FREE Care Giver Advice to help your elderly or disabled family and/or friends
Details
Caregiving Advice Seminar
from a Caring Family Member/Friend Charles Carroll
FREE 3/29 Sunday 11pm - noon + 30 minutes Q&A
Wormans Mill Clubhouse
2470 Stoney Creek road
Frederick MD 21701
Call or Text 240-643-2996 with any questions/to RSVP
Zoom for those who cannot attend in person!
Time: EST Mar 29, 2026 11:00 AM
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6546393919?omn=88498884145
Meeting ID: 654 639 3919
Qualifier: I have no formal training in care giving, patient advocacy or any nursing. It is just a summary of some of my experiences care giving for my Mom on a tight budget for over 15 years who had many medical conditions and daily challenges. I also helped a best friend a few years younger than me dealing with amputation of a leg and a spinal injury that put them in a wheelchair.
I am not selling anything but will recommend things that helped me and how I researched helping her. And some of my money saving tactics and how I juggled it with a full time job.
There will be lots of demos of low tech and high tech helping aids that can be game changers.
I think it will help anyone struggling to help a loved one suffering from physical disabilities and major medical issues. And give them good ideas to help a LOT.
Topics covered include:
- daily challenges and solutions both low
- Low tech and high tech products that helped my Mom and my friend.
- doctors, nurses and patient advocacy
- food and diet challenges
- entertainment options for distraction
- wrangling even a very dysfunctional family to help
- very “out of the box” solutions
- Medicine challenges
- Exhaustion and enlisting helpers
- county, state, non profit resources
- Patient advocacy
- hospital visits and rehab visits making it easier
It will be an emotional talk - I went from taking care of a woman they gave 6 months to live and beating the odds to over 15 years of caregiving.
She suffered from heart issues: attacks and 3 surgical stints, Parkinson’s and a cluster of related conditions. 19 meds a day that when taken as doctors recommended did keep her going.