101 Avoiding Holiday Pitfalls with Aging Parents

Dr. K talks with Linda Fodrini-Johnson, a veteran geriatric care manager providing guidance in Dr. K s Helping Older Parents Membership Program. They discuss practical approaches to help families avoid common conflicts that come up during the holidays. They also discuss adapting the holidays for aging parents with dementia.
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In This Episode:

Dr. K talks with Linda Fodrini-Johnson, MA MFT CMC, a past president of the National Association of Geriatric Care Managers (now the Aging Life Care Association) and a featured expert providing guidance in Dr. K s Helping Older Parents Membership Program.

To help families have the best holidays possible, they discuss practical approaches to help families avoid common conflicts that come up during the holidays. They also discuss adapting the holidays for aging parents with dementia. Their talk includes:

What are geriatric care managers (also now known as aging life care professionals)
Why adult children should avoid telling their aging parents what they “should” do, and what to do instead
How to handle common causes of sibling conflict related to aging parents
How to learn more about what aging parents want for their future
What you can do if YOU are the older parent and your adult children are concerned
How to adapt the holidays so they work better for aging parents with dementia
What to do if an aging parent is showing signs of memory problems but hasn’t been diagnosed

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For more help with aging parents from Dr. Kernisan and Linda Fodrini-Johnson:

Learn more about the Helping Older Parents Membership
Give the gift of the Helping Older Parents Course or Membership

You can also get a PDF transcript of this episode, as our holiday gift to you: Click here for the Holidays with Aging Parents transcript!

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