Aisha Adkins is an only child caring for her parents. Her mom has Frontal Temporal Dementia and her dad has suffered multiple strokes. Aisha’s career is the Constituency Organizer for Caring Across Generations. She is a storyteller, advocate, international speaker and passionate about building an equitable, inclusive, and comprehensive public health and care infrastructure. When she is not trying to affect positive systemic change, she enjoys classic film, live music, and the great outdoors.
In this episode, we talk about the nuances of being a young caregiver and only child, small yet impactful care advocacy steps can we take, community care, acceptance, managing expectations, and sipping tea.
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Links & Resources Mentioned
- We are grateful for our listeners helping to expand our audience by sharing the podcast and submitting ratings and reviews! It’s easy to do just go to: Podcast Review or Google Review
- Aisha was on The Hill and expanded on her activist role
- Build Back Better Bill
- Meals on Wheels
- “There are only four kinds of people in the world – those who have been caregivers, those who are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers.” – Rosalynn Carter
- Importance of sharing your story as form of advocacy-related post: Care Fellowship Program
- Aisha’s hiatus from social media
- Aspiring tea connoisseur – Teabloom Glass Teapot
- Butterfly Pea Tea – it’s blue!
- 80s throwback TV, Designing Women
- This Is Us cast talking about the final season
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- All of the prompts from the lightning round segment of the show are borrowed from Elizabeth’s book Just For You: a Daily Self-Care Journal. The journal is also now available as a digital download.
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