Creating Care Community with Kitty Norton
Happy Healthy Caregiver
Elizabeth Miller Featured on The Whole Care Network
5.0 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Kitty Norton left her job as an NBC assistant editor in Los Angeles in 2016, for her hometown of Portland, Oregon, to walk, stumble, crawl with her dementia mother to death’s door. While doing so, she authored the dementia caregiver blog Stumped Town Dementia, writing tales of dementia life which resonated deeply with readers around the world. After her mother's death, Kitty turned her storytelling talents to creating and directing the dementia family caregiver documentary, WINE, WOMEN, & DEMENTIA. The film honors this journey with her mother, increases awareness of the caregivers side of the equation in dementia, and celebrates family caregivers, letting them know they are not alone, and are worthy of being, seen, heard, and respected, alongside their person living with dementia, on this difficult road to the end of life.
We explore how Kitty built the care community she needed, why caregivers often start care businesses, and how she prioritized social and emotional self-care during 24/7 caregiving. Plus, find out why duct tape might belong in your caregiver toolbox!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Whole Care Network. |
| 0:09.8 | Helping you tell your story one podcast at a time. |
| 0:16.2 | Content presented in the following podcast is for information purposes only. |
| 0:22.7 | Views and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the host and guests |
| 0:28.0 | and may not represent the views and opinions of the Whole Care Network. |
| 0:33.1 | Always consult with your physician for any medical advice. |
| 0:36.7 | And always consult with your attorney for any legal advice and always consult with your attorney for any |
| 0:39.2 | legal advice. And thank you for listening to the Whole Care Network. |
| 0:53.1 | We're not close to a cure, so what do we have instead? |
| 0:56.9 | We have community. |
| 0:58.4 | So let's bolster our community because we are who we have. |
| 1:05.2 | Caring for aging parents or other loved ones while working, raising children, and trying to live your own life, |
| 1:11.3 | wondering how to find the time for your personal health and happiness? |
| 1:14.6 | Well, you're in the right place. |
| 1:16.2 | Welcome to the Happy Healthy Caregiver Podcast, to show where real family caregivers |
| 1:21.3 | share how to be happy and healthy while caring for others. |
| 1:24.5 | Now here's your host, Family caregiver, and certified caregiving consultant, |
| 1:29.2 | Elizabeth Miller. Hello, thanks for tuning to the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, which is part of |
| 1:36.9 | the Whole Care Network. If this is your first time listening and trying out this show, |
| 1:41.1 | welcome. So glad that you are here. This show is produced biweekly to help |
| 1:46.0 | family caregivers integrate self-care and caregiving into their lives. Each episode has an |
| 1:51.7 | accompanying show notes page. We want to fast track you to the resources that could help you. So if you |
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