Software (‘HAPPYHEALTHY’ for FREE Intro Version and 15% off)
