David C. Grabowski, PhD, is a professor of health care policy in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. His research examines the economics of aging with a particular interest in the areas of long-term care and post-acute care. From 2017-2023 Dr. Grabowski was a member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), which is an independent agency established to advise the U.S. Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program. He joins Daughterhood Founder Anne Tumlinson and I in discussing how policy affects nursing home quality, the fragmentation of payments in the LTC system, staffing requirements, accountability and how to advocate for change.

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Dr. Kalisha Bonds Johnson is an Assistant Professor on the Tenure track at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her BSN, MSN and PhD in nursing and specializes as a Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. In 2019, she earned her Ph.D. from Oregon health and science university where her studies focused on how the caregiving experiences of African American dementia pairs (i.e. , African American persons living with dementia and their African American family caregivers) were associated with their quality of life. In our conversation today we discuss her past and current research regarding African American dementia caregivers and their care partners, the challenges of accessing needed services, the disparity in healthcare, and the important need for support.

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As a senior living expert, Star Bradbury has helped thousands of families make educated and informed decisions as they navigate the world of senior living and senior healthcare. Based on her 25 years of real-world experience, Star’s book, Successfully Navigating Your Parents’ Senior Years, offers a comprehensive guide that walks families through developing a flexible proactive plan that focuses on keeping loved ones independent for as long as possible no matter their age. In our conversation Star shares examples of How to talk to resistant parents who will not discuss their condition or their future plans, making those plans, aging in place, differences between life care communities, assisted living and skilled nursing and how to decipher it all.

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Sue Ryan has been in roles of family caregiving for more than 40 years. Her mission is to empower individuals to maximize and accept the potential opportunities that change will bring. As Sue shares, We’re continuously in transitions – the process of going from where we are to what’s next in our lives. Whether we’re choosing the change – or the change is happening to us – intentionally navigating transitions in each area of our life means changing from ending up somewhere we may not want to be to waking up feeling confident and secure, knowing what we want and how to achieve it. In this episode, we discuss recognizing what is, giving ourselves permission, how to access our strengths, how our unconscious thoughts add to our patterns and how Massive Acceptance and Radical Presence are the keys to ultimate freedom.

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Today Anne and Rosanne are joined by Karen Kavanaugh senior director, Strategic Initiatives at the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers. She leads the development and launch of the institute’s initiatives designed to expand supports to strengthen caregiver health, resilience, and wellbeing. Her portfolio includes Working While Caring, and initiatives designed to deepen the research on effective workplace supports for caregivers and to expand access to those supports. She is also leading RCI’s caregiving typology and bereavement initiatives. We discuss the challenges that affect caregiving employees, employer viewpoints and ideas and policy changes that can help.

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Marty Stevens-Heebner is the Founder & CEO of Clear Home Solutions and an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and podcast host. She is also the President of NASMM (the National Association of Senior & Specialty Move Managers), with certifications in Senior and Specialty Move Management, Professional Organizing, and Aging in Place. Clear Home Solutions was the first nationally accredited firm in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. She was also the first Certified Senior Move Manager in the country. Today we discuss all aspects of moving, organizing, sorting, how to navigate a hoarding situation, moving someone with dementia, the process of where to start when it comes to moving and taking care of yourself along the way. 

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Palliative care - the often misunderstood, under utilized, yet empowering option in medicine. Today my guest is Dr Caitlin Barron an internal medicine physician specializing in palliative care at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington and co-founder and chief medical director of EpioneMD. She also serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Palliative Medicine. Her clinical interests include palliative care in oncology and population community-based palliative care. Above all else, Dr Baran feels privileged to care for patients faced with serious illness, ideally working to help them live as well as possible. Today we discuss the confusion over palliative care, helpful questions to ask your care partner and their providers, and how palliative care can empower caregivers and their care partners.

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Barry Jacobs is a clinical psychologist, medical educator and writer fostering the well-being of families coping with serious and chronic medical illnesses. Barry is the author of The Emotional survival Guide for Caregivers and co-authored with his wife Julia L Mayer, AARP Meditations for Caregivers and AARP Love and Meaning after 50. Since 2013 he has been a blogger on family caregiving and relationships for AARP.org. In today’s podcast, Barry and I discuss the challenges of caregiving with siblings. He offers strategies on dealing with those who don’t or won’t help, the micromanagers, how past family dynamics play a part in the sibling friction, animosity and how to continue on after caregiving ends. 

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This is a bonus episode of Daughterhood The Podcast. 

At Daughterhood, we hear your challenges in navigating the healthcare system and how it can be both frustrating and disheartening. 

In each of these bonus episodes, I have the pleasure of speaking with Daughterhood Founder Anne Tumlinson where we will bring the caregiving conversation to a different level with change leaders and policy experts. 

Today with speak with Dr. Joanne Lynn. A geriatrician, hospice physician, health services researcher, quality improvement advisor, and policy advocate who has Published over 300 peer-reviewed medical research and policy articles.

Our conversation covers the looming crisis, the unpredictability of care, the necessity of change in policy regarding long-term care, how older Americans are viewed, and strategies all of us can use to change policy.

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This is a bonus episode of Daughterhood The Podcast. At Daughterhood, we hear your challenges in navigating the healthcare system and how it can be both frustrating and disheartening. In each of these bonus episodes, I have the pleasure of speaking with Daughterhood Founder Anne Tumlinson where we will bring the caregiving conversation to a different level with change leaders and policy experts. Today with speak with Dr. Joanne Lynn. A geriatrician, hospice physician, health services researcher, quality improvement advisor, and policy advocate who has Published over 300 peer-reviewed medical research and policy articles. Our conversation covers the looming crisis, the unpredictability of care, the necessity of change in policy regarding long-term care, how older Americans are viewed, and strategies all of us can use to change policy.

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