After Your Caregiving Journey: Recent Episodes
AfterGiving
How do you transition to life after caregiving ends? We share tips, ideas and support on After Giving talk show.
Susan, who cared for her mom, joins us to share what her first year after caregiving ended was like.
After your caree dies, you work to close out an estate, to sort through possessions, to change bank accounts. How do you reconcile what happened during caregiving? How do you close out the quetions and the challenges that you face? Janet Cromer will join Denise to share her thoughts about reconciling what happened during caregiving after caregiving ends. About Janet: Janet Cromer, RN, MA, LMHC is a psychiatric RN and national speaker on stress and trauma resilience and family caregiver issues. Janet cared for her husband, Alan, for seven years following his severe brain injury. She wrote an award winning memoir about their experience, Professor Cromer Learns to Read: A Couple's New Life after Brain Injury. Janet also cared for her mother until she died of cancer.
What's life like during the first year after caregiving ends? The first year includes grieving, transitioning, adjusting. Denise speaks with Janet Cromer about how she managed the first year after her husband died. Janet Cromer, RN, MA, LMHC is a psychiatric RN and national speaker on stress and trauma resilience and family caregiver issues. Janet cared for her husband, Alan, for seven years following his severe brain injury. She wrote an award winning memoir about their experience, Professor Cromer Learns to Read: A Couple's New Life after Brain Injury. Janet also cared for her mother until she died of cancer.
Even when caregiving ends with good news (a cure), the transition to life after can be tough. Claire Steichen talks about how confusing and crazy life was for her when her father reached his five-year cancer-free mark.