The Caring Generation® | Advice & Tips for Caregivers
Pamela D. Wilson, caregiving expert, offers caregiver advice and tips to navigate the challenges of caring for aging parents and managing health issues related to aging. Receive practical and proven strategies to manage health, financial costs of care, legal matters, and family relationships on each episode. Wilson's 25-year career as an expert witness, geriatric care manager, professional fiduciary, and owner of a home care agency offers unique support for caregivers and solutions for eldercare planning.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 228
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
What's Good About Being a Caregiver?
On this episode, What's Good About Being a Caregiver? Pamela D Wilson shares the blessings, disappointments, challenges, and lessons learned from the experience of caring for aging parents and loved …
00:59:30 |
Wed 13 Oct 2021
What to Do When Elderly Parents Want Constant Attention
Host Pamela D Wilson offers reasons elderly parents may want constant attention and how the actions of adult children caregivers may have unintentionally contributed to the situation. Learn solutions…
00:28:34 |
Wed 06 Oct 2021
Why Older Adults Can't Get Care
Host, Pamela D Wilson offers insights into why getting medical care can be difficult for older adults plus the benefits of having a primary caregiver. Dr. Edward Hoffer explains why healthcare is so …
00:58:23 |
Wed 29 Sep 2021
Hard Truths About Caring For Aging Parents
Caregiving expert, Pamela D Wilson talks openly about the challenges and trade-offs that caregivers make. Should caregivers give up careers, marriages, income, education, health, and well-being in re…
00:28:38 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
Wishing A Sick Parent Would Die
Pamela D Wilson offers insights into feelings experienced by caregivers that they hesitate to share, like wishing a sick parent would die. Dr. Mellissa Withers from the Keck School Medicine shares re…
00:58:42 |
Wed 15 Sep 2021
Tips for Helping Elderly Parents Grow Old At Home
Host Pamela D Wilson discusses aspects of aging at home. What adult children should know about planning and efforts beneficial to help elderly parents grow old and live at home. Plus, insights into t…
00:29:02 |
Wed 08 Sep 2021
Caregiving: Why Do Old People Get Mean?
Host Pamela D Wilson offers insights for caregivers into changes and frustrations experienced by aging parents to answer the question Why Do Old People Get Mean? Guest Dr. Jennifer Frontera, professo…
00:59:57 |
Wed 01 Sep 2021
What Caregivers Should Know About Caring for an Older Spouse
On this mini-podcast episode, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson responds to a question posed by a caregiver: What Should Caregivers Know About Caring for an Older Spouse? Have a question for a future…
00:21:44 |
Wed 25 Aug 2021
What to Do About Parents Getting Older
Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares tips for what to do about parents getting older. Guest. Dr. Claire Ankuda shares research about homebound older adults and the effects of being homebound on h…
00:58:45 |
Wed 18 Aug 2021
Healthcare Issues Confronting Caregivers
On this caregiving program, expert Pamela D Wilson talks about Healthcare Issues Confronting Caregivers. Learn reasons working with the healthcare system can be a struggle and how to become your own …
00:25:41 |
Wed 11 Aug 2021
Things Caregivers Wish Their Parents Knew
Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares things caregivers wish their aging parents knew. Advice for elderly parents and adult children about initiating caregiving conversations that are difficult to…
00:51:31 |
Wed 04 Aug 2021
Why Does Caring for Elderly Parents Make Me Mean?
Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson talks about the ongoing challenges that test the emotions and patience of caregivers to answer the question Why Does Caring for Elderly Parents Make Me Mean? Dr. Gwe…
00:58:58 |
Wed 28 Jul 2021
Why Caregivers Quit (Or Wish They Could)
Pamela D Wilson, caregiving expert, shares the experiences of family and professional caregivers to answer the question Why Do Caregivers Quit? Professor Michael R Solomon, an expert on consumer beha…
00:57:54 |
Wed 21 Jul 2021
Feeling Resentment Towards Parents
Pamela D Wilson shares how resentment arises in care situations and the benefits of moving past emotional stressors to focus on the future. Psychiatrist, Dr. Christian Heim, talks about how early rel…
00:56:10 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
What to Do When You Can No Longer Care for Elderly Parents or a Spouse
Pamela D Wilson shares tips for what to do when caring for elderly parents becomes too much. Guest Dr. Ingrid Bacon shares research to help caregivers understand and identify aspects of relationships…
00:57:36 |
Wed 07 Jul 2021
What to Do When Elderly Parents Give Up on Life
On this program, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson offers tips and inspiration for elderly parents or caregivers who may be giving up on life due to ongoing struggles or challenges. Guest Rich Aldert…
00:55:08 |
Wed 30 Jun 2021
How to Care for Dad
On this caregiver program, expert Pamela D Wilson talks about Caring for Dad. Advice for adult children caring for a father who is widowed, living alone, or caring for mom. Guest Dr. Monika Lopez-Anu…
00:57:22 |
Wed 23 Jun 2021
How to Stay Out of a Nursing Home
On this program, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares tips for Staying Out of a Nursing Home for adults and remaining active into your nineties. Guest David Frost, an NFPT Certified Master Fitnes…
00:55:55 |
Wed 16 Jun 2021
My Mother Refuses to Take Care of Herself
On this caregiver program, expert Pamela D Wilson offers insights for caregivers who say My Mother Refuses to Take Care of Herself. Is mom really refusing care or is something else going on? Dr. Jame…
00:55:34 |
Wed 09 Jun 2021
Caregiving: Living Your Life for Someone Else
Pamela D Wilson offers tips for caregivers living your life for someone else when caring for aging parents or a spouse. Guest Martha Tettenborn, a registered dietician talks about the effects of nutr…
00:55:47 |
Wed 02 Jun 2021
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