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Gen Z As Elder Caregivers

1/26/2023

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I just finished reading the Esquire article, The Silent Epidemic Affecting Generation Z, by By Anna Altman

The above-listed article describes the elder caregiving bind which has fallen on Gen Z’s and its effects on their education, career development and forming families of their own.  I dedicated my working life to finding solutions to eldercare; the-Gen Z caregivers issue was something I hadn't encountered until now; WOW!

I worry about the Gen Z's being able to finish school, form families of their own, and move ahead in their careers. Unless we address this issue, our society will have a sad experiment in the affects of stress on the young.

None of their goals are selfish; they are integral to the forward motion of our society. A better-educated younger generation will be more likely to have income to afford help for them in the future. Promotions at work helps secure their future and may grant benefits in their payment package as they become more "valuable" to their employers. Forming families of their own is the key to creating the next generation who will take over those jobs and help care for the Gen Z’s when they need it.

These kinds of help today are NOT COSTS; they are INVESTMENTS in our country's future. We need to look at society's investment in these younger caregivers as though we are planting an orchard, not planting a crop. A crop is harvested at the end of the season, short term result. An orchard takes more years to reach production. However, it also produces more valuable 'crops" for a longer period of time.

Let’s not cut down these young ones before we have all benefited from what they could do to “feed’ this country.

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Employers Need to Have a Plan to Support Employees That Are Adult Caregivers

1/17/2023

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In "Companies need to do more for adult caregivers. Here’s why," by Darya Moldavskaya, the author touches on several points that have frustrated my clients who are, or were, caregiving adult children. Elder caregivers constantly juggle their work-family-household-AND-Mom lives.  Introducing the topic through a Lunch-and-Learn format is great because the company already has the employees there. Now that Zoom is ubiquitous, employees who work  split weeks can still attend those L-and-L's. 
 
Senior Sidekicks' Parenting Preparedness course is formatted to fit into a luncheon series: Preparing to Parent You Parent. 

I recommend that companies bring adult caregivers, as well as Caregivers Emeritae (those whose elders have passed away) into the process to develop an Elder Caregiver Support Benefit Package.


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Discussions of Stress Need To Cover Caregivers.

12/2/2019

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The Strange Psychology of Stress and Burnout, which appeared in BBC WorkLife’s November 17, 2019 post, discusses the relationship of stress to Cortisol; important.  The article described several results or diseases that begin with exposure to prolonged stress.  It also mentioned some situations that can cause stress but left one out; caregiving! Already, 34.9 million people are self-identified caregivers.  In addition, some people are starting to do caregiving and don’t realize they’re in this new role; yet. 

This article shows the photo of a man; yet 66.5% of caregivers are women.  The photo shows multiple phones.  Yes, many caregivers have spent time on the phone to coordinate care for the elder.  However, caregivers face the competition of simultaneously dealing with home, job, and possible child care while doing caregiving!  The focus of the article is on job-related stress.  Caregivers bring their stress to work with them.  Thus, what looks like job burn-out might be a result of simultaneous stressors; job and caregiving.

The remedy described in the article involves changing the perception  of the person under stress; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and changing jobs or shifting responsibilities.  Sadly, these are not usually available to the family caregiver.  She may not have insurance coverage for therapy.  Group insurance plans may not recognize family caregiving as a stressor worthy of intervention.  How does the working caregiver access therapy?  She has no “off-duty” time.  She goes from the career job over to the home “job”. 

It’s time for all of us to make sure caregivers as SEEN and heard.

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What Happens When There’s No One To Care For Our Elders?

8/31/2019

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“‘This will be catastrophic’: Maine families face elder boom, worker shortage in preview of nation’s future,” from The Washington Post, could be a description of a dystopian movie: it’s not. This is the state of State of Maine, which is the harbinger of things to come for the rest of these 50 United States.  We need to listen to this alarm.

We’re facing a demographic dilemma: not enough young people to fill all jobs, even those outside of elder care.  We need them now!  Where do we get them?  We can’t hire them because they were never born!  Thus, current workers remain on the job long after it’s safe or appropriate.  Results include accumulated injuries to workers who keep doing injurious jobs. Even the field of healthcare can’t find enough workers or volunteers.

The State of Maine has learned that there is no one available to fill home care jobs.  There is no one to fill care facility jobs either.   Professional fields have the same problem; many of the number of nurses and doctors are now older and there are not enough of them it is  and there’s no one to replace them.

Medicaid pays far less than other employers, drawing the few workers away from elder care. However, simply raising wages won’t help if there are not enough people to hire!

Maine is already experiencing the results, some facilities closed altogether.  Others closed admissions for months due to too few staff.  No vacancies in care facilities means families must place their loved ones wherever they can.  A loved one far away means a l-o-n-g commute to visit.  Younger, disabled people also get caught in this care-crunch.  If no one is available, some adult children try to fill the gap. Those care gaps further pressure the few remaining working adult children.

Keep this number in mind:

*By 2030, 1 in 5 Americans will be over 60.  

*The number of seniors will DOUBLE between 2015 and 2050.  

*The senior population over 85 will TRIPLE in that same period. 
 
**We will need 7.8 MILLION new people to fill these jobs.  Since we didn’t give birth to them; where do we get them?

This isn’t as riveting as a news story as a fire, or a shooting, that’s the problem.  The numbers of affected families are there, but they aren’t collected (aggregated).  This problem is spread everywhere.

We’re in a presidential campaign yet no candidate is talking about this national problem. Why? This demographic dilemma is happening one family at a time: Your family is next.



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Why should family caregivers lose wages?

8/19/2019

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 The Reuter's article, U.S wages lost to unpaid family care to hit $147 billion by 2050, describes lost wages and pressure on caregivers to switch to part time work or quit all together.  These are definable numbers which the article describes well.  One doesn’t hear enough about these issues and costs in the news media.  I call upon anyone who knows a caregiver to insist on better public discussion on these caregiving issues/ costs/pressures.

I've always worried that caregivers also lost opportunity as well as wages.  They are less likely to be offered new projects at work which can polish one's resume.  They can’t take the lateral move which puts the employee in line to move up in a branch of the organization.  A promotion comes with more demands on time and a different schedule.  How can the working caregiver manage that?  Promotions may mean a move out 0f town; how does a caregiver juggle that?  So less chances to rise in a career.

In addition, caregivers suffer hidden damages to their careers. 
 
Just taking repeated PTO (Paid Time Off) casts a shadow over one's career.  Eventually, PTO runs out.  When PTO runs out, the employee is left with FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act).  That is usually unpaid.  The employed caregiver must consider loss of income along with caregiving pressures.
  
I'm also a member of Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and read their daily dispatches.  It appears that employers are more comfortable allowing the employed caregiver a block of time, like a week or two, to handle a health crisis.  Piecemeal time tracking is another matter. There are some tracking systems, however, these seem to be evolving methods. 
 
The employed caregiver may need to use her time in piecemeal form.  Perhaps she takes her lunch time to supervise the elder taking medications.  Her commuting time would be deducted from PTO or FMLA   That's the typical shape of elder caregiving, a mosaic of times and tasks squeezed together throughout the day. 
 
So both the employed caregiver and her employer are both carrying this process.   The caregiver is doing the tasks and the HR manager is handling the administration.  This produces an implicit time cost to the employer.  Why would the caregiver’s boss consider her for special projects, a move, or a promotion?  These would demand more of her time and the employed caregiver doesn't appear to have any time.  In order to develop one's career, one must appear to be ready and willing as well as able.  No employer really knows whether any employee is truly available.  However, a string of PTO/FMLA requests create an image of less availability.  It’s a subtle form of job “loss” that doesn’t show on the paycheck.

Only the US and England have a patchwork-to-none system for dealing with our aging population.  Other European countries have created caregiving support systems.  Why aren’t we looking at them?
 
 



 

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Why don’t we recognize and support caregivers?

8/8/2019

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According to The Strange Political Silence On Elder Care, the problem is our society has an extraordinary number of caregivers who haven’t formed a  group to push for change. Unlike other groups, such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), caregivers should have formed a constituency to insist on changes which better support them; but they haven’t.  Why not?  One surprising finding is that caregivers don’t recognize themselves!  How can our society offer support to a person who denies needing help?  How can we help if they believe they can’t ask?  What is the effect of this lack of coalescing, lack of self-identification and the resulting failure to prepare and plan?

This article describes the possible reasons:
  1. Caregivers help in private, not seen by the public.
  2. There’s no “bad guy” like big banks failing during the financial crisis.  The bad guys become a rallying cry to bring others to a cause.
  3. Many caregivers think they’re the only one; so there is no one to call.
  4.  Many caregivers believe it’s their duty and a “family matter”.
  5. Political support doesn’t divide along party lines; it divides between those who were caregivers –vs- those who never did caregiving.

Senior Sidekicks has stood with caregivers for the past 12 years! The caregiving phase is the newest part of life’s journey. A little over 100 years ago, people didn’t live long enough to reach this stage. Our firm has struggled to get new caregivers and those in the midst of caregiving to accept help. Perhaps this article explains why people, who are otherwise prudent, take such a strange view of caregiving.

Let’s compare and contrast caregiving attitudes with attitudes to other parts of life’s journey:

Your getting married, do you make plans? What kind of a wedding would you have if you didn’t acknowledge you were engaged? How would you bring your lives together in marriage: legal, financial, religious, integrating your families, where to live,  and children?

My parents, like many during WWII, had a hurry-up wedding. They were high school sweethearts, and engaged in college. When my father finished his course work and ROTC, he was shipped to Texas. The university mailed his diploma. My mother took the train to Texas and they were married by a preacher on base. They had 3 weeks of wedded bliss before he shipped out for 3 years!

Mother went home to a fire storm! Both sets of parents were in shock. Mother had not completed her college education; could she go back and finish? Would the all-girls school take her back as a married woman? Neither of my parents had completed paperwork naming her his spouse? Forms and letters took a long time to reach soldiers in the field and even longer to receive replies. Who would be the listed next-of-kin in the event he didn’t come home? She even had to discuss possible burial arrangements!! Who was now responsible to pay for her education? Was she to receive his pay since she was his spouse? Mother described it as a very trying time that she had to face alone because they didn’t plan.

Weddings are as much a family matter as caregiving. A wedding, without planning, causes major stress. Caregiving, without planning and support also causes major stress. Yet, families will tell me they’ll handle it all by themselves: really?

Let’s look at another example:

You’re having a baby! Does that mean you don’t need any help? If you’re expecting do you still need proper medical care, resolve legal matters, insurance, or a larger place to live? We expect that expectant parents need help. We’ve developed the social systems to provide it. Having children brings many resources into the family. There are Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for both parents in certain situations. There are prepared childbirth classes, visiting nurses to the home after delivery and new mother’s groups. Relatives come to help the new mother and baby. Everybody sends food!

It’s acceptable to have help for babies, why not for caregivers? The difference is we’ve had babies for millennia; caregivers, less than 100 years.
 
Thus, the family caregiver may or may not receive some defacto help from her church, neighbors, or friends. There’s no visiting nurse system. The caregiver can take FMLA but it’s complicated and doesn’t always cover the type of caregiving the employee needs to give the elder. Many FMLAs don’t pay the employee. Caregiving may mean moving the elder closer to the caregiver, or moving in with the elder. Caregiving may be so demanding that it afflicts the caregiver’s health. The caregiver may be forced to quit the job. A break in the caregiver’s career creates a major financial setback as the caregiver tries to re-enter the workforce. Caregivers often draw on their retirement savings during caregiving.

Other developed countries have seen this writing on the wall and started putting plans in place. Why can’t the US do that? We can, if we act now.

You can do two things:


  1. A WAKE-UP CALL to all persons who are not yet in the caregiving situation.  If you read these blogs, you are already attuned to caregiving.  Lend your voice to the call for caregiver support.

Talk to your neighbors. Ask what your church is doing for caregivers? Ask your employer the same thing. FMLA, by itself, is not an adequate response.) Are you a member of a union; put caregiver support on the bargaining table. We already have mandatory courses in sexual harassment and discrimination.  Make caregiving training the next mandatory course. Are you an employer? If you prepare for tornadoes; prepare for this gray tsunami. By 2030, 1 in 5 Americans will be over age 60

ENTER THE POLITICAL DEBATE ON THE SIDE OF CAREGIVERS: It’s time to insist that the political conversation of this campaign is about  p-r-e-p-a-r-i-n-g for this gray tsunami!  It touches everyone.  It’s not red or blue, it’s GRAY.  Candidates will ask for your vote; tell them to put caregiving in their platform to get your vote!

Caregiving is at least as important as any other policy

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I Forgot To Tell The Doctor

9/24/2018

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One of my patients recently complained. I asked her what her doctor said.  She told me she had forgotten to tell her doctor.  She told me that she had become used to the problem and “accepted” it. Many senior-related articles advise writing down symptoms and questions before visiting the doctor.  Good advice; as far as it goes.  It’s the stuff that falls off the radar that could be the most important.  The doctor needs information from the patient or the patient’s advocate.  That information is the basis to decide which questions/tests to pursue.

What kind of information doesn’t get to the doctor?
  1. Things to which the senior has become accustomed.
  2. Things that seem unimportant to the senior. 
  3. Things that the senior believes can’t be helped anyway.
When a senior has a low back pain every morning that goes away, it’s no longer an issue. That has many causes and not something to ignore. When the senior dismisses a symptom they will probably not report. Earlier this year, one of my patients dismissed his repeated shortness of breath. I insisted that he report it or I would call his doctor and report it myself! Only such a drastic remark “motivated” him to tell his doctor. He only did so after his physical. His doctor called him back and ran a test. He was sent to the hospital immediately. A month later, he underwent open heart surgery! Then, there are the symptoms seniors believe can’t be helped. When seniors were younger, perhaps certain conditions did not have effective treatments. With such a world view, getting the full picture may take some work on your part. I find my biggest challenge is to help the senior accept that new options are truly available. Then, I gather information to form a symptom picture. By the way, gathering data is one of the topics we cover in Senior Sidekicks’ course, Preparing to Parent Your Parent. We’ve designed this with caregiver convenience in mind.
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Please Complain!

9/21/2018

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Age is a stage of life, not a diagnosis.  Sadly, some seniors think is a diagnosis.  Seniors may accept pain or changes in their bodies as “just getting old”.  Pain is a symptom.  It’s our body’s way of telling us (at any age) that something isn’t working.  Please take your senior’s complaints seriously, even if all they say is; “I don’t feel good.” That complaint is a place to start. Repeated complaints indicate a persistent problem.  I use three points to examine complaints: frequency, intensity, and duration.  How often do they complain?  How long have they complained?  Do they report things are worse or better than earlier?  Doctors analyze these kinds of information to help them decide what questions to ask next.  Please complain; it’s helpful.

Some seniors believe they shouldn’t complain. You may need to explain to them that this is a report on their health rather than an annoyance.  Some seniors complain without words.  Does the face contort?  Does the voice tighten?  Do they seem more irritable at certain times of the day?  Something’s going on. Ask them to please complain to you out loud.

Earlier this year I knew something was “off” within me.  I went to the doctor but the lab tests were inclusive. Nevertheless, I persisted.  I tracked what I felt and when.  I brought this information back to the doctor and insisted on considering other options. Eventually my pattern was clear enough to prompt the doctor to ask other questions. I received a new medication and it worked!  I complained, but really I was advocating for myself.   Some seniors cannot self-advocate.  That’s why caregivers are so important. Please persist if the first treatment doesn’t work.   Please complain for them.  

By the way; this is a portion of my course; Preparing to Parent Your Parent.  Senior Sidekicks can bring this course to your church at a time convenient to you. 

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Why Do Caregivers Need Self Care?  Part three

8/27/2018

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Imagine you’re sitting quietly in a meeting or religious services; suddenly your heart starts pounding. You feel like your blood is coursing through the veins in your arms and legs. It’s bewildering and scary: Why?!  There is nothing about this setting that calls for such a reaction.  Yet, you have this reaction. It is important that caregivers understand what leads to this reaction  and what they can do about it.

It’s a “fight or flight response gone wrong.  It developed when we had to run away from Saber Tooth Tigers.  Our ancestors were successful, that’s why we’re here.  Those ancestors passed down to us their methods of coping with their world.  Our modern world doesn’t have the same kinds of stressors, especially for caregivers.  Our stressors are less clearly defined  And they last longer.  Our stressors change shape; one minute we’re dealing with the house-the spouse-the kids-and-the job.  Then there’s a crisis and we’re caregivers for Mom!  From that point forward, our caregiving increases but with no way to know when the need will become greater or how long caregiving will last. 

Our bodies respond as our ancestors’ once did; we produce Cortisol to rise to this crisis.  The process goes like this: Stress causes the Hypothalamus to secrete.  That triggers the Pituitary Gland to secrete.  The Adrenal gland secretes Cortisol.  This process has several names: HPA Axis, HPA Cascade or Syndrome X, or AKA Insulin Resistive Syndrome.  (Wouldn’t it be helpful if we could all agree on one name?)  It’s not the crisis that’s the problem.   It’s the crisis that doesn’t end that creates bad effects on caregivers.

The effects show up in different ways. Cortisol encourages promotes fat deposits in the outer layer of the body, especially the waist. Some caregivers gain weight.  We can measure this effect by doing a BMI (Body Mass Index). Other caregivers have different conditions; heart disease, Type-2 Diabetes and Stroke.   We can measure Cholesterol levels through a C-Reactive Protein lab test.  We can also do a cheek swab to check Cortisol level. However, how many doctors don’t even ask patients if they are caregivers.   The tests are there but they are not used to evaluate identified caregivers at this time on a general basis. You need to ask for them.

When our bodies rise to meet a crisis: they must also let down.  Even Saber Tooth Tigers would give chase and then give up.   The caregiver’s duties do not end the same way.  In fact, they do not “end” unless we place some “ending points” into the caregiver’s life.  That is the role of self care, to provide end points such as respite and small moments.  That’s why it’s necessary to spread the caregiving load so it doesn’t fall on one person.  That is why we need to enlist family to give caregivers this kind of support. Otherwise, the caregiver can be sitting quietly in religious services and the Cortisol response “alarms” for no exterior reason. We need to advocate for caregivers to be recognized in the medical arena. Learn more by taking our course; Preparing to Parent Your Parent.

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Caring for Yourself: How?  Part Two

8/20/2018

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When someone advises you to, “take care of yourself”; that doesn’t explain how.  Elder caregiving is so new that some methods are still under development.  However, we know some things that work and some to avoid.  Self care does not mean a day at the spa.  For many caregivers such a day would be out of reach financially or out of time to devote to a spa.  Therefore, plan to care for yourself in moments, not hours.  Think about your life like your heart; it beats all the time.  Actually your heart takes a tiny rest between each beat that allows it keep going.  When you care for yourself in moments, you pause and continue.

Try these ideas. Put up a sign saying, I NEED A MOMENT, to remind yourself to pause.  Put up other signs family can see to remind them that you might need a moment before you can respond to their requests.  Is the person in need bleeding or on fire?  If the answer is no, then it’s OK for you to take a moment.  It’s OK to train your family to allow you to do so.  It’s OK for you to ignore repeated pleas for your attention (for a moment).  Training takes time but you’re worth it.

What do you do in that moment?  Be sure you are safe.  If you’re up on a ladder, get down first.  Focus on something blank, like a wall or the ceiling.  Breathe, deeply, through your nose, hold and count to 3 or 4.  Let  your breath out through your mouth but slowly; 1-2-3-4.  Now, if you can afford the time, try looking at something peaceful; out a window, at a picture, or at some memento that is meaningful to you.  Breathe again the same way.

Many caregivers respond with; “I don’t have time to …”   You’re right, time is at a premium.  Most caregivers find themselves in that role at the same point they also have the house-the spouse-the kids-the job-the pets and MOM! You have a lot on your plate.  Sometimes caregivers believe they can wait until they have time.  By waiting until later, the damage from lack of self care will have done its worst.  Undoing damage is much harder. The best intervention is prevention.  Prevention comes in bits of time you claim now.

Suppose you actually have a whole hour to yourself.  It’s a gift!  Ask yourself, “What refreshes me?”  Notice I didn’t say what can I eat nor where can I sit down?   Some caregivers eat to cope with stress.  We need nourishment but not that way.  Rhythmic movement, like walking, can help us feel less worn and is surprisingly refreshing.  If you can’t go far; walk around the house or around the block. If you live in an apartment building, walk in the hall.   “Go get the mail”, that errand will buy you a few minutes.  Try to set a self care routine just as you have set other routines with child care or at work.  Routines help us get things done without doing us in.    

Some things to avoid include sugar and alcohol.  The stress hormone, Cortisol, takes sugar and converts it into weight around your middle.  Sugar may not be sweet; baked goods convert to sugar.  As part of a balanced meal they’re fine; as a snack, not so much.   Large amounts of food can have a numbing effect; like a Thanksgiving dinner.  When we feel numb, our minds seem to turn off.  When you see you have time and turn to the refrigerator; ask yourself why are you eating?  In a similar way, alcohol can create a numb feeling.  We believe we’re relaxed but a caregiver’s immune system is more vulnerable and needs extra protection that alcohol doesn’t provide.  Alcohol is also a depressant, which won’t help caregivers.

So how does one “turn off” the constant “list-making” that goes on in the caregiver’s mind?  Try other things.  Try relaxing teas like Passion Flower, Elder Flower or Chamomile.  Try playing some relaxing music that’s meaningful to you.  Try a rhythmic movement “dance” (try it with your partner).  Try a hot shower or better, a hot bath.  Try placing essential oil of lavender in your bedroom.  All of these set the stage for relaxation.  Develop your own mediation or routine to think about at bed time instead of a to-do list.   There are also tapes available.   So self care comes in moments you claim as your own.  To learn more ways to cope, take our course: 
Preparing to Parent Your Parent.
 
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