Debra Hallisey - Former Caregiver, Author, & Founder of Advocare for Mom and Dad
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome a remarkable advocate for caregivers & author, Debra Hallisey as guest to the show.
Debra Hallisey is a past caregiver who lost her job due to caregiving. As a result, she founded her company Advocate for Mom and Dad. Deb writes on caregiving issues for adult children of aging parents at her website www.AdvocateforMomandDad.com which has consistently been named one of the top 50 caregiver blogs and featured in Aging Insider.
Her caregiving insights have been featured in articles, blog posts, podcasts and video chats. As an advocate for family caregivers, she works with them to effectively communicate with their caree, other family members and the healthcare system. Deb is the author of Your Caregiver Relationship Contract. The book, available in both English and Spanish: Su Contrato de relación como cuidador de un ser querido, is a practical, step-by-step guide for discussing relationship issues that arise between caregivers and their care partners.
She uses personal stories to illustrate how these techniques healed her relationship with her mother. And A Relationship Contract for Dementia Caregivers, which provides the reader with practical knowledge and necessary steps at each stage of the disease, to continuously adapt your practices and expectations to meet the needs of the person you care for and, more importantly, your own needs as the disease progresses.
Deb is a regional speaker for ARTIS Senior Living and has been a guest speaker and trainer for a variety of organizations including The Care Years Academy, Northwell Hospital System, The Parkinson Foundation of Oklahoma and United Way. Deb is a Certified Caregiving Consultant™, Certified Caregiving Educator, Certified Caregiving Facilitator and Certified Dementia Practitioner®.
She holds an MA in Leadership and Supervision.
Connect with Debra Hallisey: Official Website: https://www.AdvocateforMomandDad.com
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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. |
| 0:23.5 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:25.9 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for |
| 0:29.1 | taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:31.1 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each |
| 0:34.9 | episode here at All Home Care Matters, something that will hopefully matter to you. |
| 0:39.3 | Today, we are honored to welcome Deborah Halassie, the founder of Advocate for Mom and Dad and Author. |
| 0:46.2 | Welcome, Deborah. How are you today? |
| 0:48.3 | I'm great, Liz. Thank you for inviting me. I really appreciate our time together. |
| 0:52.7 | Absolutely. Well, it's our pleasure. |
| 0:54.7 | So, Deborah, you were a former caregiver also. |
| 0:58.7 | I was for nine years. Nine years. And that was for mom and dad or just? |
| 1:03.8 | It was actually for both. It was about a year for my dad. He had been diagnosed with congestive heart |
| 1:09.1 | failure. And he was my mom's caregiver because |
| 1:11.9 | she was legally blind with mobility issues. And when he died, I became her caregiver. And just lost |
| 1:20.8 | her last November after eight years with her. So yeah, long time. Yeah. So what was it about that experience that had propelled you to the advocacy and the work that you're doing now through your company and through your books? |
| 1:37.3 | You know, it's really funny. It was my mom. I lost my job due to caregiving issues. We can get into that if we want to, |
| 1:49.2 | but that was really the bottom line. And it's my mom, we were talking about that, and it's my mom |
| 1:56.5 | who said to me, I'd been her caregiver for about six or seven months for the time I lost my |
| 2:01.8 | job. And she's the one that said to me, you know, you have learned so much, you should |
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