The Caring Generation®: Family Caregiving Expert Advice & Tips

Learn effective caregiver strategies to handle the emotional impact of caregiving that comes with unpredictable and uncertain elder care situations. Recognize the importance of caregiver well-being. Pamela D Wilson offers valuable caregiver tips and support for caregivers, emphasizing the importance of emotional health while caring for the elderly. Join Pamela as she explores practical solutions t...

This episode addresses the tough decision many adult children face: Is it right to put an elderly parent in a care home against their wishes? Caregiving expert Pamela D. Wilson shares invaluable caregiver tips and eldercare advice to navigate this emotional journey. Gain insights into the importance of creating family caregiving strategies and initiating essential eldercare discussions with aging...

Uncover four aspects of underestimating elderly care needs in this episode with caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson. Learn caregiver tips and care strategies to discuss the care and well-being of aging loved ones and prevent caregiver burnout. Recognize how underestimating elderly care can lead to health declines and caregiving challenges. Join Pamela for practical advice for managing the complexiti...

Stop feeling pressured by elderly parents to take on additional caregiving tasks. Pamela D. Wilson, a caregiving expert, shares stories of caregivers feeling pressured by elderly parents, siblings, and other family members. Get expert caregiver tips and advice to transform your caregiving story and start saying no to additional eldercare tasks and responsibilities that consume your life. To find s...

Dealing with siblings who refuse to offer to care for elderly parents or those who are overcontrolling can be challenging. Sibling caregiver resentment can be difficult to resolve unless all siblings are willing to work together to help a parent they love. Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares how siblings can create working relationships to care for elderly parents on episode 219 of The Caring...

Discover 9 questions to reveal your caregiver stress level, and so you can improve your caregiving skills and responses. Are you a stressed-out caregiver? The nine questions in this caregiver stress survey can help you identify habits that might be sabotaging your success.  This caregiver tool can help you level up your caregiving, communication, and interpersonal skills. Pamela D Wilson, caregivi...

Stop being taken advantage of as a caregiver with these essential tips. A desire to be helpful results in caregivers being taken advantage of. Learn how caregivers are taken advantage of by elderly parents, siblings, and others. Find tips on how to recognize if you are being taken advantage of and get the steps to rebalance caregiving relationships and your life from caregiving expert Pamela D Wil...

Sibling agreements over the care of elderly parents can result in conflict. Find tips to navigate these strategies when families become divided. Instead of allowing relationships to become toxic or dwell on constant conflict, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson offers tips to help siblings establish working relationships. While you may not like your sibling or elderly parents, a sense of duty and re...

Learn about the care of elderly A to Z from caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson, who shares information about twenty-six articles and podcasts for adult children and spousal caregivers based on 25 years of professional experience serving older adults and caregivers.  Links to the 26 articles mentioned in this podcast can be found on Pamela's website on The Caring Generation podcast page for Episode...

If you are a spouse or partner, what should you do before you or your spouse gets sick? If your spouse has health problems or you suspect memory loss, planning becomes time-sensitive. Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares the importance of care discussions and offers a practical list of nine recommendations to help you prepare for what’s ahead. Know the basics of planning, whether you are livin...

What rights does a person with dementia have? People with dementia become more vulnerable when memory loss advances. How can you make sure that you or a loved one with dementia maintain basic human rights to be treated with dignity and respect when you need care?  Pamela D Wilson, caregiving expert, shares definitions and stories to illustrate the experiences of persons with dementia who can lose...

Are you a caregiver living life and feeling trapped taking care of someone else who is sick? If you are a sick person who needs care, you might be tired of doctors or your caregiver telling you what to do so that you can feel better. Have you heard the saying that the grass always looks greener on the other side? Well, that’s until you get to the other side. Pamela D Wilson, caregiving expert shar...

Elderly parents and loved ones with dementia can lose their language skills and verbal communication abilities. They may speak, but their words don’t make sense. This speaking and not making sense is called "word salad dementia." It's like mixing up a bunch of words and trying to make a sentence out of them. What can family members do to maintain relationships with loved ones with dementia when wo...

Is your sibling abusing power of attorney for an elderly parent? Learn how to prevent sibling abuse of power of attorney when your sibling is named as the sole agent or when you share the power of attorney agent duties, especially if you don't fully trust your brother or sister. In episode 210 of The Caring Generation podcast, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares her professional experience wi...

Nursing homes and assisted living discharges from facilities happen for various reasons. While patients believe they have a right to care, these rights only go so far when insurance companies set limits or patient behaviors cause safety risks for staff or residents. Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares her experiences with nursing homes and care community discharges so that aging adults and fa...

Caregivers do a lot of hard things. Doing the hard stuff, like having care discussions in the family or making difficult decisions, can be emotionally stressful and guilt-filled. In episode 208 of the Caring Generation podcast, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares: 1) how to understand when a problem or question is more complex than it looks, which is often the case in caregiving, 2) how emoti...

Caregivers of persons with dementia, especially spouses who are 24/7 caregivers, often experience worse health than the spouse they care for. Adult children caring for a parent or parents with dementia also experience high stress levels. Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares information about stress and aspects of being a dementia caregiver that include the importance of family and social suppo...

Caregivers for others and people caring for themselves can experience a lot of stress. Affirmations for caregivers can be a way to bring hope and progress into your life during some of life's most challenging times. Listen as caregiving expert Pamela D. Wilson discusses how affirmations can be helpful, how to create the right affirmation for you, and how to make affirmations work for caregivers. ...

Are caregiving responsibilities taking over your life? Does responding to unexpected events take you off track from managing your life and health or caring for an aging parent? Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares how random events can take life off track and what caregivers and people managing their own care can do to cope and manage.  Random and unexpected events can stop caregivers and care...

Learn how good and well-intentioned caregivers become suspected elder abusers by Adult Protective Services and the police. Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares how Adult Protective Services becomes involved and what family members can do if they are suspected of committing elder abuse.  Family members are the most common perpetrators through unintentional or intentional acts of financial, psyc...

The experiences of dementia caregivers contribute to stress levels when making difficult decisions. Dementia behaviors and hands-on care needs can raise stress levels of dementia caregivers who prioritize care for others and neglect their care. During this episode, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares her professional experiences working with persons diagnosed with dementia and the aspects of...

When care needs arise, aging parents and adult children experience health, legal, and money conflicts. Learn how to identify potential issues that can happen in the future to ensure you or a loved one receives care the way you planned. Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares examples from her professional experience. Learn about family challenges resulting from lifelong health habits, blended fam...

Learn how to respond to unexpected news and events related to aging, health, and money with a proven process. Caregivers and persons with health concerns can experience constant change, resulting in anxiety and worry. Instead of struggling to respond to bad news or ongoing uncertainty, create a path forward to identify and implement solutions to everyday and complex problems.    During this podcas...

Elderly health routines can support healthy aging habits. Monitoring the daily activities of elderly parents can help identify and create routines to support health and a healthy lifestyle to help parents stay at home. Attention to health and activities that support elderly health is critical for persons who want to stay at home after retirement. Daily routines that support good health can reduce...

When to worry about aging parents health can be a concern for adult children desiring to move ahead with their lives. Missing early warning signs can result in emotional and physical problems. Learn tips to deal with the declining health of loved ones, notice symptoms of worsening health, and how to emotionally deal with parents declining health.  Pamela D Wilson, caregiving expert offers these in...