Description
What caregiving role will you play?
How will you avoid the caregiving cost drain?
Are you prepared for the end?
How will you overcome stress, burn-out, depression, guilt?
How will you find happiness and support?
How do you start the caregiving conversation with a loved one?
Are you caring for yourself while caregiving?
More than 65 million Americans are caring for a loved one yet most don't know what they are facing or where to get help. Caregiving expert Sherri Snelling shines a spotlight on the world of caregiving and interviews celebrities who have taken the caregiving journey and shared their lessons learned. This how-to guide also covers caregiving topics A to Z, self-care advice and more. Inside you will find numerous expert interviews and tips on how to have the C-A-R-E Conversation℠ and how to find your Me Time Monday℠.
Written to inspire and empower you, this is your screenplay for health and happiness while caregiving. As Dorothy said in The Wizard of Oz, "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
Welcome to the Cast of Caregivers.
About the Author
Sherri Snelling is a corporate gerontologist, "authorpreneur" and founder/CEO of Caregiving Club, a strategic consulting and educational content creation firm with an expertise in caregiver wellness, well home design and brain health/Alzheimer's. She is the host of the podcast, "Caregiving Club On Air," producer/host of the unscripted cable TV show, "Handle With Care" and author of Me Time Monday - The Weekly Wellness Plan to Find Balance and Joy for a Busy Life and A Cast of Caregivers - Celebrity Stories to Help You Prepare to Care. Snelling writes articles for various online news outlets and serves as an on-air aging wellness expert for TV and radio news. She advises Fortune 1000 companies and start-ups in the longevity economy on caregiving and wellness programs as well as on well home and office interior design. She also conducts caregiver wellness educational workshops and webinars for employer groups and other organizations and speaks internationally on topics from her books. Snelling has served on aging and caregiving advisory committees for the White House, the Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Alzheimer's Association, the National Institute on Aging and Georgetown University. She also is a mentor for the Techstars and Pivotal Ventures longevity start-up incubator program. Snelling has a master's degree in gerontology from USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and a master's certification from MIT Sloan School of Management on Shaping the Jobs of the Future. She lives in Newport Beach, California.