Elder Care Essentials with Expert Lauren Smith
Best of Both Worlds Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This has been a much-requested topic - how do we support our family members who may be growing older and needing more help while still in the busy kid-years?
Lauren Smith is a gerontologist and licensed nursing home administrator, currently working as a consultant working with multiple healthcare entities to plan for emergencies; she is also a mother of 3 (ages 3, 6, & 8). Lauren shares lots of wisdom from what she has observed in families over the years, and discusses strategies for navigating this difficult life stage.
In the Q&A, a listener writes in asking for guidance in dealing with "non-work, non-urgent unappealing tasks" -- she struggles and ends up putting them off week after week.
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| 0:28.4 | listening. Terms apply. Hi, this is Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, |
| 0:37.9 | and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker. |
| 0:43.9 | And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of three, a practicing physician, and blogger on the side. |
| 0:49.2 | We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. |
| 0:55.1 | Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most out of life. |
| 1:02.3 | Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This is episode 263, which is airing in mid-August of |
| 1:09.1 | 2022. Sarah is going to be interviewing elder care expert |
| 1:13.5 | Lauren Smith. This is definitely a topic we have had requested a lot. I mean, probably because it is |
| 1:18.5 | so universal, right? Sarah, I mean, obviously, we are all going to grow older at some point, |
| 1:23.8 | but I know many of our listeners are more immediately dealing with this with parents and in-laws |
| 1:29.0 | who are getting older and may be requiring some decisions to be made and how you navigate that |
| 1:36.2 | process, right? Yeah. I mean, I would say not everybody experiences this because unfortunately |
| 1:41.5 | some people might have, you know, been estranged from their family or had family that passes earlier, something like that. |
| 1:47.4 | But most of us have to kind of go through this and see our older loved ones go through different stages of independence or medical complexities, et cetera. |
| 1:58.1 | And I definitely don't consider myself an expert yet, especially because I don't feel like |
| 2:02.8 | I've hit the part where things really kind of heat up and become difficult. But I certainly |
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