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Happy Healthy Caregiver Podcast. Episode 135: Helping the Working Caregiving Crisis with Debbie Howard

Meet former family caregiver Debbie Howard. Debbie lived and worked in Japan for 30+ years. Debbie is also a former caregiver on a mission to change the way the world looks at caregiving so the impacts are not so devastating. Her work focuses on providing companies with support programs for employee caregivers to mitigate the related risks of absentee-ism, employee turnover, and extra healthcare costs.

In this episode, we dive into this topic and we also chat about how caregiving was a transformational experience for Debbie, how she shared the care with her sisters while keeping her own business running, the concept of joy journaling, and how simple steps can have ripple effect on lasting change.

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“To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.” – Chinese Proverb #CaregiverJar

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Favorite moments & quotes from the episode

‘Even in the best cases, this is an incredibly difficult job. So we want to be especially mindful of how much harder it is on people who don’t have any resources.’ – Debbie Howard @debbiethecarer #caregiving

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‘30% of every workforce in America is a caregiver…I believe the companies are a fabulous point to distribute information and training about caregiving.’ – Debbie Howard @debbiethecarer #workingcaregiver

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‘I see my job as making sure that the caregivers of older adults are in the line for benefits and help.’ – – Debbie Howard @debbiethecarer #workingdaughter #caregiver

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