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Do you live away from your loved one?
Perhaps they are in the early stage of their disease and still able to manage most things themselves but you've started to step in to manage some aspects of their life and are visiting them more frequently.
Or maybe you're a daughter, son, sister or grandson who lives in another city or state & helps support the primary caregiver (another family member) by managing the back-end admin aspects of caregiving (because that alone is a full-time job).
As a long-distance daughter for 7 years, my guest today, Laura Smothers-Chu, understands firsthand the struggles caregivers face when caring for their parents from afar as she was a long-distance young caregiver to her dad with Dementia helping support her Mom.
In today's episode we talk about the stigma associated with long-distance caregiving and ways in which you can help support the primary caregiver (there are more than you think)! And if you are the primary caregiver, listening to this episode, and want to open the lines of communication to talk to family members or the long distance caregiver about helping, we guarantee the easiest way is sending them this podcast episode.
Laura Smothers-Chu is the CEO & Founder of Befriended Heart, LLC, a for-purpose business that specializes in empowering long-distance caregivers of dementia. Through Befriended Heart, she helps long-distance caregivers navigate their parents' dementia. With a 10+ year career in healthcare, Laura is Certified to Advise Elders (CSA®), she’s a Certified Dementia Practitioner (CDP®), and she hosts a YouTube channel called Joy in Dementia.
Where to connect with Laura:
On the web: https://www.joyindementia.com
On Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/joy.in.dementia
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