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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!
