End-of-Life University Ep. 495 Care Boss: Strategies for Family Caregivers with Jennifer A. O’Brien
Learn how leadership skills and organizational tools can help decrease stress for family caregivers.
My guest Jennifer O’Brien has been a practice management consultant to physicians for 35 years and is the author of the book The Hospice Doctor’s Widow, which was the subject of our previous interview. After providing care for her husband, a hospice and palliative care physician, at the end of his life she has focused on helping people start conversations about caregiving and end of life. She shares insights and tips from her latest book Care Boss: Leadership Strategies and Resources for Family Caregivers, which was inspired by her realization that there are profound similarities between leadership and family caregivers. Learn more at her website:
This episode includes:
- Similarities and differences between the roles of family caregiver and CEO
- How leadership strategies can benefit an overwhelmed family caregiver
- The value of having a mission and vision statement for our end of life
- How to assemble a “team” as a caregiver by identifying the helpers
- Tips for delegating tasks to others
- The best time to read this book and how to use it
- Rethinking the idea of self-care as self-management and self-awareness
- Using the Intensity Assessment Tool to understand the degree of stress you are experiencing
- The idea of “Precious Time” and why it’s important
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- Intensity Assessment Tool for caregivers at Archangels.me
- “Precious Time” Implementation Guide for healthcare workers
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