The Caring Generation® | Advice & Tips for Caregivers
Pamela D. Wilson, caregiving expert, offers caregiver advice and tips to navigate the challenges of caring for aging parents and managing health issues related to aging. Receive practical and proven strategies to manage health, financial costs of care, legal matters, and family relationships on each episode. Wilson's 25-year career as an expert witness, geriatric care manager, professional fiduciary, and owner of a home care agency offers unique support for caregivers and solutions for eldercare planning.
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September 8, 2025 • 23 mins
Navigating the challenges in caregiving for aging parents can be daunting, especially when an elderly mother or father wants to move into your home. Pamela D Wilson, caregiving expert, offers caregiver advice on eldercare dilemmas by highlighting the importance of establishing boundaries while also considering the dynamics of family relationships.
Caregivers can fail to recognize the significant impact the decision to live with an ...
Caregivers can fail to recognize the significant impact the decision to live with an ...
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August 25, 2025 • 23 mins
Caregivers often struggle with the emotional and physical drain of caring for an elderly mother, especially when dealing with anxious personalities, physical and mental health concerns. In this episode, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson offers essential caregiver tips and effective strategies for managing challenging caregiving situations. Learn how to set boundaries and communicate directly and honestly to create a better caregivi...
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August 11, 2025 • 27 mins
In this episode, caregiver expert Pamela D. Wilson explores vital strategies for elderly care to protect aging parents and loved ones from family caregiver manipulation. Caregiver manipulation can occur in both directions—where elderly parents manipulate caregivers and vice versa. By recognizing the warning signs of manipulation that result in elder abuse, caregivers can take crucial steps to halt potential control and power imbala...
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July 28, 2025 • 28 mins
In this episode, Pamela D. Wilson, a caregiving expert, offers insights into the critical issue of caregiver burnout —a major concern for both family caregivers and professional caregivers in homes, communities, and nursing facilities. Discover the various aspects of caregiving that contribute to emotional and physical stress for caregivers, and how this stress can adversely affect the caregiving experience and care outcomes.
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July 14, 2025 • 18 mins
Learn effective caregiver strategies to handle the emotional impact of caregiving that comes with unpredictable and uncertain elder care situations. Recognize the importance of caregiver well-being. Pamela D Wilson offers valuable caregiver tips and support for caregivers, emphasizing the importance of emotional health while caring for the elderly. Join Pamela as she explores practical solutions to navigate health concerns and empo...
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July 1, 2025 • 15 mins
This episode addresses the tough decision many adult children face: Is it right to put an elderly parent in a care home against their wishes? Caregiving expert Pamela D. Wilson shares invaluable caregiver tips and eldercare advice to navigate this emotional journey. Gain insights into the importance of creating family caregiving strategies and initiating essential eldercare discussions with aging loved ones.
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June 18, 2025 • 20 mins
Uncover four aspects of underestimating elderly care needs in this episode with caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson. Learn caregiver tips and care strategies to discuss the care and well-being of aging loved ones and prevent caregiver burnout. Recognize how underestimating elderly care can lead to health declines and caregiving challenges. Join Pamela for practical advice for managing the complexities of family caregiving.
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June 3, 2025 • 19 mins
Stop feeling pressured by elderly parents to take on additional caregiving tasks. Pamela D. Wilson, a caregiving expert, shares stories of caregivers feeling pressured by elderly parents, siblings, and other family members. Get expert caregiver tips and advice to transform your caregiving story and start saying no to additional eldercare tasks and responsibilities that consume your life.
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May 25, 2025 • 19 mins
Dealing with siblings who refuse to offer to care for elderly parents or those who are overcontrolling can be challenging. Sibling caregiver resentment can be difficult to resolve unless all siblings are willing to work together to help a parent they love. Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares how siblings can create working relationships to care for elderly parents on episode 219 of The Caring Generation® podcast.
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May 6, 2025 • 18 mins
Discover 9 questions to reveal your caregiver stress level, and so you can improve your caregiving skills and responses. Are you a stressed-out caregiver? The nine questions in this caregiver stress survey can help you identify habits that might be sabotaging your success. This caregiver tool can help you level up your caregiving, communication, and interpersonal skills. Pamela D Wilson, caregiving expert, shares practical tips an...
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April 21, 2025 • 24 mins
Stop being taken advantage of as a caregiver with these essential tips. A desire to be helpful results in caregivers being taken advantage of. Learn how caregivers are taken advantage of by elderly parents, siblings, and others. Find tips on how to recognize if you are being taken advantage of and get the steps to rebalance caregiving relationships and your life from caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson.
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April 8, 2025 • 20 mins
Sibling agreements over the care of elderly parents can result in conflict. Find tips to navigate these strategies when families become divided. Instead of allowing relationships to become toxic or dwell on constant conflict, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson offers tips to help siblings establish working relationships.
While you may not like your sibling or elderly parents, a sense of duty and responsibility may tie you together. S...
While you may not like your sibling or elderly parents, a sense of duty and responsibility may tie you together. S...
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March 24, 2025 • 31 mins
Learn about the care of elderly A to Z from caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson, who shares information about twenty-six articles and podcasts for adult children and spousal caregivers based on 25 years of professional experience serving older adults and caregivers.
Links to the 26 articles mentioned in this podcast can be found on Pamela's website on The Caring Generation podcast page for Episode 215.
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Links to the 26 articles mentioned in this podcast can be found on Pamela's website on The Caring Generation podcast page for Episode 215.
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March 11, 2025 • 22 mins
If you are a spouse or partner, what should you do before you or your spouse gets sick? If your spouse has health problems or you suspect memory loss, planning becomes time-sensitive.
Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares the importance of care discussions and offers a practical list of nine recommendations to help you prepare for what’s ahead. Know the basics of planning, whether you are living alone and caring for yourself, car...
Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares the importance of care discussions and offers a practical list of nine recommendations to help you prepare for what’s ahead. Know the basics of planning, whether you are living alone and caring for yourself, car...
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February 24, 2025 • 19 mins
What rights does a person with dementia have? People with dementia become more vulnerable when memory loss advances. How can you make sure that you or a loved one with dementia maintain basic human rights to be treated with dignity and respect when you need care?
Pamela D Wilson, caregiving expert, shares definitions and stories to illustrate the experiences of persons with dementia who can lose their human right to make choices an...
Pamela D Wilson, caregiving expert, shares definitions and stories to illustrate the experiences of persons with dementia who can lose their human right to make choices an...
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February 11, 2025 • 17 mins
Are you a caregiver living life and feeling trapped taking care of someone else who is sick? If you are a sick person who needs care, you might be tired of doctors or your caregiver telling you what to do so that you can feel better.
Have you heard the saying that the grass always looks greener on the other side? Well, that’s until you get to the other side. Pamela D Wilson, caregiving expert shares two scenarios of caregivers and c...
Have you heard the saying that the grass always looks greener on the other side? Well, that’s until you get to the other side. Pamela D Wilson, caregiving expert shares two scenarios of caregivers and c...
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January 28, 2025 • 19 mins
Elderly parents and loved ones with dementia can lose their language skills and verbal communication abilities. They may speak, but their words don’t make sense. This speaking and not making sense is called "word salad dementia." It's like mixing up a bunch of words and trying to make a sentence out of them.
What can family members do to maintain relationships with loved ones with dementia when words no longer make sense? In this we...
What can family members do to maintain relationships with loved ones with dementia when words no longer make sense? In this we...
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January 14, 2025 • 18 mins
Is your sibling abusing power of attorney for an elderly parent? Learn how to prevent sibling abuse of power of attorney when your sibling is named as the sole agent or when you share the power of attorney agent duties, especially if you don't fully trust your brother or sister.
In episode 210 of The Caring Generation podcast, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares her professional experience with power of attorney challenges in f...
In episode 210 of The Caring Generation podcast, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares her professional experience with power of attorney challenges in f...
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December 30, 2024 • 17 mins
Nursing homes and assisted living discharges from facilities happen for various reasons. While patients believe they have a right to care, these rights only go so far when insurance companies set limits or patient behaviors cause safety risks for staff or residents.
Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares her experiences with nursing homes and care community discharges so that aging adults and family caregivers can learn how to avo...
Caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares her experiences with nursing homes and care community discharges so that aging adults and family caregivers can learn how to avo...
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December 18, 2024 • 18 mins
Caregivers do a lot of hard things. Doing the hard stuff, like having care discussions in the family or making difficult decisions, can be emotionally stressful and guilt-filled.
In episode 208 of the Caring Generation podcast, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares:
1) how to understand when a problem or question is more complex than it looks, which is often the case in caregiving,
2) how emotions and feelings of guilt impact doing...
In episode 208 of the Caring Generation podcast, caregiving expert Pamela D Wilson shares:
1) how to understand when a problem or question is more complex than it looks, which is often the case in caregiving,
2) how emotions and feelings of guilt impact doing...
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