Keep Your Parents at Home: Strategies to Help Parents Age at Home
In this Living to 100 Club Podcast, we discuss a system – with strategies and stories – that helps people prepare to care for their aging parents by allowing them to age in-home. Our guest, Margo Arrowsmith, has three decades of experience in counseling individuals and families. We explore ways that adult children can help their parents make important decisions about their future. We discuss her book, You Can Keep Your Parents at Home. She shares her personal story of helping her father care for her mother. Later, she took on the role of caring for him in her home until his death at age 93. What are the basics of keeping our elderly parents at home? How can we create a team that supports and empowers us in this caregiving role, while maintaining a job, friends, and sanity? We also learn about Margo’s YouTube channel, Age Out Loud. This channel is a place for seniors who know they still have a lot to share with the world.
Mini Bio
Margo Arrowsmith is the author of the book You Can Keep Your Parents at Home and developer of the L.O.V.E system. She is a licensed clinical social worker with years of professional and personal experience with In-Home Parent Care. Margo combines her personal familiarity with aging parents and 35 years of counseling families to present a unique perspective and series of solutions. These solutions assist people across the country and around the world keep their parents at home.
Margo has a master’s degree in Social Work from Hunter College. She has been licensed in clinical social work in New York and North Carolina. When her parents started to get older, Margo got to see first-hand how complicated, confusing, and frustrating it could be to find reliable, affordable care for her parents. What would allow both her and them to continue enjoying each other’s company and maintain the highest possible quality of life? Margo says she is the first person to admit that she made mistakes in trying to provide her parents with care. That is why she is so committed to helping others avoid these potentially painful and expensive mistakes. She is dedicated to helping both aging parents and their children have the best possible experience as parents age.
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Margo’s Book and Website: Keep Your Parents at Home