#230: Eldercare Advice for “Sandwiched” Mother Runners
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Sarah and co-host Adrienne Martini veer off the typical trail to discuss eldercare advice - a topic that’ll affect pretty much every mother runner out there at some point (“An age-tsunami is coming!” proclaims the guest). They welcome Alana Russell, a licensed clinical social worker who has worked in geriatrics for nearly two decades. Sarah and Adrienne bring a personal perspective to this conversation, as they are both actively dealing with care options for elderly parents. Alana shares loads of practical advice, as well as several humorous anecdotes—including where her own parents store their Do Not Resuscitate orders and when her family members choose to share their end-of-life wishes. The mother runners talk about the importance of senior citizen’s self-determination and caregivers developing a united front. Find out why vacuuming is over-rated. Alana recommends numerous resources, including the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging and a network of geriatric care professionals (re-branded as...
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| 0:18.0 | Geographic restrictions and Ties and Ties and Sies apply 18 plus. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. I am joined today by |
| 0:35.0 | Adrian Martini. Hey Sarah, how are you? Or should I say Bonacera? Yes, you should because you are fresh off the plane from Italy. |
| 0:46.3 | Yes, italy. |
| 0:48.3 | You lucky woman, you. |
| 0:50.3 | Oh my goodness. So tell us about you ripped your kids out of school just days after it started. |
| 0:57.0 | They had one day of school. |
| 1:00.0 | No. Yes, seriously, one day. |
| 1:03.0 | And see I didn't pick the dates. |
| 1:06.8 | They were picked by family members who don't actually have kids. |
| 1:10.1 | Oh, that explains a lot then. |
| 1:11.8 | Yep. |
| 1:13.0 | So what it was was a family trip, extended family, to Florence and then a small town in Tuscany |
| 1:21.0 | called Volpiah, which you would have no reason to have heard of. |
| 1:27.8 | And then my husband and I ditched our kids with the six other adults that were there and took a oh not even 36 hours in |
| 1:38.0 | Venice nice so it was beyond amazing pretty much. |
| 1:43.2 | Now you had been to Italy before or no? |
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