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I am a Working Family Caregiver

You are a working family caregiver if you are managing a career or job on top of caring for your care recipient.

According to the Caregiving in the US report, 61% of the 53 million family caregivers in the US also work.

Podcast Episodes

Happy Healthy Caregiver Podcast, Episode 180: Messy Caregiving with Sisters Natalie and JJ

Messy Caregiving

Natalie Elliott Handy and JJ Elliott Hill are sisters. Together, along with a third sister Emilie, they manage care for their mom who is living with Parkinson’s disease. Natalie is also a caregiver for her spouse, Jason, who receives palliative care to help navigate his cancer journey. In this episode, we discuss all the total messiness around family caregiving. We talk about letting go of perfectionism, getting access to your parent’s finances, the benefits of palliative care, and they both confess their guilty pleasures.

Happy Healthy Caregiver Podcast, Episode 178: Paying for Long Term Care with Jason van den Brand

Paying for Long Term Care

Jason van den Brand 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.

Happy Healthy Caregiver Podcast, Episode 176: Remote and Long-Distance Caregiving with Paula Muller

Remote and Long-Distance Caregiving

Paula Muller helped care for her grandmother and has a lifelong passion for technology applied to healthcare. Paula grew up in Chile and was very close to her grandmother and remains close to her mother. Her passions for family and technology came together in her product that we learn about called CareLink360. In this episode we discuss the caregiver guilt that comes with living from a distance from those requiring care, ideas to create connection with verbal and non-verbal care recipients, methods to infuse joy and energy into life, and ways technology can be a part of a caregiver’s care team.

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