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Right now, the caregiving industry is having problems meeting the demand for care. There are not enough caregivers or people going into the field of caregiving, which pushes up the wages for the entire industry.

Caregivers are also expected to know a unique combination of specialized skills to get the job done. Similar to nursing, caregivers are required to complete continued education and are expected to work difficult hours. As a result, caregivers are moving into different industries and choosing different career paths.

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 God cares for caregivers. Remember He's one too. There's a song that comes to my mind periodically throughout life, just about every other week or so. It says, "Through it all, I've learned to trust in Jesus. I've learned to trust in God, through it all." You know there's a lot of all that we go through. Isn't it? A-L-L. I tell you, sometimes it's big, bold, black letters that are capitalized and bigger than that.

All, all, all of those things we have to go through, but the key to it is through, not into, never to come out of it, but through it, through it, and when you do that, you find that you can trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and God the father to make it so. Look, you can have what Psalm 16:8 and nine says, "I have set the Lord always before me because he's at my right hand. I will not be shaken.

Therefore, my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices, my body shall also rest secure because He will not abandon me." Hey, that's true. He's going to be with you through it all. He promises never to leave you, never to forsake you, and He's good for his promise. He's the God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Meaning that when He was there with you in the good times, He's with you now when it may be isn't so good, maybe it's really hard.

Maybe you are really feeling the pressure and the stress of it all and He understands, He knows, but He's with you and He's going to make it so that you can come through victoriously through it all as you learn to trust in Him. Remember, God cares for caregivers. He's one of them.

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Thank you so much for being a part of coffee with Jon, Caregiver Success. And today it’s my pleasure to have with me, Keith Freeman. Keith has been in the industry for over 20 years, and has a lot of insights about how healthcare providers can really improve their operations and make sure that their caregivers are providing the best care that they can. Keith, thank you so much and welcome to the show.

Keith Freeman: Thanks Jon for having me. Appreciate it.

Jon: It’s a pleasure. Well, Keith, why don’t you do this? Why don’t you give just a little bit of a background of who you serve. You know, if you can have one person listen to this episode, who would that be?

Keith Freeman: Well, I work with healthcare organizations that have a service based patient care outcome. So, I work with a lot of owners of home health, home care administrators, so that can be at the hospital level, assisted living, community based care type models.

Jon: And how does Six Sense help these healthcare operators?

Keith Freeman: So, the main way that we help these healthcare operators is helping them find hidden deficiencies. So, examples of that could be with the hiring and workforce planning, the training, and the development with technology applications to support functions and really the use of those technologies. And finding ways in order to be able to create strategies that serve both short term and the long term.

Jon: When hiring caregivers,

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If you're a family caregiver the thought of evaluating Assisted Living options can be overwhelming.

Which facility is right for you and your loved ones? What questions do you need to ask other members of the family? How do you know if the facility is being run properly?

You need the assistance of an expert that can help you navigate the process, and today, we are going to have that conversation with someone that has over 20 years of experience in the Assisted Living business and has helped thousands of families Navigate the Steps to find the right Senior Care for their loved one.

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Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been an essential resource for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease or another form of dementia, he or she will face a host of problems. The 36-Hour Day will help family members and caregivers address these challenges and simultaneously cope with their own emotions and needs.

Featuring useful takeaway messages and informed by recent research into the causes of and the search for therapies to prevent or cure dementia, this edition includes new information on

• devices to make life simpler and safer for people who have dementia

• strategies for delaying behavioral and neuropsychiatric symptoms

• changes in Medicare and other health care insurance laws

• palliative care, hospice care, durable power of attorney, and guardianship

• dementia due to traumatic brain injury

• choosing a residential care facility

• support groups for caregivers, friends, and family members

The central idea underlying the book―that much can be done to improve the lives of people with dementia and of those caring for them―remains the same. The 36-Hour Day is the definitive dementia care guide.

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In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.

Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.

Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.

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“It’s All In Your Approach” is a 2 hour training DVD for caregivers. Teepa Snow,

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The Life of a Professional Caregiver can often be full of drama. The ups and downs of an emotional roller coaster that we experience each day with those we care for can create drama in the workplace. Today, we're going to have coffee with Dennis McIntee. He's the "Drama Free Guy."

He has helped hundreds of healthcare organizations transform their cultures by eliminating workplace drama. Dennis travels extensively working with leaders to uncover constraints and build roadmaps for growth to increase their bottom-line performance. As an expert in creating drama-free teams, he assists leaders in leveraging their time and resources more effectively through strategic planning. In short, Dennis is a caregiver for caregivers. Welcome to the show, Dennis.

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Disappointed In Your Team’s Results? Are you frustrated because your team doesn’t produce results fast enough? Stressed out because you spend your time putting out fires produced by team drama?

The 8 Qualities Of Drama Free Teams will give you the tools you need to accomplish more in less time. This practical handbook shows you 8 different leadership strategies you can use today to see immediate changes in your organization. You don’t have to tolerate the drama. You can lead a high-trust, high-performance team that produces results. And you can do it without putting in more hours, and without working harder.

Inside this book, you’ll discover:

* The one coaching question that causes people to take personal responsibility.

* A proven feedback formula that creates behavioral change.

* How to unlock the 4 drivers of human motivation to help your team get more done in less time.

Read The 8 Qualities Of Drama Free Teams and start doing more, with less stress, and zero drama.

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20 Questions to take the drama out of your team so you can accomplish more.

One of the chief complaints we hear from leaders is, “Why do we waste our time in so many meetings?”  It’s a fair question, especially if the meetings are full of drama.  When teams allow drama to invade their interactions, people become scattered.  They’re busy, but not productive. They waste time and energy rehashing the same information over and over again.  It’s time to stop the madness! We feel your pain.

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Good Word for Caregivers

God cares for caregivers. Remember, he's one too. Do you remember this phrase? Day by day and with each passing moment, God will take care of you. All you may need, he will provide. Nothing you ask will be denied. Think of that. You see, it's in the book of Philippians where Paul says, "My God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus." And I know that to be true, and you know that to be true. And you need to be reminded of it right now. He can supply your need. He will provide. He gives provision. It's his to give. You see, he's called, in the old testament, Jehova-Jireh: The Lord who provides.

And whatever your need is right now, and it may be one that's spiritual. Maybe it's mental. Maybe it's emotional. Maybe it's physical. Maybe it's financial. Any one of those, God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that you could think or ask. So you can ask because he's got the provision. He is able to do it and he wants to do it. So ask. Ask.

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Are you able to still laugh? I sure hope so. Well, you are listening to Coffee with Jon, Caregiver Success. We're all about inspiring stories. Today we're going to have coffee with Audette Rackley. Now, Audette is the author of "I Can Still Laugh, Stories of Inspiration and Hope from Individuals Living with Alzheimer's." In her book she shares the stories of 13 men and women and their personal struggles with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.

Now, you will be inspired by learning their secret that minimizes the effects of their illness and allows them to continue to live exciting, active lives.

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Thirteen men and women reveal their personal struggles with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Remarkably, every one of them finds ways to minimize the effects of their illness and continue to live exciting, active lives.

Their mission is to make themselves – and everyone else around them – forget the notion that life ends with a diagnosis. Their secret to doing so lies in concentrating on strengths, not weaknesses, an approach they have learned at the Center for BrainHealth at the University of Texas at Dallas, where these individuals participate in the Stark Club, a special group that meets regularly to challenge, inspire and support one another.

Their experiences demonstrate how individuals diagnosed with dementia can reframe their thoughts and actions to make a positive difference in the way they live with their impairments. The brave individuals of these stories are proving that life goes on and all is not lost because, in their words, “I can still laugh.”

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Good Word For Caregivers

God cares for caregivers. Remember He's one too. Say, it's the Lord who tells us, "Let not your heart be troubled." Now it may be that you're feeling the troubles of it all. It's not an easy task to be a caregiver. We all know that. It can have its problems. It can have its difficulties. You can feel troubled, but if your heart is troubled there's a problem. So you need to make sure that you don't let your heart be troubled.

You see, it was in John Chapter 14 where Jesus spoke that not just once, but twice, He told His followers, "Don't let your heart be troubled." Why? Because the heart is the seat of your emotions. If you're an emotional person, that means that you can feel your troubles very deeply in your heart, and that affects a lot of things because that's the center of your living. That's where you are and who you are whether you're with somebody or you're all by yourself. You want not to be troubled. You want to have a sense of peace that's perfect and passes all understanding, and it will keep your heart and your mind through Christ Jesus. Ask for it. He's willing to give it to you. If He tells us twice to not let it be troubled, He'll help you not to be troubled. Remember, God cares for caregivers. Remember, He's one too.

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We’re having coffee with Audette Rackley. Audette is the head of special programs for the Center for Brain Health of the University of Texas at Dallas. She’s a member of the Center for Brain Health since its beginning in 1999 and Audette is head of special programs. She is a proponent of early detection and habits to promote healthy aging. Her current research focus is developing and conducting brain training programs for individuals with memory complaints and mild cognitive impairment.

Now, her unique gift is helping people with cognitive impairments discover t...

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What happens when circumstances change and you need to give up your career and become a Family Caregiver? As a professional journalist, Mary Anne shares her journey from career to caregiving.

Mary Anne has a passion to create meaningful and memorable stories. Starting with her work in video and TV, she has produced news pieces for FOX and a hip-hop music history documentary for Bravo. Today she is going to share her personal story as a caregiver.

Good Word For Caregivers

God cares for caregivers. Remember, he's one too. Say, are you feeling in the shadows right now? Just, where's the sunshine of life? Where's the brightness of it all? You just feel like you're in the shadows. Well, he can lift you up above those shadows. Whilst it may be fearful shadows, but I'll tell you, you can get high above it, and I like what Isaiah in the 40th chapter says, that those who hope in the Lord, will renew their strength, and they will soar on wings like eagles.

Hey, would you like to soar like an eagle today? Well, God wants to help you do that. You may not feel like you can even get off the ground, because caregivers sometimes are just tired, and weary, and worn out, and I don't even know if I have the strength to fly. Well, he can help you fly. I guarantee you that the Lord is with you now, recognize that. Know that he can give you that extra, so you can take wings like an eagle, and fly above, be lifted above the shadows of life. That's such good news, isn't it?

I'm so glad to share it with you. Don't forget, God cares for caregivers, and remember, he's one too.

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We’re having coffee with Mary Anne Connolly today. Now Mary Anne, she has a passion to create meaningful and memorable content by combining classic story telling techniques with the latest, most innovative tech tools available. Her professional work ranges from short video pieces for Fox to a hip hop music history documentary for Bravo.

Well today, she is going to share her personal story as a caregiver. Mary Anne, are you there?

Mary Anne C.: I’m here. Hi, Jonathan.

Jon: Hello. It’s so great to chat with you. Now, you have an interesting background, because you kind of came into this caregiving journey, but your professional background is journalism, and writing. You’re a PR content creator with Mac Media, macmedicatx.com. Why don’t you just do a little bit, kind of, number one, tell us who do you want to listen to this episode, and then just tell us a little bit of how you got into the caregiving journey.

Mary Anne C.: Okay. Well, thank you, Jon, or Jonathan. What do you prefer? I meant to ask you that before.

Jon: You know, you can call me Jon, or Jonathan, just don’t call me late for supper.

Mary Anne C.: Okay, Jon. I like Jon because my dad was Jon Micheal. Well, basically I would want anyone to listen to this, in any field, but especially anyone who is interested, obviously, in caregiving, and healthy aging. But, honestly, as a journalist, I always want to get my message to the broadest possible audience, and I actually think anybody who’s alive has to face this subject and-

Jon: We’re all going to get old, is that what you’re saying? We’re all aging?

Mary Anne C.: Well, it’s used by a lot of groups now, especially a lot of our local [inaudible 00:05:18] aging, everybody’s doing it, which I think is a great tagline. Yeah, I mean, the alternative is kind of bleak, so I think if we don’t admit we’re aging, or we at least don’t want to age, then we don’t want to be here, right? So, we need to become a little bit more comfortable with that term.

Jon: Yeah, do you think there’s some unique challenges or perspectives that millennials...

From the battlefield to brain health. Healthcare Technology innovation comes from many different sources. Learn how lessons treating wounded soldiers led one engineer to move from developing equipment to protect the brain to leading a team dedicated to making the brain healthy.After more than 20 years in engineering, Leanne Young joined the Center for BrainHealth to lead its Brain Performance Institute. Prior to joining the Brain Performance Institute, Leanne ran a division of Applied Research Associates, as a defense contractor, and helped establish human vulnerability as a core business area for that company.She worked with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to lead the first clinical trials of blast-induced brain injuries and, working with the Office of Naval Research, she led the development of a computer model for planning the medical response to a blast attack on a ship.

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Good Word For Caregivers

God cares for caregivers. Remember, he's one, too. Say, are you feeling in the shadows right now, just where's the sunshine of life, where's the brightness of it all? You just feel like you're in the shadows? Well, he can lift you up above those shadows. Those may be fearful shadows, but I'll tell you, you can get high above it, and I like what Isaiah in the 40th chapter says, that, "Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength and they will soar on wings like eagles." Hey, would you like to soar like an eagle today? Well, God wants to help you do that.

You may not feel like you can even get off the ground because caregivers, sometimes, are just tired and weary and worn out, and I don't even know if I have the strength to fly. Well, he can help you fly. I guarantee you that the Lord is with you now. Recognize that, know that he can give you that extra so you can take wings like an eagle and fly above, be lifted above the shadows of life. That's such good news, isn't it? I'm so glad to share it with you. Don't forget, God cares for caregivers. And remember, he's one, too.

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Today, it’s my privilege and honor to have Dr. Leanne Young. She has 20 years of experience in engineering. She actually started her career with the Department of Defense, and she was studying the effects of explosive and bomb blasts and how to help our soldier to be able to survive from these types of wounds and injuries and how to better prepare and develop equipment that would allow them to sustain these types of explosions. Well, after leaving the defense department, she worked of the DARPA, and she led the first clinical trials of blast-induced brain injuries, and she led the development of a computer model for planning the medical response to blast attack on a ship. Well, with all of her experience with understanding explosions and how they affect the brain, she then left the department defense and moved to become the executive director at the Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas and she now studies and helps define how people have a healthy brain. What is healthy brain? What can you do to make a healthy brain? Well, Dr. Young, how are you doing?Dr. Leanne Y.: I am doing great. Thank you. Glad to be here.Jon: It’s a pleasure to have you. Looking at your biography, you have a very interesting journey. So you actually started the Department of Defense and engineering and now you’re over here in brain health. Can you just sort of give us a little bit of background and how you got to the Brain Performance Institute?Dr. Leanne Y.: It doesn’t sound like an obvious transition to go from engineering to brain scienc...