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Taking Care of Your Aging Parents

By: Michelle Seitzer, The Great Courses
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For most of us, caregiving for aging parents is brand-new territory we don’t get much time to prepare for. But while the experience is scary and exhausting, it can also be a rewarding time filled with moments that bring deep joy and fulfillment, and a stronger relationship with the people who cared for you when you needed it most.

Michelle Seitzer knows this well. Her varied experiences—caring for four younger siblings, a grandfather, and a special needs child; being cared for by her husband when she had cancer; extensive work in the healthcare space—have given her a lifetime of tips, resources, strategies, and advice. And in this compassionate Audible Original, she shares them all with you.

Think of Taking Care of Your Aging Parents as a conversation with a trusted friend who’s already walked this path, and now wants to help you navigate (or prepare for) your own caregiving experience. These six lectures are full of practical, foundational content about everything from Medicare to advanced directives to creative ideas for self-care in your free moments. What are the five kinds of emotional curveballs you might experience as a caregiver for your parents? How can you build an effective caretaking team of doctors, mediators, and community-based services? How should you approach difficult topics like medical diagnoses or moving a parent out of their home?

Regardless of the specific obstacles ahead of you and your aging parents, this is a powerful, inspirational guide to finding your way through them.

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About the Creator and Performer

Michelle Seitzer has been writing since she was old enough to hold a pencil. Her first love has always been words, and she’s had hundreds of articles published online and in print magazines to prove it. She’s a managing editor and contributor for several prominent health care brands, and she’s a subject matter expert in aging and caregiving issues. Michelle is also the founder of Caregiving Advice, a free resource hub for caregivers of all ages. She self-published her first book, The Dictionary of Grandparents, in the spring of 2023. A caregiver, entrepreneur, and breast cancer survivor, Michelle lives in Pennsylvania with her family, and loves to collect books and honorary grandparents. Find out more at michelleseitzer.com or caregivingadvice.com.

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Lots of holes in content

If you are looking for more reminders to take care of yourself while caregiving or how not to beat yourself up over your perceived failings, this Chicken Soup For The Caregiver Soul-like book is for you.
If you are looking for concrete steps with background explanations, this book won’t help much. I am still confused over the author’s advice to “clean out the bathroom and linens” of a passed loved one before addressing/securing valuables. And no mention of locking down the credit of a terminal family member as soon as possible to avoid identity theft? I would have appreciated much more advice on how to care for a parent without infantilizing them, even when said parent has become like a terrible teenager or worse, a two year old.

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immensely practical, immediately useful.

as a general internist, I saw the agencies she mentioned and others to be similarly helpful to my elderly patients, long before they were optimism based on the confidence,she acquired from coordinating patient care.

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Difficult Topic yet Necessary

I wish that I had taken the time to research and become acquainted with this topic before I lost three parents.
The information is very helpful as we encounter failing health with our friends and family members. I will have it in my library now!

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