Ep. 6 - Caregiving from Afar

Many women today find themselves caretaking two different generations of people: their own children, and their aging parents. This is on top of their jobs, businesses, clients, and whatever other responsibilities they may have. And it’s made even more difficult when you live far away from your parents. 

In today’s episode, Alisa and Ayesha discuss caretaking parents as an adult who lives far away from their parents. What can you do remotely? What systems are in place to take care of things if you have to drop everything and leave? How do you decide which is the right thing to do? Listen to this episode’s discussion to hear more about this issue. 

Topics Discussed in This Episode

• [00:00:41] Taking care of parents who don’t live nearby
• [00:01:08] How Ayesha is doing with her parents’ caretaking 
• [00:02:34] How to create and build safety mechanisms in case you need to go away 
• [00:04:44] Why women feel it’s on them to be the caretakers
• [00:05:35] What you can do for someone from a distance
• [00:08:14] The value of showing up
  [00:08:44] How kids can become a comfort to their parents
• [00:10:53] How to decide whether we need to be there in person and how to weed out the guilt feelings
• [00:11:40] The difficulty of being an only child who lives far from parents

Resources

Smart Boss Media

Hamilton Law Firm

First Steps Financial