Christina Keys, Family Caregiver, Director of Community Growth at Caregiving.com, Co-Founder and President of Non-Profit Loving Them Forward
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome a Christina Keys as a guest to the show.
Christina Keys chased the American dream. She had a successful career, traveled, was financially stable, healthy and happy then on March 16,2013 at 3:42 everything changed. Her mother had a life changing stroke and was given 1% chance to live. She instantly went from career woman to caregiver. Within 4 years of caregiving for her mother she was financially, emotionally, mentally and physically bankrupt.
The doctors told Christina She would be lucky to live 6 months if that. Her body was literally shutting down from the stress of caregiving and trying to do it alone. She had a choice to make, figure out how to change her life and live while caring for her mother or give up and start making arrangements on how her mother would be cared for after her death. She chooses to live and not only change her life but now helps to change the lives of caregivers who struggle while caring for loved ones.
She is also a caregiver for her Ex boyfriend. Turning a mess into a message and making it her mission to make sure caregivers everywhere are seen, heard valued and appreciated and are Never Alone through her local work with Loving Them Forward the Non Profit she founded and the national work she is doing with Caregiving.com
Watch the national documentary highlighting what life is like for family caregivers called "The Love of Care.":
Visit Caregiving.com to apple to become a caregiving.com Champion: https://www.caregiving.com/about/champions/join
Visit Non-Profit Loving Them Forward:
https://www.lovingthemforward.org
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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. |
| 0:25.6 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking |
| 0:29.6 | time out to be with us today. |
| 0:30.6 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here |
| 0:35.6 | at All Home Care care matters, something that |
| 0:37.9 | will hopefully matter to you. Today, we have a very special guest, Christina Keys, family caregiver, |
| 0:45.0 | director of community growth at caregiving.com, and the co-founder and president of the nonprofit |
| 0:51.4 | loving them forward. Welcome, Christina. It's such an honor to be here. |
| 0:56.7 | Thank you so much for having me. Our pleasure. And we're really looking forward to sharing |
| 1:02.3 | your story because you have such a heart and such a passion that, you know, it really |
| 1:08.5 | just comes across even just in a brief conversation that we had previously |
| 1:12.6 | for helping family caregivers because you have lived it and you're living it now with your ex-boyfriend. |
| 1:19.7 | Why don't you kind of walk us through what that journey was first like when you were |
| 1:24.5 | caregiving for your mother? |
| 1:26.9 | Okay, sure. Well, my caregiving story is a lot like so many |
| 1:31.2 | of the other caregivers out there. Life was good. I was very successful in my career. I had a 20-year |
| 1:37.8 | tech career and I did everything my parents told me to do. Chase the American Dream, get a job, |
| 1:42.9 | make it into a career put money in your |
| 1:44.6 | 401k buy a home i did all of those things and um on march 16th of 2013 my mother had a life |
| 1:53.1 | changing stroke um she was in the ICU for 30 days in the hospital for god probably close to close to four or five months. And they gave her |
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