Talking to Kids about Dementia with Alder Allensworth - Caregiver Spotlight
Happy Healthy Caregiver
Elizabeth Miller Featured on The Whole Care Network
5.0 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Alder Allensworth cared for her mother who had Alzheimer’s and her father who had vascular dementia. Alder’s inspiration to co-create a children’s tool kit for families came from watching her mother interact with her grandchildren.
In this episode of the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, we talk about the resources Alder and her friend Brenda created to help children better understand dementia. Alder shares the benefits of having structure in our days, how a continuing care retirement community was the right fit for her parents for a while, how FMLA allowed her to be present for her parents in their final weeks, and what her daily energizing self-care practices look like.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Whole Care Network. |
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| 0:40.5 | And thank you for listening to the Whole Care Network. |
| 0:52.8 | There's a fair amount of resources for teenagers and on up, but for little ones, how do you explain Alzheimer's? |
| 1:02.3 | How do you explain that grand's not being mean? |
| 1:06.6 | Grand's not wanting to hurt you. |
| 1:09.5 | And how do you repair that relationship? |
| 1:14.9 | Caring for aging parents or other loved ones while working, raising children, and trying |
| 1:19.7 | to live your own life, wondering how to find the time for your personal health and happiness? |
| 1:24.3 | Well, you're in the right place. |
| 1:25.9 | Welcome to the Happy Healthy Caregiver Podcast, |
| 1:29.0 | the show where real family caregivers share how to be happy and healthy while caring for others. |
| 1:34.4 | Now here's your host, Family Caregiver, and certified caregiving consultant, Elizabeth Miller. |
| 1:42.5 | Hello, everyone. Thanks for tuning in to the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, which is part of the Whole Care Network. |
| 1:48.3 | If this is your first time listening, welcome. |
| 1:50.7 | This is a show produced biweekly to help family caregivers integrate self-care and caregiving into their lives. |
| 1:57.9 | The Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast is also pleased to be a part of the Whole Care Network streaming |
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