29 min
Shift Your Focus- Coach Rather Than Do A Season of Caring Podcast
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- How To
Rayna Neises, your host, speaks with Angie Rischpater. Angie is an occupational therapist with over 20 years of experience. She helps family caregivers by teaching both a preventative and restorative approach to care which allows the caregiver to live a life beyond caregiving. While still working part-time in acute care at a hospital, Angie also offers private and group caregiver coaching. In addition, she writes and is a webinar host for Caregiving.com. Angie shares her mission, to ensure that caregivers have the power to design their experience using a therapeutic perspective, and provides the following insights:
(6:53) Don’t do everything for them. Instead, coach the person toward greater mobility, cognition, and independence.(10:00) Think about how you can work towards a common goal with the person you are caring for.(13:08) Figure out which deficit area is impacting you most.(16:00) Eliminate the barrier areas.(17:06) Become more of a coach than a caregiver.(21:00) Falls are almost always avoidable.(25:00) Investing upfront to get your time back in the end. (26:08) Make every activity that you can into a therapeutic event.(27:47) Find Angie on Facebook at Caregiver By Design (https://www.facebook.com/caregiverbydesign/), on TikTok, and on her podcast (Caregiver by Design) where ever you get your podcasts.Thank you for what you do!
Rayna Neises, your host, speaks with Angie Rischpater. Angie is an occupational therapist with over 20 years of experience. She helps family caregivers by teaching both a preventative and restorative approach to care which allows the caregiver to live a life beyond caregiving. While still working part-time in acute care at a hospital, Angie also offers private and group caregiver coaching. In addition, she writes and is a webinar host for Caregiving.com. Angie shares her mission, to ensure that caregivers have the power to design their experience using a therapeutic perspective, and provides the following insights:
(6:53) Don’t do everything for them. Instead, coach the person toward greater mobility, cognition, and independence.(10:00) Think about how you can work towards a common goal with the person you are caring for.(13:08) Figure out which deficit area is impacting you most.(16:00) Eliminate the barrier areas.(17:06) Become more of a coach than a caregiver.(21:00) Falls are almost always avoidable.(25:00) Investing upfront to get your time back in the end. (26:08) Make every activity that you can into a therapeutic event.(27:47) Find Angie on Facebook at Caregiver By Design (https://www.facebook.com/caregiverbydesign/), on TikTok, and on her podcast (Caregiver by Design) where ever you get your podcasts.Thank you for what you do!
29 min