Wisdom Wednesday: Aging Wisdom's Podcast
Welcome to Wisdom Wednesday, a short, bite-size podcast offering weekly wisdom and insights for aging well, caring well, and living well.
We have a lot to celebrate this month. In addition to May being National Aging Life Care Month and Older Adults Month, our colleague Wendy Nathan celebrates ten years with Aging Wisdom! If you are familiar with our team, you know our paths to Aging Life Care are varied, but we share a mutual mission: […]
Aging Life Care Managers®, sometimes called geriatric care managers, are strategic planners with key knowledge in crisis intervention, housing, health and disability, advocacy, family, legal, financial, and local resources. We are advisors who work with individuals and their families to help navigate the complexities and issues that arise with a change in health, aging, and dementia, in particular.
“Transformation happens when someone feels safe and seen and heard. And when people are recognized as who they are rather than what they’re living with or a diagnosis they’ve been given,” reflects Tami Sandygren, Care Manager Associate.
Whenever there’s an opportunity to return to what brings a client joy, we’ll go there in some capacity. Quality of life and well-being are at the heart of our work.
As we grow older, we all experience cognitive change. Our brain, like the rest of our body, naturally changes as we age. Changes in cognition can be subtle and most changes are normal. Misplacing keys or taking longer than usual to recall a person’s name or a word are common examples. There are times, however, when we notice changes that a consistent, repetitive, and may suggest cognitive impairment.
Geriatric Care Managers wear many hats: team member, navigator, diplomat, advocate, collaborator. Additionally, the services and supports they provide are not cookie cutter solutions, but tailored to each client’s needs, finances, and goals.
Herb’s Final Tip in this digital world: “There’s no undo button if you give somebody your so security number if you type in your bank account number. Whatever it is and push submit. It’s gone. There’s no getting it back. So you have to stop and think on the front end if you’re not sure just put them on hold.”
In this episode, ConsumerMan Herb Weisbaum has urgent, important advice regarding scam calls. Any of us can be scammed!
Our special guest again this week (and for the next two episodes) is ConsumerMan Herb Weisbaum, one of America’s top consumer experts. Known nationally as ConsumerMan, Herb’s been protecting consumers for more than 40 years. Check below for Herb’s website and newsletter information. Herb does a lot of stories that look out for older adults. ConsumerMan […]
Our special guest this week (and for upcoming episodes) is ConsumerMan Herb Weisbaum, one of America’s top consumer experts. Known nationally as ConsumerMan, Herb’s been protecting consumers for more than 40 years. Check below for Herb’s website and newsletter information. Herb does a lot of stories that look out for older adults. ConsumerMan is a font […]