Caring For Aging Parents Is Brutal | What You Need To Know - 1039
The Chalene Show | Diet, Fitness & Life Balance
Chalene Johnson
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Caring for aging parents can be so stressful and complicated! How do you handle all of the complex family dynamics during this season of your life?
Join Chalene Johnson in this episode of The Chalene Show Podcast as she empowers caregivers facing the complexities of caring for aging parents. Explore the emotional challenges of the sandwich generation and gain valuable insights from Chalene's personal experiences. Learn how to initiate essential conversations about end-of-life plans and wishes with aging parents, focusing on proactive planning, using open-ended questions, and deciphering family dynamics in caregiving. Tune in to discover ways to navigate this life stage while reducing the burden on your family.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm saying this right now to my children, don't move me into your home, |
| 0:03.3 | don't keep me alive longer than I need to be, like please, |
| 0:06.3 | I don't know what kind of a pill you need to slip into my water bottle, but slip it in. |
| 0:10.9 | Because I'm not having some stranger changing my diapers. I am not going to be |
| 0:17.1 | living in a home where someone is not putting in like my little hair extensions and |
| 0:21.2 | putting my makeup on or giving me lashes every day no I don't |
| 0:24.2 | want to live that way. One or both of your parents are getting older things are |
| 0:28.4 | getting complicated stressful overwhelming and you don't know what to do. |
| 0:32.0 | Hey you're not alone. |
| 0:33.8 | It's so weird when like one day you look at your parents |
| 0:35.7 | and you realize like it feels like overnight |
| 0:38.5 | they suddenly became old people. |
| 0:41.0 | Do you know what I'm saying? |
| 0:41.9 | And it's a very complicated, sometimes very |
| 0:44.5 | overwhelming season of your life. In today's episode I'm going to talk to you |
| 0:49.6 | about the realistic expectations like what you're going through how to quiet some of the |
| 0:54.8 | overwhelm some of the things you need to think about some of the things that you might be |
| 0:58.4 | going through and in hopes that I can make things a little bit easier for you. My hope is that with the |
| 1:03.9 | information that I'm going to share with you today in my own personal |
| 1:06.0 | experience that I can make life a little bit easier for you in this very trying time. |
| 1:14.0 | Hey, my name is Shelene Johnson. Welcome to the Shelene Show where today the reason why we're talking about this is because so many of you are in this season. |
| 1:20.0 | Number one, we're keeping our loved ones alive longer. |
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