I'm delighted to welcome back to the podcast Dr. Barry Jacobs, and equally excited to welcome his co author and wife, Dr. Julia Mayer. Dr. Barry Jacobs is a clinical psychologist, family therapist, author and principal at Health Management Associates, a national healthcare consulting firm. He's the author of the emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers, and has been a trusted voice for caregivers through his long running aarp.org advice column. Dr. Julia Mayer is a clinical psychologist with over...
Jul 10, 2025•52 min•Ep. 71
Dementia family caregivers face an overwhelming journey—without adequate support or resources. Supporting someone with dementia is a complex, emotional, exhausting journey. Yet, dementia family caregivers face this challenge without the coordinated support, training, or resources needed to provide the best care possible. But that’s beginning to change. On July 1st Medicare is launching a new, first-of-its-kind program called GUIDE —Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience—created to provide compr...
Jun 12, 2025•44 min•Ep. 70
If you or someone you love has ever faced a health scare, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss. My guest today is Dr. Edward G. Rogoff, an accomplished educator and advocate whose personal journey is nothing short of extraordinary. Diagnosed with hemophilia as a child, Dr. Rogoff faced a lifetime of uncertainty—until a liver transplant in adulthood led to an unexpected cure. His experience sparked a lifelong commitment to patient advocacy, organ donation awareness, and reshaping how we ...
May 08, 2025•47 min•Ep. 69
Today, my guest is Amy Fuchs, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Aging Life Care Professional with over 15 years of experience supporting families through the complexities of caregiving for aging loved ones. As the founder of The Elder Expert, Amy combines her compassion, empathy, and expertise to provide personalized care and guidance for older adults and their families. In today’s episode, we’ll discuss a challenging and all too familiar struggle: denial in caregiving. Whether it’s denial f...
Apr 10, 2025•42 min•Ep. 68
My guest today is Dr Mary Frances O’Connor, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Arizona, Director of Clinical Training and a grief researcher. Dr O’Connor shared such great insights the first time she was on the podcast, I’m so glad she’s back to discuss her new book The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing. Today we discuss the physical nature of grief, the physiological response of your body and how grief affects every system,...
Mar 13, 2025•56 min•Ep. 67
In these BONUS episodes of Daughterhood the Podcast, Daughterhood Founder Anne Tumlinson joins Rosanne to bring the caregiving conversation to a different level as we’re joined by change leaders and policy experts. Today we speak with Howard Gleckman, senior fellow at the Urban Institute, where he is affiliated with the Tax Policy Center and the Retirement Policy Program. He speaks and writes frequently on aging and caregiving, as well as on tax policy. Howard is the author of Caring for Our Par...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Jerri McElroy is a full time in home dementia family caregiver and a Caring Across Generations Fellow. She is passionate about care advocacy and created first care for me to encourage family caregivers to prioritize self preservation for their own health and well being. Jerry is a published author, artist, minister, and also a Daughterhood circle leader. Aisha Adkins is an Atlanta based family caregiver, founder, writer, thought leader, speaker and organizer, who is passionate about building an ...
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 66
Boundaries. We know they are important in everyday life and even more crucial in caregiving. But how do we establish them? My guest today is Loren Gelberg-Goff, psychotherapist, author and speaker, who has become best known for creating the powerful, life-changing program for caregivers: “ Take Back Your Life ”. Loren and I explore the crucial topic of boundaries in caregiving. In this conversation we discuss how to create and maintain boundaries, how to feel good about yourself while practicing...
Jan 09, 2025•52 min•Ep. 65
David Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on grief and loss. and his insights are invaluable. He is the author of six books, including his latest bestseller, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief . David also coauthored On Grief and Grieving with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross which updated her five stages of grief to include the grieving process. David’s journey into grief and trauma work began after witnessing a mass shooting as a child while his mother was dying. He has since taught pro...
Dec 12, 2024•42 min•Ep. 64
In 2016, Kitty Norton left her job as an NBC assistant editor in Los Angeles, CA for her hometown of Portland, OR to care for her mother living with dementia. While caring, she authored the dementia caregiver blog Stumped Town Dementia , writing tales of dementia life, not dementia death, which resonated deeply with readers around the world. After her mother’s death in 2021, Kitty took to the road in an RV to produce and direct her cross-country documentary film Wine, Women, and Dementia This fi...
Nov 14, 2024•56 min•Ep. 63
Cheryl Phillips, M.D., AGSF, is the immediate past president and CEO of the Special Needs Plan Alliance, and currently a Senior Program Consultant with the John A Hartford Foundation. She has extensive experience in health policy, Medicare Advantage and the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). As a fellowship-trained geriatrician, her clinical practice focused on the continuum. She served as a primary care health policy fellow under Secretary Tommy Thompson and currently chairs ...
Oct 10, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 62
Mental health is crucial for overall well-being at every stage of life. It encompasses our emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing our thoughts, feelings, actions, stress management, relationships, and decision-making. Supporting your mental health is especially important during caregiving. In this episode, we discuss the difference between depression and malaise, how to spot depression in our cells and our care partners, and practical strategies and resources to support our...
Sep 12, 2024•42 min•Ep. 61
When Alzheimer’s dementia arrived without warning, Dr. Sheri L. Yarbrough (Praxis Senior Care-Giving Solutions)used her ability to view a circumstance from multiple perspectives to understand what her mother was experiencing. That became the genesis for her care management strategy, the Praxis for Care. Living the Praxis for Care helped create her motto: care-giving is what you do for your loved one; giving-care is what you do for both of you. In this episode, Dr. Yarbrough and I discuss a range...
Aug 08, 2024•46 min•Ep. 60
Today my guest is Nancy Gentle Boudrie. For 35 years, Nancy helped Business Owners and Corporations achieve peak perform and create exponential success until she found her true passion and purpose working with people to manage high levels of stress and navigate unprecedented challenges. She blends her business knowledge with her training from Jon Kabat Zinn’s Mindful Based Stress Reduction and Naropa University’s Mindful Leadership Training. In this episode, Nancy and I discuss what mindfulness ...
Jul 11, 2024•45 min•Ep. 59
Traveling with your care partner can be stressful. Carol Giuliani of Senior Travel Companion Services is here to provide strategies and some little-known tips for caregivers. She has planned and executed over 125 domestic and international trips through all 50 states and across the globe. In this episode, Carol and I discuss tips for traveling with your care partner, everything from how to plan your trip, which airlines and resources can assist best how to handle long car rides, traveling with m...
Jun 13, 2024•43 min•Ep. 58
More than half of Americans take four or more medications a day. That number increases to at least seven when we add over-the-counter medications. All of these have side effects and interactions. Today my guest is DeLon Canterbury, Founder of Geriatrix.org who hopes to revolutionize the way we look at medications by educating the public on deprescribing. In this episode, we discuss the importance of knowing the medications your care partners are taking, what he considers dangerous drugs, the mos...
May 09, 2024•45 min•Ep. 57
Dementia. While we know it’s a progressive, neurodevelopmental condition with over 200 types, there are still many questions of why and how it occurs. My guest, Mitchell Clionsky, PhD is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist with 45 years of experience evaluating and treating patients with cognitive impairment, dementia, ADHD, and traumatic brain injury. Dr Clionsky, along with his wife and partner Dr Emily Clionsky have treated more than 25,000 patients with cognitive impairment. They ha...
Apr 11, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 56
Dr Allison Applebaum is an Associate Attending Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), and also the Founding Director of their Caregivers Clinic the first of its kind in any Comprehensive Cancer Center in the US. Dr Applebaum amplifies the voices of family caregivers in her scientific journals, editorials and her research which focuses on developing innovative ways to identify, prepare and support caregivers. Through t...
Mar 14, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 55
Today my guest is Barbara Karnes, an Award Winning Nurse and End of Life Educator. She was NHPCO (The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization) Hospice Innovator Award Winner of 2018 & the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. Barbara has put her 40 years of experience regarding education, care, and support of dying people and their loved ones into numerous books and resources. One book in particular Gone From My Sight : The Dying Experience , published in 1985, has sol...
Feb 08, 2024•58 min•Ep. 54
No matter the reason you enter a hospital, it's intimidating, and the process is not self-explanatory. Each step from admission to discharge to rehab to home is fraught with managing communication and decisions. My guest Dianne Savastano can help. Diane is founder and principal of Health Assist a Massachusetts based company founded in 2004 that specializes in helping clients navigate the complexities of the healthcare system. Beginning as a registered nurse providing direct patient care, Dianne'...
Jan 11, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 53
In today's Bonus policy episode, Howard Gleckman joins Anne in discussing policy changes in 2023. Howard is a published author and writer whose professional expertise is founded on long-term care, health care, elder care, tax policy, budget policy and economics. Howard was also a senior correspondent in the Washington bureau of Business Week. In our episode today, we discuss some of the major policy happenings in 2023 - the GUIDE program, CMS staffing standards, the decision to cover Leqembi and...
Dec 28, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Connie Baher is a writer and speaker on caregiving and re-imagining retirement. Her latest book is Family Caregivers: An Emotional Survival Guide. Published in USA Today, The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, and The Boston Globe, she is also the author of "The Case of the Kickass Retirement." She is a Harvard MBA, an entrepreneur, and a former tech executive. Connie is A frequent contributor to Next Avenue and I had the pleasure of being a part of her article When the Caregiving Ends: Recovering...
Dec 07, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 52
The challenge of caring through a broken healthcare system is something every caregiver lives through. My guests today, Daughterhood Founder Anne Tumlinson and Daughterhood Interim CEO Andrea Cohen know those challenges personally and professionally. Today we discuss their personal experiences as caregivers, what drives them to create change, the importance of being able to find practical resources and support - and how Daughterhood can help.
Nov 09, 2023•52 min•Ep. 51
Courtney Hogenson is a registered nurse, entrepreneur, and innovator with over a decade of experience in the healthcare industry. As a certified care manager and a legal nurse consultant, Courtney has extensive expertise in elder care and patient advocacy and has served as a primary liaison and medical advisor for patients and families. Courtney is the founder and chief caregiver of Call-Light , an on-demand healthcare platform that connects care seekers with trusted nurses and clinicians for in...
Oct 12, 2023•50 min•Ep. 50
David C. Grabowski, PhD, is a professor of health care policy in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School . His research examines the economics of aging with a particular interest in the areas of long-term care and post-acute care. From 2017-2023 Dr. Grabowski was a member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), which is an independent agency established to advise the U.S. Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program. He joins Daughterhood Founder Anne Tu...
Sep 28, 2023•47 min
Dr. Kalisha Bonds Johnson is an Assistant Professor on the Tenure track at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her BSN, MSN and PhD in nursing and specializes as a Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. In 2019, she earned her Ph.D. from Oregon health and science university where her studies focused on how the caregiving experiences of African American dementia pairs (i.e. , African American persons living with dementia and the...
Sep 14, 2023•42 min•Ep. 49
As a senior living expert, Star Bradbury has helped thousands of families make educated and informed decisions as they navigate the world of senior living and senior healthcare. Based on her 25 years of real-world experience, Star’s book, Successfully Navigating Your Parents’ Senior Years , offers a comprehensive guide that walks families through developing a flexible proactive plan that focuses on keeping loved ones independent for as long as possible no matter their age. In our conversation St...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 48
Sue Ryan has been in roles of family caregiving for more than 40 years. Her mission is to empower individuals to maximize and accept the potential opportunities that change will bring. As Sue shares, We’re continuously in transitions – the process of going from where we are to what’s next in our lives. Whether we’re choosing the change – or the change is happening to us – intentionally navigating transitions in each area of our life means changing from ending up somewhere we may not want to be t...
Jul 13, 2023•57 min•Ep. 47
Today Anne and Rosanne are joined by Karen Kavanaugh senior director, Strategic Initiatives at the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers. She leads the development and launch of the institute’s initiatives designed to expand supports to strengthen caregiver health, resilience, and wellbeing. Her portfolio includes Working While Caring , and initiatives designed to deepen the research on effective workplace supports for caregivers and to expand access to those supports. She is also leading RCI...
Jun 29, 2023•52 min
Marty Stevens-Heebner is the Founder & CEO of Clear Home Solutions and an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and podcast host. She is also the President of NASMM (the National Association of Senior & Specialty Move Managers), with certifications in Senior and Specialty Move Management, Professional Organizing, and Aging in Place. Clear Home Solutions was the first nationally accredited firm in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. She was also the first Certified Senior Move Manager in the ...
Jun 08, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 46
