You Are Not Alone: Building Your Care Team.

What happens when someone gets sick, gets older, or is caring for a parent, and no one in their community knows? In this episode of You Are Not Alone: Building Your Care Team, Board Certified Patient Advocate Rachel Nash, MRC, BCPA, talks with Rabbi Hesh Epstein, founding executive director of Chabad Lubavitch of South Carolina, about isolation, the fear of dying alone, and how a faith community can become part of your care team.

This conversation is for everyone, whatever you believe or don't believe. Rabbi Hesh shares what he has learned from decades of visiting people in hospitals and homes, what a congregation can actually do when someone is struggling, and why it is okay to ask for help before the crisis, not just during it.

In this episode:

- Why so many Americans feel more isolated today

- What to do if you're sick and haven't told your faith community

- The fear of dying alone, and how to talk about it

- What Chabad is and how it serves families across South Carolina

- How faith and community connect to mental health

- Prayer, hospital visits and simply showing up

- Quiet signs of isolation families should watch for

- The conversations to have before a crisis

CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold open: the fear of dying alone

0:15 Welcome and introduction

2:46 Why Americans feel more isolated

4:44 If you're sick and haven't told your community

6:44 The fear of dying alone

9:22 What is Chabad?

11:37 Faith, community and mental health

18:23 Rabbi Hesh's story

20:40 Learning to sit with someone who is sick

23:11 Prayer and hospital visits

27:02 What a faith community can actually do

33:57 Loneliness is a health risk

38:05 Quiet signs of isolation

38:59 Technology, AI and staying connected

41:19 Conversations to have before a crisis

43:22 Getting to know Rabbi Hesh

45:23 Takeaways and how to connect

CONNECT WITH RABBI HESH

Chabad of South Carolina: https://www.chabadofsc.com

803-467-3456

CONNECT WITH RACHEL

Nash Patient Advocacy & Consulting

Healthcare navigation, care coordination, insurance appeals and medical billing review for seniors, the sandwich generation and their families across North and South Carolina.

https://www.nashadvocacy.com/contact-nash-patient-advocacy

704-254-1407

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This episode is for educational purposes and is not medical, legal or financial advice.

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