Healthcare Speaker, Elaine K. Sanchez, http://EKSanchez.com, author of the unflinchingly honest and uproariously funny book "Letters from Madelyn, Chronicles of a Caregiver", talks about understanding and coping with caregiver anger at the Wisconsin State Alzheimer's Conference in 2010.
Elaine's "Creating a Caring Community" program, which is approved by the NAB for 3.75 CEU's for long-term care administrators and nurses in most states, helps bridge the gap between family and professional caregivers in order to provide the best possible care for the care receiver.
Audiences are moved from tears to belly laughs as Elaine shares real life caregiving stories from two very different women. Elaine's mother, Madelyn Kubin, was a Kansas farm wife who chronicled her six-year caregiving experience through writing letters. Dorothy Tucker was a nurse who kept a journal during the 30 years she worked in nursing homes and on Alzheimer's units.
By comparing and contrasting the caregiver anger, guilt, depression, and grief experienced by both family and professional caregivers, Elaine helps develop a deeper understanding and more compassion between the two types of caregivers.
Elaine frequently delivers keynote speeches, workshops, and seminars for healthcare organizations, family caregiver conferences, and at gerontology conferences.
Through telling real-life caregiving stories, Elaine sheds light on the behavior of persons with Alzheimer's and other dementia-related diseases, and she helps attendees understand how to separate a person's behavior from the disease.
Family and professional caregivers appreciate her honest and compassionate approach to dealing with caregiver anger, guilt, depression, and grief.
In her Caregiver Survival Training workshop, Elaine explains how caregiver anger is actually a normal and predictable response to circumstances over which we have no control. It is considered a secondary emotion. We experience anger as a reaction to fear and/or pain. There is no control in fear and pain, so getting angry actually gives us a way to take some kind of action to counter these emotions. As a caregiver, the list of situations and people with which we can become upset are practically limitless. It's important to know that as a caregiver, you will get angry - that's a given. The good news is that you do have a choice about how you respond to people and situations, and there are a lot of healthy ways to manage caregiver anger.
Her caregiver keynote, entitled "Finding Hope and Humor in Caregiving" is great for after lunch, after dinner, or anytime the audience is in need of a good belly laugh and a big jolt of energy. People say she is a combination between Garrison Keillor and Irma Bombeck, but don't let the entertainment value of her keynotes and workshops fool you - the message for caregivers is serious.
To book Elaine as a speaker for your event, contact Jo Cavender at Speakers on Healthcare: 503-345-9164, Jo@SpeakersonHealthcare.com.
For free articles and caregiver resources, to rent or purchase Elaine's caregiver videos, visit her website at http://www.Elaine@EKSanchez.com
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