'Quick Chats for Caregivers' Presentation Series
As Caregivers, we know it is essential to stay up to date with caregiving information and resources. However, with work and life balance, our time is limited. Over the next few months, Life and Work Connections will offer “Quick Chats for Caregivers”, a 30-minute lunchtime virtual series. These collaborative "chats" will feature both the services of community caregiving agencies and essential caregiving topics. “Quick Chats for Caregivers” will offer input on balancing our roles, defining needs, self-care, and accessing support and assistance.
Caregiving and Self-Care: Build in a Balance
Friday, October 15, 2021
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
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For many people who provide care for their loved ones, self-care is an afterthought at best. But it's important for everyone's quality of life for you to invest as much in yourself as you do in others. Dependent care advisor Eileen Lawless, MSW, and Debbie Waring, ThM, MSN, RN, family caregiver support coordinator at the Pima Council on Aging, review warning signs of stress and explore resources, including respite care, to help prevent burnout.
Caregiving and Estate Plans: Protect What Matters!
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
If you have not yet created an estate plan, you may be surprised by how many topics it covers. Join dependent care advisor Eileen Lawless, MSW, and Nick Maly, CFP, director and retirement planner at Fidelity Investments, to learn five steps to help protect your family and your assets.
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The Organized Caregiver: Documenting and Honoring Wishes
Friday, December 3, 2021
12:00 pm -12:30 pm
Caregivers offer support to their loved ones in myriad ways, and that often includes the coordination and planning of current and future care. Dependent care advisor Eileen Lawless, MSW, and Carla Sutter, MSW, director of the Arizona Healthcare Directives Registry at Health Current, offer approaches for coordinating, communicating, and delegating medical and legal directives, end-of-life wishes, and other important documents. Sutter will also introduce the new online Arizona advance directory registry.
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For any questions about the presentations, or if you have questions you that would like to ask prior to any of the scheduled presentations, please email me at elawless@arizona.edu. I look forward to seeing you at "Quick Chats for Caregivers!"
For more information about the series, as well as other Life and Work Connections presentations and events, visit us at Life and Work Connections.