Teresa Moerer is a physical therapist, author, coach, and speaker. Her book, The Art of Assisting Aging Parents, is based on her career and the experience of caring for her parents.
While working in multidisciplinary group therapy in skilled rehabilitation, she developed a framework for building the body, brain, and spirit to achieve optimal mobility and personal life. She now uses the scientific-based research behind her training to teach therapists, businesses, and teams how to build and use exceptional experiences to gain peak performance.
Teresa believes that people worldwide can use her Experi-Age™ training as they face the challenge of keeping their parents healthy and aging in place while continuing to manage their personal life and commitments. She also finds superior outcomes with her patients and clients as they not only succeed but grow and thrive into the future.
Teresa and her husband visit their three grown children, and she enjoys gardening, cooking, and oil painting in her spare time.
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good morning everyone i'm amy friesen and this is artful aging with amy here on the show and with my company tea and
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toast the conversation of how to help aging parents often comes up it can be difficult as adult children
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don't want to parent their parents but oftentimes have either issues come
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up with their parents or things that they can foresee happening and a lot of tough conversations um are in the works
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that need to happen and so it's always kind of a tug of war between parents and
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and their adult children when the rules get a little bit reversed so that's always a sticking point that we often
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bring up when we're talking to caregivers or other professionals today on our show i'm speaking with author and
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physical therapist theresa murr in teresa's book the art of assisting aging parents teresa looks to how to build
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strategies and the frameworks around caring for aging parents as a caregiver herself teresa has seen
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firsthand the trials and tribulations of helping her parents age great artfully
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while remaining present in their own life welcome theresa thanks so much for joining me today
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thank you amy it's great to be here maybe we could start off by could you tell our viewers a little bit more about
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you and what inspired you to become an author sure sure um yes i uh well during my
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physical therapy career i was always very very um you know concerned with
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personal development and of course you know and i'm working with pain and function and things like
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that but i also wanted to see my patients develop personally so they could go on to like a higher quality and
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higher level of function so you know during these years and i've been doing this for 37 years but i i
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gained you know i kind of pulled out some tools and techniques and strategies that i thought were really working with
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people and that really resonated with them and one of them was actually um group therapy and where we worked in
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groups together and now even with you know having this pandemic and and losing
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our face-to-face interactions i can see even how it works you know even stronger
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to promote health and wellness so that's what i did and this was about 15 years
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ago when i found found that this worked um i started putting a framework around it and that eventually you know took me
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into writing a book about it because i just saw the need out there and i thought you know i've got something to
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share um i have this method i believe in it so much and you know when
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i was kind of developing it um it wasn't it wasn't really mainstream but i think the great thing about it is
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it's kind of becoming mainstream now you know some of these things i'm talking about it's not um you know it's not a
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foreign it's not like a foreign language to people it's like they they get it and they know that that it works and so i'm
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excited i think the timing is really good to bring this up to people so they can um start using it
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that's excellent i always find that you know when i wrote my book a couple of years ago
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i was looking around and around you're in the states and i'm in canada and so there was a bit a bit more information
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in the states and than there was in canada but still not very much at all and so i was looking at you know for
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caregiver specific there's a lot of self-help stuff there's a lot of you know stuff that's in the realm but not a
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lot in this realm and so i was excited to add something to it and i'm always
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excited that's why i reach out to you because when i find other authors that are writing on this topic
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i want to scream it from the rooftops firstly because i think that this stuff is so valuable
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and and it's readily available in book form right so you know the more resources we can get to people i think
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the better and then they can pick and choose but we've had a number of um authors on the show because i just think
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that there's so little physical information in the industry that you know the more we can
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get it out the better um i find did you find when you wrote your book did you like you were
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um adding obviously um to the conversation but were you also having a little bit of uh trouble finding other
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things kind of similar of yours um yes i i think so and actually just
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you know being in the industry and working with families and patients you know i really i knew a lot about it
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but yeah i i when i was helping my sisters take care of my mom
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um people were coming up to us because she was kind of in a facility that was um in the neighborhood you know so we had a lot of friends there you know but
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they were coming up to us and saying what what do i do with my aging parents you know and so i was just like you know
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there's got to be more information out there for this and i think unfortunately people wait
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until something happens you know i and i would say it's not that we don't want to take care of our
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parents but we're very very busy you know we're raising children um we we have have might have a job
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we're trying to you know take care of our family and our home and um you know
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we really don't want to in a way i'm not saying we don't want to take care of our parents but we just don't want to put
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that on our list of things to do so you know what happens to be when dad falls down the stairs and breaks his hip
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that's when we have to respond you know so um i'm thinking i know we're gonna go kind
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of get into this but really i i what i have is a proactive aging process you
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know and now i'm finding out really and i'm learning like like you said i am learning so much more about my health
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and how to you know preserve my body and my brain and um i i just want to say
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that you know this proactive aging process that i i'm you know putting in my book and i'm teaching
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um is is really that is really we want to be proactive with our aging because
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um you know you don't want to wait till the last minute to be that caregiver that's true and we you know i i and my team at
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tea and toast we speak to caregivers all the time about not waiting until crisis plan be proactive i mean this is what i
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say on almost every one of my shows as well and you know it's true that like a lot
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of people that come to us are in crisis mode and the other ones
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that come to us are waiting for the crisis they're you know they come to us you know to plan but then they wait it
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out and then they waited out too long and they're in crisis and so you know it's this fine mix of stuff but you're
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right it's hard to add another tick list to our our own personal list but also
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you know taking care of your parents means different things for everybody and somebody's list could have one or two
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things and another person's list could have 40 things and it's hard to know what to do and it's hard to know where
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to look and where to start and all that stuff and so all of that stuff makes people overwhelmed and it and it's a
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it's a diff it can be it can be very difficult for many people uh although you know i've been told multiple times
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caregiving is you know very rewarding like a lot of caregivers have said that but that doesn't mean it's not difficult
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it can be both right and so how do we as professionals and caregivers you know share our experience so that people can
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be better prepared for their journeys um you know as i mentioned at the top of
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the show we discuss caregiving quite a bit so i thought it would be really good for you to come on as an expert as well
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as a family caregiver there are a lot of people who listen who have aging parents that are feeling overwhelmed and what's
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like happening or what's about to happen everybody's kind of on the edge and they don't know when things are going to happen
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and there's also a lot of seniors in our audience that haven't really made very many plans for their own life and their
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possible future obstacles so it's important i think for them to hear this too and if anything you know the seniors
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in our audience it's important for them to hear that there's a lot of things that the caregivers their adult children
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have to take care of on their behalf and so kind of whatever they can help with lessens the burden on their kids as well
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which is a message that we talk about all the time but maybe we could talk about how
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can caregivers get through the overwhelm and begin the process of helping their
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parents age artfully what do you think okay yeah um you know and and the
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overwhelm and i'll i will address that first and then i'll address on how to maybe avoid the overwhelm you know but
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if you do if you are in that stage of overwhelm um there's a few things you need to do you need to reach out to your family you
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talk you know to your siblings and have that team meeting and just say you know and and have an
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agenda and just i tell people you know tell them tell your siblings to leave the drama at home you know and so and
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have specific things you want to talk about and specific goals and um you need to get everybody on
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board because this state of overwhelm you need help so really you know put your pride aside
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and ask for help so you know start with your siblings if you have them
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um then and even like neighbors um friends and just say this is a situation
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i'm in i might need a little bit of help i'm you know and they they might start offering well i can i bring over a meal
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can i take your parents to the doctor can i you know in some way help you because this is truly a state where
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you're not able to do it all you know reach out to the medical professionals
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and say you know how can you help me with my parent um can we function you know can they function at a higher level
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um you know why are they falling why are they doing this why are they doing and that you know ask the questions so
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that's you know when you get into overwhelm you just need to start reaching out and
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um you know get to get all the professionals friends family on board and make a plan you know to get to get
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through this and then i'll kind of talk about when you get there you know how to get through this
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absolutely um it's also to you know i just recently posted something on my social media
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about asking for help because it's really difficult for many people to ask for
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help me as a business owner my i'm you know i'm always kind of doing things on my own and so i've had to recently ask
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for help and it it was uncomfortable to say the least and so i think there's a
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lot of people that are just super not comfortable with that and so really you know making a list to figure
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out what they need and i love that you had mentioned too how you know if the siblings are involved everybody leave
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their stuff at home and come with a goal of assisting your parents because a lot of you know old drama old
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fights things like that come up but at the end of the day you know you need to take care of that you're this the goal
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of this meeting is to take care of your parents and so it doesn't really matter what happened in the past it really
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matters how do we progress from here so i love that you talk about it as well because we also do as well
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um and as we both know as professionals and caregivers many caregivers are not taking care of themselves
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properly um and like you said you're learning things i'm learning things all the time often you know caregivers fill
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their time with everyone else how would you suggest caregivers take care of themselves in order to not only
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be practicing self-care and refilling their own cup but also to be a better caregiver for their aging loved
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ones yes um well in my book um people ask me
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you know well is it for the aging parent or is it for the caregiver and really i say you know you can't separate it you
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know it is it is something you do together you have to take care of yourself first
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as a caregiver or you will have nothing to give to others um and my proactive aging process which
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i i call it experience because i'm a big believer in experiences that you know
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from from birth on experiences teach us you know how to live and and what to do
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so um i i that's what i do as a therapist i build these exceptional
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experiences for my patients and um you know then i kind of back off
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and i monitor and i and i assist but i let them have the experience so they
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learn you know what to do so my book goes over seven um health
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strategies that are really non-negotiable so for you as a caregiver
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you know you need to you need to have the nutrition the hydration the sleep
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the meditation and mindfulness the exercise for your body and your brain
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and the breathing now these are essential for your health and what i say
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is you know you need it doesn't need to be almost like it doesn't need to be self-care it needs to be a part of your
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lifestyle when it becomes a part of your lifestyle you know you're doing everything you can
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for yourself as a caregiver and you don't go into the future with you know all this caregiver guilt it's like oh
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i'm not doing enough i'm not i'm i'm not enough i'm not i'm not helping them enough no you are you're you're taking
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care of yourself and you're you know trying to actually take these um you know health strategies
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and help your parents with them so that is one thing i teach in my book um
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and i really recommend that you start with the middle age like if you're in your 40s and your parents are in your 60s it's a great time to start
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you know i'm kind of almost looking at the baseline of you know how how am i functioning and how how's my parent
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functioning you know say you're both functioning great you're both active healthy um you know just continue what you're
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doing but if you're seeing some red flags and saying okay my parent is in
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the recliner all day long you know or my parent all they do is eat junk food you
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know this will this will come back to them as possibly a chronic illness in
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the future so you want to look at these things and um start making changes
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and you know that's what we just need to do to live healthy is make these changes in our lifestyle
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and we like i said we just not only do that for us but we also do it for our parents you know help them
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well i feel that you know if we said our like as caregivers now
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most of our care the caregivers that i work with are you know 40 to 60 let's call it um the adult children caregivers
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um and you know by setting ourselves up now making sure our mental health is you
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know as well as we can get our physical and all that stuff i feel like that sets us up to be better
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at being seniors as well whereas um a lot of the seniors that i'm talking to now
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didn't have you know we've progressed as a society so quickly right and we've had
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all these extra mental health things happening and all this stuff and they didn't have that at an age that we are
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so that they could integrate into their life and so some people that are seniors now are learning all that stuff
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but i feel like as caregivers this also sets us up for our senior years as well
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which i think is obviously super beneficial because you're not going backwards either
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i'm going to ask you a little bit more about your four-step method in your book but do you have any thoughts about
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there's a lot of people that come to us that have parents that are super stubborn i
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know that you've probably heard and maybe been in that position as well perhaps but super stubborn not eating
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well not taking care of themselves do we have any advice that we can offer them um
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you know caregivers or professionally have you come across this um yes um
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and actually it's kind of in my four-step method um yeah it kind of um encompasses some
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of this and what i help people do and i'll talk about that in a minute but
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basically if you can help your parents find their strengths and and their life vision
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you know we we all have to have something to get out of bed in the morning for you know we have to have a
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purpose if you have no purpose you you kind of stop living
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so i think it's just an intrinsic motivator to find that purpose now and i
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i say to you like if your parent has never meditated before and they they're just saying i'm not going to have any part of meditation i don't want to do it
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you know you can just set up a room for them they might be able to recline and you're laid down and um turn on some you
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know classical music or something that relaxes them and they'll probably naturally start the deep breathing you
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know you know it can be just a natural thing or take them out into nature nature is a
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tonic for health you know things like that you might have to find or you know
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another thing like mindfulness is a form of meditation and even maybe cooking a meal together
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and you know just really slowing it down paying attention to what you're doing
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and that mindfulness it actually builds your brain which is your your hippocampus and that's responsible for
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learning and memory so all of the like i said all of these things play into your health but um i
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find creative ways to add these to people's daily routines instead of just saying okay you need to
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sit in this chair and do your deep breathing for 15 minutes you know um you know there's there's other ways
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to do it so i think that's what i would i would do is you know if if you're getting the stubbornness
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um from you know for one thing find the life vision and we'll talk about that in just a minute and set some goals
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set some goals that are meaningful for your parents that they want to work on and that's kind of how i get around the
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stubbornness of people perfect and i also find too as an added part of that there's
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some of us that have other like stubbornness is one thing so it's you know sometimes it's just that
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the kid and the um parent can't have that conversation and that's why professionals operate in this world
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right so that's you know even in in past you know things in my life or whatever sometimes it's like okay somebody else
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is gonna have to take this conversation on because i could say the same things but it's not going to come across the same way and so to the extreme sometimes
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it's a matter of just bringing someone somebody else in to have that conversation on your behalf or with you
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or whatnot i find that happens to a lot of our caregivers because we help people find
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you know retirement living senior living and sometimes that conversation is not easy and it's way easier if we have it
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with the parents than the kids do for instance right so you get a lot further but that's
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true yeah sure yeah and yeah we've touched on your book a number of times so let's talk about the four step method
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to better help your parents could you give us um kind of like a high level overview of these concepts and i believe
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that you also offer training called expiry age can you tell us about that as well
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sure sure yeah and i'll just throw in one thing too with what we just talked about amy and it was it's you know maybe
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even late you know have print off an article or something that might have to do with nutrition or exercise and just
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lay it on the table you know and hopefully they'll pick it up and maybe start reading it or yeah like you know
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that that would just be an additional you know out or a source for them
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but yeah for for my training um the first step is um fine it's like it's
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like who who i who am i or who i am and um so you're going to help your
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parents find their strengths and i have a certain way i teach this um
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i teach um intelligences and how to find the strong intelligences
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and the weak intelligences but to kind of maybe even simplify that a little bit i
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have people you know sit down with them and talk about um you know maybe maybe even have your parents tell you some
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stories of their past and you can help them pick out their strengths
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um you know when we get busy in life they they've been probably raising a family they've had jobs you know they're
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in retirement they're slowing down they may not feel well and they forget about
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their you know what you know who they are and what their strengths are so we kind of you know um work on that and
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um you know from actually from the strengths you're going to find the weaknesses and just as an example
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sometimes i'll be working with somebody in in the clinic and i give them some directions for an
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exercise and i realize they have no idea where their body is in space
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and that's called the kinesthetic intelligence so when i pick up on that then i start adding exercises to help
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them you know and increase that awareness and and really within a few weeks
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they they have much better body awareness which is going to help with decreased falls and um you know maybe in
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a little bit of increased energy and things like that so um it's really important to help your
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parents find their strengths now if you only have five minutes a week i give you you know suggestions on how to take that
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five minutes and make them make the most out of them if you have a half an hour to sit down with them and chat that's
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great you know um and i think they will appreciate that and the attention so
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anyway yeah find the strengths uh step number two is helping them find that life vision
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and you could even you know help them bring up well you know dad you used to love you know the sports team or
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mom you know you you're a baker and you you love to cook for people and
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um you were involved in this um non-profit um how can we bring that back into your
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life how can we uh spark that you know spark that life vision again and that that purpose in
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life so we we find that life vision and then we start setting goals
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and um i give the example of maybe your parent wants to go to a family reunion and it's
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out of town you know so you know set that goal and say hey let's plan on
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you going to this reunion in september now what do we need to do to get there
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you know and so you know um just figuring out where you know you
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might have to go up some steps you're going to have to have um activity tolerance for a half of a day
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or you know you're going to have to tolerate a three-hour car ride you know and you know just starting to talk about
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these things and and and setting some goals you know what do we need to do to get there
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and that's where sometimes your professionals can come in and as a physical therapist you know i would be
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giving you a program that would help you you know help your parent to do the right exercises to to
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get there and it may be to something totally different um maybe you know you can get your parents
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involved with their friends again or groups of people um that you know
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that they can connect to and and actually kind of find and live that purpose again
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so that would be the second step um the third step is actually setting up those concrete activities like i talked about
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um you know you know a lot of times we keep so many things in our head you know this is what
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i need to do this is how i need to do it this this is um this is the right thing to do
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but until we act on that we really don't make any progress you know physically or mentally so
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that third step is actually putting everything into action and so you can kind of help your your
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parents set up this program and or maybe even go through their cupboards and take out all the junk food
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and give them some you know maybe some healthy recipes um you know teach your parents how to
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breathe well and and you know there's all kinds of youtube videos on deep breathing but it really really changes
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your life when you breathe well you know it really it really does it helps you sleep better
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there's just so many things that um these very simple and inexpensive health
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strategies you know work on and finally that fourth step is is assessing and
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reassessing because you know maybe by this time your parent you know the weakness i had is
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not there anymore and they're able to set different goals you know um or or the weakness is
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getting worse and you know you need to you need to address that through professionals or maybe
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there's nothing you can do you know and maybe it's just a time for acceptance of some of that
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so um you know it's constantly and that's what i love about my job as a therapist i get to i get to evaluate
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people all the time i'm always assessing i'm always reassessing i'm always setting new goals you know
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and that that's fun for me i i really like that so so that is that that's the program and
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it just keeps revolving and revolving as you know you gain things you lose things
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you you know change it up so yeah super valuable thank you for sharing i
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specifically really do like step four the reassessment because a lot of people put plans and processes in and then they
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just assume that everything is going to stay the same right and it's they don't re-evaluate to see what's
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happening and then it's like okay well did you check this oh well that wasn't a problem
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before and so the reassessment is so important right and just to stay on top because we're
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you know going towards you know we're planning we're being proactive we're going towards goals
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but you're right gold goal posts change you know you might be going towards one goal you might get there you might be
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going towards another one and then deem that you've changed your mind it's not you know appropriate or whatever and
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sometimes you don't know that stuff until you start doing things towards that direction so i think it's super important that you point that out point
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that out as well um i always like to theresa i always like to talk about misconceptions
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because i come across them so much my team comes across them with all of our clients there's you know misconceptions
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kind of about everything and artful aging is all about showing people their support giving people some direction and
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answers so what have you found to be some of the main misconceptions either
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from caregivers or their aging parents around planning and aging artfully
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um i think there are some steps that you know they just forget about
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and i know like i have you know friends in the industry that do things i'm
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totally different from me you know they take care of you know the finances the legal
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things you know and that um so you know just know that this is all
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important so maybe a misconception is well we can just wait on on this issue you know but really it is important that
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um if your parents don't have control of you know their future to kind of step
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in and help them a little bit with that um i i think the misconception is too like
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i don't need to help my parents and then um when someone when that
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crisis happens you know um it just really throws everybody off you
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know so maybe even having that family meeting um you know be before mom and dad get sick
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you know um and saying you know who you know who's got what resources do you have do you have financial resources do you have
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time do you have a talent are you are you a professional that can do you know what
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what can you do to help you know and maybe just even getting that you know set up a little bit earlier
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um but i think it's something we just don't really think about until we have to
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think about it and i i think that's another misconception it's it's no it's proactive aging
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really adds to the quality of life and really i know at the end and i was able to spend a couple years with my mom at the
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end of her life i'm helping my sisters take care of her and
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you know you just find out that you know when your parents pass away you just live on the memories
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you know and if you have those aging years to continue to make memories with your parents
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um it's a it's a real spiritual kind of thing like it gives you it feeds you as
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a person to know that you have that time with your parents and um
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you know although i know you know they're not every time it's going to be a wonderful time but you know you can
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try to make them as um you know the best treasured memories you can well that's it's super valuable to you
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know have those years sure yeah not everything is peachy keen but at the same time if you
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can prevent or be planning for stuff and you don't have the major dips like you
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know a giant roller coaster it makes everybody's life so much more peaceful i think and so that's always beneficial
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um i thought we could end today do we have any ways that people can be proactive i like i like to talk about
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one or two ways that things people can do i know we talked about a couple of them but can we sum up maybe a couple of ways
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or small small things that people can do to keep their journey going with their aging loved ones to be proactive what do
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you have for us teresa well yeah i would say um you know try to take
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some baselines of where like where you're at and where your parents are
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and um you know start adding these um you know simple steps every day changing up your
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lifestyle and and hopefully changing up your parents lifestyle and then you know just
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maybe maybe like every six months look at that and see how far you've come and you know give your give yourself a
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pat on the back you know for every win you have even if it's a small win you
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know celebrate it celebrate your wins and that'll keep you going
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um you know yeah try not to be you know too negative or hard on yourself during this period it can be rough and i do
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think even a misconception is oh my family and siblings we're so close and this is going to be so easy you know and
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that can be a big misconception because it's not and um have so have some time with your
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family that's fun you know get have a get together where you don't talk about mom and dad you
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know keep your relationships close and i think um then you know when all is
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said and done that you'll end up with a strong family unit and that's really what you do want
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in the end you don't want to be um bitter and you don't want to be resentful you know against them so
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um i would just and then that way be proactive too to try to keep your family
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uh you know strong and um and just be you know with that devotion
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towards your parents yeah sure and like you said i add some fun have some fun as a family it's not all about planning all
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the time it's not all about crisis and how to stay out of it and health care and all that stuff i think it's
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important said to another um another person who was on my show the other day to take the pictures right
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take the pictures enjoy yourself and then you also have these memories which is lovely so it's it's not all planning
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and crisis all the time so make sure that people enjoy their lives theresa thanks so much for coming on today i
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really appreciate it could you tell our viewers how they could get a hold of you yes um you can find my website at
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theresamer.com and you can get a hold of me there
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i do teach class courses um i have a course called
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boss now it's like escaping me boss caregiver um yeah it's escaping me
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right now i just out of my mind but i i teach my book and so in six weeks you'll
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learn my book if you if you want that um you know one-on-one feedback and and kind of have more hands-on
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and um so yeah i do that and it's really um is it kind of you know and i also
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want to say like my program is for peak performance so when if you if you want to think
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about it that way and you know everybody wants to be at their highest level you know it's something that you can do that
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it's it is really beneficial perfect well as we said teresa's book
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the art of assisting aging parents i grabbed mine on amazon i saw it on a couple different spots so definitely
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available get your copy if you're interested i think it's super valuable there's a lot of readers right and even
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i'm not much of a reader but this is the stuff i'm drawn to professionally as well right and so
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i really appreciate you coming on the show today and sharing all of your knowledge thanks so much
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thank you amy it's been a pleasure that's all for today folks if you found
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joining artful aging with amy from me to all of you i hope that you have a wonderful wednesday