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Helping Our Parents (HOP) Thrive - Without Losing Ourselves Melissa
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Welcome to the Helping Our Parents Thrive community. We are here to support Adult Children of Parents.
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Ep 5 - A unique approach to address social isolation and loneliness
In this Episode we take a deep dive into ways to address social isolation and loneliness. Kerry Thomas, a gerontologist and the Executive Director of Lifespan Resources. Their signature program pairs university students with older adults who are aging in place at home, via Zoom, believe it or not! Kerry also shares some signs to look out for with our parents with regard to social isolation and loneliness. Enjoy!
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Ep 4 - Beautiful life lessons from a hospice nurse for our parents and ourselves!
Heart warming stories from a retired hospice nurse, plus practical advice for the adult children of seniors. If you don't have time to listen, here are the cliff notes - "Take the Damn Trip"!
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Ep 3 - How can we help our parents be safer at home - The Evaluation
Episode 3 of the Helping Our Parents Thrive podcast takes you through the flow of an actual Senior Home Safety Evaluation that we would conduct Online. Evaluations typically take about 30 minutes to an hour. So make certain that you've given yourself enough time to go through this thoroughly.For background on why a Senior Home Safety Evaluation is important, please check out Episode 2. Together we Thrive!
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Ep 2 - How can we help our parents be safer at home? - The Background
Helping Our Parents Thrive - Episode 2 discusses ways that we can help our parents be a little bit more safe at home, whether in their own home, your home, or assisted living.You will get a bit of background on why this is important, a few conversation starters to help you get your parent's agreement to even do an evaluation AND a story from an actual evaluation that I am certain will inspire you to take action. Even if just baby steps! The next episode, 3, will take you through an actua...
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Ep 1 - Why HOP Thrive?
Melissa takes you through why she was inspired to start this Podcast and this community.
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Customer Reviews
A nourishing (and helpful!) treat!
I loved hearing Melissa’s story about going to her grandparents’ house as a child. Her details about her nanna and poppa brought back memories of my own precious days with my grandparents. I feel like my heart is 5x bigger from hearing this latest episode, and can’t wait to hear more as I consider what my parents’ needs will be in the coming years.
So caring, so needed!
Thank you for creating this podcast, Melissa! You have a heart of good and are the perfect person to walk us through this much needed conversation. Well done :)
Helpful, supportive podcast & community
Thank you, Melissa, for your support with this extremely important topic that impacts so many of us. It’s good to have a person with such integrity and compassion (and podcast) to turn to for information and support.