CERTIFIED SENIOR ADVISOR (CSA)-LED CAREGIVER EDUCATION · AUDUBON, PA · LEARN IDAHO 2024
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Caring for yourself. Sustainability over heroics.
Caregiving lasts years. The version where you carry it alone, exhaust yourself, and burn out is the version that fails the parent you’re trying to help. This topic is about the structural work of staying healthy — physically, emotionally, professionally — through the long arc of caregiving.
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Everything in Caring for yourself.
PRACTICAL GUIDE
How to Balance Work and Caring for Aging Parents
There’s no balance. The honest question is how to do both well enough, for long enough, to come out the other side intact.
PRACTICAL GUIDE5 Barriers to Paid Family Leave for Caregivers
Why paid family leave is so much harder to access than it should be — and what you can do about each barrier while the system catches up.
PRACTICAL GUIDEHow to Respect Aging Parents’ Independence While Offering Help
Cross-listed from Conversations & advocacy. Relevant here because respecting their independence is part of keeping your own sanity.