caregiver planning

Explore "caregiver planning" with insightful episodes like "Supporting Young Caregivers: The Overlooked Caregiver Demographic", "Full-Time Caregiver and Mother: How Jean Ellison Balances Two Essential Roles" and "Financial Decision Making for Caregivers with Shannon Lee Simmons" from podcasts like ""Caregivers Out Loud", "Caregivers Out Loud" and "Caregivers Out Loud"" and more!

Episodes (3)

Supporting Young Caregivers: The Overlooked Caregiver Demographic

What difficulties develop when a child becomes a caregiver to their own parent? Studies show that young caregivers make up at least 12% of Canadian youth. One of these young people is Kristie Mar. At just 16 years old, Kristie set aside a significant part of her adolescence to become the sole carer for her mother, who was navigating schizophrenia and anorexia. The medical professionals, counsellors, and groups from whom she sought assistance, however, never gave her the title of “caregiver.” As such, it took her years to think of herself in this way or discover the resources that search term could unlock.

Today, Kristie is a medical student and an active participant in this community. She wants to help increase awareness and resources for fellow adolescents who are thrust, so often unprepared and unsupported, into the role of caregiver for their family members.

Hear the difficulties a young caregiver faced, caring on her own, including:

The impact of expanding the narrow definition of “caregiver” to better identify young caregivers
Where to uncover resources that help reduce the deep sense of isolation
The many facets of childhood that are lost to young caregivers
Strategies for maintaining mental health while balancing childhood and a very adult responsibility

Resources:

Powerhouse program for young caregivers - https://www.familycaregiversbc.ca/young-caregivers-2
Managing expectations - https://www.familycaregiversbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Managing-Expectations-April-2020-1.pdf
Episode 11 How to Use Writing for Healing and Self Care - https://www.familycaregiversbc.ca/podcast/episode-11-how-to-use-writing-for-healing-and-self-care
Episode 14 Creativity as a Form of Self Care - https://www.familycaregiversbc.ca/podcast/episode-14-creativity-as-a-form-of-self-care
Family Caregivers of BC Caregiver Support Line - 1-877-520-3267 (Monday through Friday 8:30am to 4pm PT)
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Thank you!

BC Ministry of Health - Patients as Partners Initiative - https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/about-bc-s-health-care-system/partners/patients

Organized Sound Productions - https://www.organizedsound.ca/

enFebruary 13, 2024

caregiving strategies

young carer

Full-Time Caregiver and Mother: How Jean Ellison Balances Two Essential Roles

How do you honour both yourself and your family member when giving full-time care? In this episode, Jean Ellison speaks about her experience as a full-time caregiver to her daughter, Brooke, whose story of life as a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic is well-known and inspirational.

For more than 30 years, Jean Ellison has balanced the roles of full-time caregiver and mother. While it was always clear to Jean that Brooke would live at home and not in a care facility, accepting her new reality and career trajectory was not a simple process. Jean strives to find happiness and laughter in every day, treating each one as a clean slate for both herself and her daughter.

Get a glimpse into Jean’s challenging and heartening experience:

What it was like to be trained and tested to care for her own daughter
Who she has become despite an unforeseeable change in her life’s direction
Where she finds the middle ground between home care and motherly compassion
How hope and acceptance can combine to create a fulfilling life despite the obstacles.

Resources:

https://www.brookeellison.com/
Family Caregivers of BC Caregiver Support Line: 1-877-520-3267 (Monday through Friday 8:30am to 4pm PT)

Connect With Us!

To read a full transcript of each episode, visit the Family Caregivers of BC website https://www.familycaregiversbc.ca/podcast

Visit us at our office:

#6 – 3318 Oak Street,
Victoria, BC
V8X 1R1

Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Telephone: (250) 384-0408

Toll-Free Line Within BC: 1-877-520-3267

Fax: (250) 361-2660

Email: info@familycaregiversbc.ca

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FamilyCaregiversBC/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/familycaregiversofbc/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/18122187

Twitter https://twitter.com/caringbc

Thank you!

BC Ministry of Health - Patients as Partners Initiative - https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/about-bc-s-health-care-system/partners/patients

Organized Sound Productions - https://www.organizedsound.ca/

enSeptember 19, 2023

Financial Decision Making for Caregivers with Shannon Lee Simmons

At some point in our lives, we’ll all be faced with a tough decision we didn’t see coming. In most caregiving situations, people enter the caregiving role with love and passion. Then pretty soon, they begin to see some of the bigger implications, such as how finances are a big factor in the choices that affect the care recipient OR the caregiver themself. In today’s episode, we chat with Shannon Lee Simmons, a Certified Financial Planner and the author of a new book “No Regret Decisions: Making Good Choices During Difficult Times”, to tackle some of the anxiety and emotional stress for caregivers that come with making important financial decisions. And answer the question, how do we make good decisions during difficult times?

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