025: Caregivers Need Not Sacrifice It All with Cathy Sikorski
She Handled It! with Arwen Becker
English - January 26, 2021 22:00 - 41 minutes - 30.6 MBSelf-Improvement Education Business arwen empowerment friend inspiration inspirationalstories mother adversity arwenbecker challenges determined Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
When Cathy Sikorski became caregiver for both her two-year-old daughter and her 92-year-old grandmother, she felt like she’d become trapped in an alternate universe. If her daughter took a snack from the dog’s dish one morning, her grandmother would do the exact same thing, then say, “Well, she’s doing it.”
Cathy has been a practicing and consulting elder law attorney for over 30 years, with a special focus in financial and legal preparation in the aging crisis. She’s the author of Showering With Nana: Confessions Of A Serial (killer)… Caregiver and the Amazon bestseller Who Moved My Teeth?: Preparing For Self, Loved Ones, And Caregiving. Cathy has made many television, radio, and podcast appearances, and her work has been featured by the Huffington Post, AARP, and Women's Media Center in Washington, DC. She also serves on the board of directors of Nancy's House, a nonprofit dedicated to respite for caregivers.
Today, Cathy joins the podcast to talk about how hard caregiving can be, especially for women. She shares the story of what happened when she became a caregiver for eight different family members over 25 years, why so many caregivers end up below the poverty line in old age, and the plans to make right now to protect yourself decades down the line.
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Know you’re doing the best you can. You are not giving yourself enough credit. Ask for help. If you are a caregiver, you are definitely a person who probably isn’t going to ask for help because you’re a take charge person, but you’ve got to do that. Pay attention to how caregiving is going to affect you financially in the future.Show Notes
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