Julia Yarbough How Caring for Her Mom Led to the Creation of Keeping it REAL Caregiving

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Education, Health & Fitness

5.0 • 88 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome Julia Yarbough as a guest to the show. Julia is the creator of Keeping it REAL Caregiving.

Prior to the creation of Keeping it REAL Caregiving she was a media personality and news anchor.

About Keeping it REAL Caregiving:

We all ultimately have two choices in this life. We continue to age and there is a good chance various items will start to go haywire with our bodies and health. We must accept we will need help. The alternative is that we die.That is the theory behind Keeping it REAL Caregiving. Those who accept and embrace AGING – the prize behind doorway number ONE; learn that getting old is not always easy. Nor is it for the weak of heart. But it is nature’s course.

Keeping it REAL Caregiving creator Julia Yarbough, spent 20-years taking the lead ensuring her mother, Miss Nellie could live her last chapter feeling safe, loved and well-cared for.

Through personal experiences in caring for Miss Nellie, Yarbough realized our current systems and frameworks for family caregivers often fall short of the practical help people need most.

Keeping it REAL Caregiving Offers Guidance:

To help others navigate the often rough waters of family caregiving, Yarbough created Keeping it REAL Caregiving to offer guidance, support and resources. They discuss the tough questions and reach out to subject experts and family caregivers to answer questions in topics including:

• Adapting a home for the safety of your elder

• Securing additional assistance

• Understanding health insurance and hospital visits

• Researching Senior Living Facility options and facilities

• Identifying doctors trained in geriatric needs

• Reviewing family finances & life-planning documents

• Recognizing the emotional and career impacts to family caregivers

Family caregiving can be one of the most rewarding jobs one will ever have but, let’s keep it REAL! It can also “kick your butt!” It should not be this difficult to care for our loved ones!

KIRC strives to offer guidance, support, practical information and the opportunity to become more involved in advocacy efforts for our elders and ourselves: the next generation who will need care in our golden years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions on important age-related matters and topics.
0:10.1	Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local.
0:23.8	Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters.
0:26.3	If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for
0:29.5	taking time out to be with us today.
0:31.5	We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each
0:35.4	episode here at All home care matters, something
0:37.9	that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome the creator of Keeping
0:42.7	It Real Caregiving, Julia Yarbo. Welcome, Julia. Thank you. I appreciate the invite. Thanks.
0:50.2	It's our pleasure. It's our pleasure. So, Julia, your background is actually in media, television.
0:56.6	You were a news anchor for quite a few years and won some awards. How do you go from that to
1:02.8	keeping it real caregiving? Well, it's a transition that I'm sure many of you out there know
1:10.2	all too well. You wake up one morning
1:12.8	and you realize I'm taking care of a loved one. And so that transition from news broadcaster,
1:19.9	anchor reporter to family caregiver, happened as a natural transition of caring for my elderly,
1:26.1	now deceased mother. And in the beginning not realizing
1:30.1	that I was in fact a caregiver but helping her out as she was aging and then as she continued
1:36.6	to age and declined my role as a caregiver expanded and learning all of the things that go with being a caregiver. And so the next natural
1:46.7	progression was to share my personal stories, journeys, lessons learned, items that other people
1:53.0	might find valuable in a platform that I call keeping it real caregiving.
1:58.0	That's wonderful. And, you know, your mom was Nellie P. Yarbo,
2:02.4	and she did pass in 2020, I believe. And how long, Julia, were you there caring for mom
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