Our Council of Caregivers includes:

• Bette, who began caring for her mom in 2002 when the youngest of her three children was nine-months-old;

• Cindy Hoff Drucker, who cares for her dad and is a health care executive with hospital experience;

• Craig Jennings, who cares for his wife, and started a support group for family caregivers at this church;

• Donna Webb, who cared for her mom until her mom’s death in August;

• G-J, who cared for her parents and now cares for her husband, recently diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment;

• Jo, who cares for his parents, as he raises his two teen-agers;

• Kelsey Collins, a Hospice Chaplain with 20-plus years of experience.

Would you like to join our Council and share your knowledge base with family caregivers?

Send Denise an email and include details of your caregiving situation: For whom you care, how long you’ve been a caregiver and an example of how you’ve tackled a tough situation.

In addition, include your area of expertise. Areas of expertise are your qualities, knowledge base and insights that make you a terrific asset for others. Examples of expertise include:

• Alzheimer’s
• Family dynamics
• Managing guilt
• Accepting help
• Patience
• A healthy caregiving perspective
• Getting along with difficult family members
• Finding fun in the day
• Recovering from bad news and bad days
• Providing hands-on care
• Working well with physicians and other medical professionals
• Advocating on behalf of your caree
• Helping from afar
• Raising children while caring for aging relatives

Would you like to give a concern to our Council? Great; just send Denise an email detailing the decision you’re facing or the worry you’re living with. We’ll choose a few members of our Council to join you and Denise on a special episode of Your Caregiving Journey. During the show, we’ll talk about your situation and offer suggestions and ideas. (If you would prefer not to join us on the talk show, we’ll use the contents of your email for our discussion).

Thanks to all!

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