Support Caring for Elderly Parents: Online Course for Family Caregivers

Is it time to find support caring for elderly parents? Find support caring for elderly parents in this online caregiver education program. Learn the A-Z of caring for aging parents and yourself.

• Are you struggling to care for your parents and work full-time, go to school, raise children, and make time for your marriage, your spouse, and yourself?
• Do grandparents need your help? What happens to your goals of attending college or working?
• Did you think that your retirement years would be filled with travel and adventure, but instead time is devoted to caring for aging parents?

If so you’re not alone.

Adult children caring for parents and spouses ask me where to find trusted and reliable information all in one place. In all honesty, caregiving is complicated. Every situation is different.

How to Take Care of Elderly Parents at Home

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8 Modules of Detailed Recommendations for Caregivers

Even if it’s been years since you’ve taken a course, don’t worry. With all of the advances in technology, there’s no need to hesitate about programs available in a webinar format.

It’s no different than watching a television program or a movie, except the purpose of a webinar is meant to inform, entertain or educate.

Anyone with the ability to use a computer and access this page can watch all of the webinars in this program and the associated materials.

Access The Webinars Here

Click below on the Module number in PINK to visit each page. There you will be able to watch all of the webinar programs, access slides, and research articles by clicking on the links in PINK.

Module 1: Managing Emotions, Family Relationships, and Elderly Parents Who Refuse Care

Module 2: Signs Elderly Parents Need Care: Creating Strategies and Initiating Conversations With Parents, Doctors, and Family Members

Module 3: Activities of Daily Living: The Effects of Nutrition and Physical Activity on Aging

Module 4: Home Safety for Seniors: Preventing Falls, Injuries, and Weakness

Module 5: A Plan for Elderly Parents: How to Create Stay Healthy Daily Routines

Module 6: Creating a Plan to Care for Loved Ones With Memory Loss

Module 7: Medicare Doesn’t Pay for Everything: Planning for the Care Costs for Elderly Parents

Module 8: How to Manage Healthcare Providers for Elderly Parents

 

Support Caring for Elderly Parents – Online Program

If you are serious about wanting to know what it really takes to provide good care for parents and navigate the healthcare system maze, this open-course webinar program can fast-forward your knowledge, save you time and help you make better care decisions.

This caregiver education program can change how you manage and look at caregiving relationships.

You’ll find 28 hours of webinar support caring for elderly parents organized in eight modules plus references to 24 hours of The Caring Generation podcasts that relate to specific topics.

Knowledge is Power

Family caregivers can learn aspects of caring for elderly parents that apply to their own lives. By becoming knowledgeable about health you have the opportunity to change the course of your life.

It’s possible to be healthy and active beyond the age of 60, 70, or 80 when you learn what contributes to poor health and sickness.

Caregiving professionals will find information that you can apply to caring for or supporting clients and patients in your workplace.

By understanding the struggles that family caregivers and the elderly experience, everyone becomes more compassionate and learns how to manage the stress of caring relationships.

How to Support Aging Parents and Maintain Your Sanity

It can be challenging if not near impossible to understand the tasks, coordination, and decisions that are involved when caring for loved ones if you don’t have prior experience. Instead of responding to one crisis after another, this video course for caregivers helps you reduce worry, gain insights and build confidence to know you are doing the right things to help parents make good decisions.

Instead of spending hours searching on the Internet only to be disappointed by not finding the information you need, it’s here.

Pamela’s online webinar course called Stay at Home gives caregivers the knowledge they need to manage care situations that quickly become complicated when the health of a parent changes.

Find Hope

Family caregivers think they have to do it all alone until situations become so overwhelming that caregivers doubt their ability to keep going to provide care for elderly parents.

It’s easy to become exhausted by the ongoing stress and wear and tear of caregiving responsibilities.

You may have searched the Internet for hours looking for information only to come up with general information that doesn’t address your concerns.

Gain Confidence

Learn everything you need to know about managing the unexpected situations that arise when aging parents need help and more and more of your time. Watch sections of this online webinar course or binge-watch the entire eight-module series.

The eight-module open-course webinar program helps you identify signs that parents need more help and manage the emotional ups and downs associated with watching the health of parents decline.

Caregivers will learn how to manage and monitor health issues, create financial and legal plans, identify support services, learn the ins and outs of hiring n-home caregivers, investigate assisted living, and more.

Practical Step-by-Step Strategies

Trying to prepare for the unexpected can lead to sleepless nights and worry. Ongoing stress can lead to mental confusion and stress that makes it more difficult to manage and plan for the care of a loved one.

The emotional aspect of managing care is often more significant to all of the tasks that have to be completed.

Here’s what family caregivers can learn in this open course program for caregivers:

• How to understand the relationship between aging and health and work with doctors to prevent increasing levels of illness
• Strategies to initiate discussions about topics that aging parents and other family members may want to ignore
• Home safety tips to reduce injuries, hospitalizations, and needing nursing home care
• Things caregivers don’t know to watch for but that are important to reduce the likelihood of parents needing more help
• How to manage disagreements and conflicts with siblings, parents, and other family members
• Tips to identify and care for loved ones with dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and other conditions related to memory loss
• What to do when parents can no longer live alone
• Why do hospital stays for older adults result in health conditions worsening instead of getting better
• How to create financial plans for the costs of care, including what to do when there isn’t enough money to pay for care services or assistance
• Tips to navigate the healthcare system and learn to advocate so you can make sure loved ones get the care they need
• Understand the legal planning and medical permissions necessary to speak to doctors and healthcare providers about the care of your parents
• Steps for hiring in-home caregivers, managing care, and working with the staff in assisted living and nursing homes so that parents receive care instead of being overlooked
• Tips for managing caregiver stress and overwhelm
• And more . . .

Stop Reacting to Crises after Crises

Caregivers say they’re too busy to care for themselves or learn more about caring for aging parents. If something happens to you, what happens to the person you care for?

By participating in this caregiver education program you will find more time for yourself by managing your time instead of reacting to one crisis after another.

Don’t wait until you are on a path to burnout and exhaustion by ignoring the signs that your care situation will continue to require more of your time.

Become a more caring and competent caregiver for an aging parent resulting from the unique knowledge you learn in this course. Refuse to allow caregiving responsibilities to negatively affect your marriage, family, and friend relationships, career, or future opportunities. It’s time to make more time for you.

Love Life Again

Being open-minded and willing to learn is the path to reducing caregiver stress. Rather than allowing the responsibilities of caregiving to drive your behaviors, decide today to take more control of your life.

There are many overwhelmed caregivers who feel the same way – exhausted, frustrated, or angry that outside circumstances have taken their lives off track. When life gets crazy it can be easy to be mentally dragged down by the needs of others including elderly parents.

Make time today for yourself and improve care for your loved ones by participating in this online caregiver education program.

 

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