Caregiving Gen X Style

Caregiving Guilt

Guilt is a sign that you care, because if you didn't give a hoot then you wouldn't bother feeling guilty.  Caregiver guilt is no exception to this, and it's something all of us who care for our parents deal with at some point or another.  In this new episode, Jennifer and Steve go on a guilt trip.
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Caregiving Quick Hits

In this episode, Jennifer and Steve tackle three shorter topics: problems with secondary caregivers, caregiving versus caretaking, and toxic positivity.
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Caregiving Helpers

Caregiving is hard. No one who has ever taken care of another human being will disagree with that statement. In this new episode, Jennifer and Steve talk about the people who can be your caregiving helpers.
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Control Issues

The elderly parents we GenXers care for are all so very different, but one of the nearly universal things they deal with is loss of control. In this episode, Jennifer and Steve tackle the problem and provide some advice on how to mitigate it.
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Technology Struggles

When tech devices and older folks collide, frustration can begin.  We wanted to call this episode, "Technology is a double-edged sword, and sometimes you want to jab it into your head" but that seemed too long. Listen as Jennifer and Steve discuss some of the frustrations that technology has bought to their caregiving lives, and what they've done about it.
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Caregiving Advocacy

In this episode, Jennifer and Steve tackle the difficult subject of what to do when you feel like your elderly parent has been wronged.  They give examples of a situation when they lost the battle, when they won the battle, and when advocacy just made things awkward.
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Nightmare of Cleaning Out, Part 2

In this second part of our two-part series on cleaning out your elderly loved one's home to move them elsewhere, we talk with our guest, Meredith McNamee from Legacy Estate Sales.  We laugh, we cry (well, Jennifer does) and we learn more about what it takes to completely empty a home.
Legacy Estate Sales: https://www.estatesales.net/companies/VA/Richmond/23235/127430
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Nightmare of Cleaning Out, Part 1

Alternately called "The Day of the 47 Pairs of Pants," this is the first of a two-part episode on the nightmare that is cleaning out your loved one's home in order to move them to a facility or to your home.  In this first part, we talk about how to sort through all of their stuff in order to determine what will come with your loved one, and how to find a way to make it fit in her new smaller surroundings.  Also, Jennifer's Tea Pot PTSD gets triggered again.
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Expect the Food to Suck

The words "hospital food" don't exactly bring to mind the idea of a culinary masterpiece, and for good reason.  In this episode, Jennifer and Steve discuss the questionable food your loved one may be served in all of the different facilities where they might stay, and what you can do about it.
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Caregiving Cautionary Tale

In this episode, Steve and Jennifer tell the story of an "incident" with Steve's mom that taught them more lessons than they could have imagined, including why you shouldn't trust Life Alert.
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