Dementia Empowered: Confident Caregiving with Legal, Financial, and Daily Support
Does caring for an aging parent with dementia leave you feeling overwhelmed?
Managing bills, using a power of attorney, and understanding the health care system is hard enough, but you may also be baffled by your family member's behaviors.
Dementia Empowered is a podcast helping family caregivers to navigate dementia care, overcome legal and financial challenges, and confidently support their loved ones.
Your host, elder law attorney and dementia care coach Patrick Cawley, has worked with people in your situation for years. After preparing legal documents or making long-term care strategies, Patrick found that dementia caregivers needed much more guidance. He started this show to give clarity on legal tools, financial strategies, and care skills that will reduce stress and enhance quality of life.
Tune in twice a week for the complete package of dementia care. You can do this!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 121
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Hanna's Challenges (and Solutions)
Most people either fail to make a plan for the later years of life, or else they get a simple will and mistakenly believe they have an adequate plan. This episode tells the story of Hanna and her pl…
Having a Family Caregiving Plan
Whether you know someone whose health is declining or you are planning for your own future, there is no escaping the statistics that say that, by far, most of us will need a higher level of care, sup…
Changing Your Medicare Coverage
Just like your estate plan or financial plan, you should consider whether changes need to be made to your health care coverage. Every year between October and December, you have the chance to make ch…
Emotional Well-Being
There can be many sources of stress, sadness, or frustration in the later years of life. We lose loved ones, we receive a troubling diagnosis, we have aches and pains, and we worry about having enou…
How Do I Get Started?
When it dawns on people that the challenges of the later years of life require planning, they commonly ask, "How do I get started?" This is a good sign that people realize they need more than just s…
Veterans' Benefits
Planning for the later years of life may include knowing about available benefits. If you served in any branch of the military, there may be benefits available to you for health care, long-term care…
Oral Hygiene for Older Adults
You've heard since childhood that brushing and flossing your teeth is important. Failing to do it will lead to a buildup of plaques and bacteria and will lead to infection and inflammation in your gu…
Know What You're Planning For
When people hear the term "estate planning," they generally think it's one of those things that adults do. They think it's a positive step for their family. But they usually know very little more t…
Alzheimer's Facts, Resources, and Hope
Cognitive decline leaves many families scrambling for guidance, resources, and support. When a person has Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia, today's care plan will not be the same as t…
Social Security Retirement Income Questions
Approaching the retirement years, there is no shortage of planning decisions. There is estate planning and asset protection, there's Medicare planning for health insurance, and there are decisions ab…
Safety, Dignity, and Empowerment in Long-Term Care
Nearly 70% of people will need a higher level of care in the later years of life. There are ways to prepare legally and financially to preserve hard-earned savings. Still many people have an unaddres…
Guardianship and Dementia Resources
Planning for incapacity is critically important. When people fail to plan with a power of attorney or trust, or they choose a decision-maker who is not up to the task, guardianship is the government'…
Giving Life
Imagine attending a party where the guest of honor is happy to be surrounded by family, friends, and coworkers. Everyone at the party is celebrating a milestone: 25 years of good health, new relation…
Professional Home Care
Two out of every three people will need a higher level of care in the later years of life. Like your legal or financial planning, the sooner you become familiar with your care options, the better the…
Being a Family Caregiver
The population of older adults is exploding. Maybe you've heard about the largest transfer of assets in history because of this demographic change. But what happens before our older adults die and p…
Older Adults and Real Estate
The home usually is the most valuable part of an older adult's savings. The older adult spent decades saving and being disciplined with their spending. The home this person owns is central to the p…
Preventing Falls
An older adult who gets injured from an accidental fall may never fully recover. A fall can set in motion a series of health consequences and may require a higher level of long-term care. In this e…
What the Media Are Telling You
Keystone Elder Law provides a lot of free education. If you don't learn from the experts, you're left reading articles online. Some of those articles offer great advice, but others miss the mark. T…
Trusts for the Middle Class
The Middle Class needs asset protection more than anyone else. While the very rich may need protection from taxes, long-term care can wipe out the life savings of a middle class family. Trusts are …
Estate Planning: Where to Start
Estate planning is not a set of documents. It is a process of understanding who is involved, needs that they have, and threats that they will likely face. It is understanding what you own, how you o…