"Brick By Brick Bonding – Tools for Family Care: Bonding Activities for Seniors Living with Alzheimer’s and Dementia and Their Care Partners"

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Education, Health & Fitness

5.0 • 88 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome Patty Sherin & Laura Herman as guests to the show to discuss their book "Brick by Brick Bonding Tool for Family Care: Bonding Activities for Seniors Living with Alzheimer's and Dementia and Their Care Partners."

About the Book:

Brick By Brick Bonding – Tools for Family Care: Bonding Activities for Seniors Living with Alzheimer’s and Dementia and Their Care Partners is the first book to introduce LEGO® Duplo® bricks and pieces to care partners and their carees living with Alzheimer’s and dementia with techniques and tools to embrace self-care, develop good support systems, release expectations, and practice mindful acceptance.

About Patty Sherin:

As a Certified Caregiving Consultant and creator of Brick By Brick Bonding™, she understands the fatigues and challenges that plague caregivers and has found strategies to help throughout the caregiving journey. When Patty Sherin is not spreading hope and creativity to her friends and family, she likes to use her superpowers to encourage family caregivers to bring joy and laughter to their carees living with Alzheimer’s and dementia using LEGO® bricks and pieces.

About Laura Herman:

Laura has spent years working with older adults with dementia, their caregivers and family members. Throughout her career, she has served seniors in just about every role, from direct caregiver to memory care facility administrator. Laura is especially passionate about helping others understand and communicate better with people with dementia and really enjoys coaching family caregivers directly.

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0:00.0	Welcome to all home care matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions
0:06.7	on important age-related matters and topics. Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services,
0:13.3	the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top-rated Local.
0:24.2	Hello, and Rated Local. Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters.
0:26.5	If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today.
0:31.5	We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters something that
0:37.8	will hopefully matter to you today we are honored to welcome two remarkable guests patty sharon and
0:44.2	laura herman welcome thank you for having us yeah so happy to be here our pleasure it's a pleasure
0:52.5	and an honor to be on your channel.
0:55.8	Thank you.
0:56.1	Thank you.
0:56.7	Well, thank you for your time.
0:58.4	So, guys, let's kind of start with a little background.
1:00.9	How did the two of you come together to write this book?
1:06.6	Well, Patty actually wrote the book initially. And so when she and I met on LinkedIn, we ended up kind of collaborating from there. But Patty's got such a great story about how she came to initially get to the point of writing the book. It sounds like a great place to start.
1:34.3	Awesome. Thank you. Yeah, for decades, I worked at a job where I was miserable, but I had no choice. Today I have a job I love, but the people I work with have no choice.
1:38.3	Along the way, I've learned many, many important lessons.
1:41.3	I became a single mom when my daughter was less than two years old.
1:45.9	I was fortunate to get a $25 an hour job at an investment bank in New York City, but the job I did
1:51.4	wasn't very fulfilling. But I had great benefits, so I kept working there. When my daughter was no
1:57.8	longer on my health insurance, I quit my job. Now I work, I don't fit into anyone else's template.
2:03.6	I moved from New York to California, and now I live in Central Oregon, and I chose a new profession.
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