Caring for Aging Parents with Stephanie Chan

Stephanie Chan is the founder and owner of two companies in the senior living industry, and she has a passion around helping seniors and family caregivers. Her first company Home to Home helps seniors and families with caregiving, health care, navigation transitions and care management. And her other company, myCareBase, helps families find and hire prescreened professional caregivers and then provides tools for the family caregivers to manage that care remotely. This is a topic that isn't really top of mind... until it is (has to be) and can be extremely triggering to deal with. Stephanie gives some practical advice based on her experience with her clients.

Listen to learn:

• Stephanie's origin story • biggest challenges for caretakers of the elderly • caretaker self-care • tips for caregivers • elder care modelling for your own kids • Stephanie's last piece of advice •

Discussion timecode:

00:00 - Intro

01:00 - Stephanie Chan's origin story

03:36 - Stephanie relates the biggest challenges faced by caretakers of aging parents

06:23 - Caretaker self-care: take care of yourself as you care for others

08:46 - Don't be scared to reach out for help

11:03 - Navigating the reality of role reversal in caring for your parents

12:28 - Stephanie's tips for caregivers

14:08 - Remember that your own kids are watching as you care for your parents

17:42 - Advice when kids live far from their parents

20:00 - Respect and help the sibling(s) local to your parents

21:47 - Stephanie's one last piece of advice

22:22 - Goodbye

Stephanie's company links:

https://www.home-to-home.ca

https://www.mycarebase.com

#eldercare #homecare  #seniorcare   #careplanning  #advancecareplanning  #familycaregivers

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