Welcome to the Retire with Purpose podcast, a show specifically designed to help free retirees and retirees maximize their financial confidence.

Casey Wheat is a certified financial planner and president of Howard Bailey Financial.

His newest book, Job Optional, is a Wall Street

Journal bestseller and is available now on Amazon and at Retirewithpurpose.com. He's your host on

retire with purpose. Hey, I'm Casey, and I believe in retirement strategies that are driven by

meaning and purpose. Join me this week and every week as we discuss thoughts and ideas

with some of today's foremost experts in the field of finance and retirement, as well as discussing

trending topics that could impact your bottom line. These discussions can help you make

better financial decisions so you can live the lifestyle you've always imagined and deserved.

Welcome to the show.

Today, I'm speaking with Linda Fadreini Johnson.

Linda has been a geriatric care manager and aging life care expert for nearly 40 years, one of the most well recognized in

the industry. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified care manager

working to help families avoid potholes and misinformation and ultimately find peace in the

course of family caregiving. In her book, The Empowered Caregiver, she provides adult

children of aging parents with ideas, lists, scripts for touchy conversations, critical questions

for doctors and lawyers, and other resources collected over the course of her career. In our

conversation, Linda and I discuss how her own struggles with aging parents

and caregiving transformed her life and career, how to de-stress your life as your parents get

older, and her valuable insights on how to deal with a parent that is suffering from Alzheimer's

or dementia. One more thing before we get started, we have a bunch of copies of Linda's book,

The Empowered Caregiver, Practical Advice and Emotional Support for Adult Children of Aging

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