Mom’s Aging, What’s Next?
A Practical Lunch-and-Learn Series for Employees Navigating Aging Parents
An aging parent does not stop needing help when the workday begins.
Employees may be coordinating appointments between meetings, answering repeated calls from a parent, trying to figure out whether Mom needs more help, managing responsibilities with siblings, or attempting to handle everything from another city.
Many do not think of themselves as caregivers.
They simply know that their parents are aging and more is beginning to fall on them.
Mom’s Aging, What’s Next? is a practical employee education series designed to help them better understand what is happening, organize what needs attention, and identify reasonable next steps.
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Practical Information Employees Can Actually Use
These are not presentations about becoming a better caregiver.
They are conversations about the real situations employees encounter when a parent begins to need more help.
Each session provides practical education, questions to consider, useful tools and resources employees can take with them
The Four-Part Series
Why Am I Doing Everything?
When family responsibilities keep falling on one person
Why does one sibling so often become the default? This session looks at the visible and invisible responsibilities that come with an aging parent, why family roles become uneven, and practical ways to divide responsibilities, set limits and bring in additional support.
Is It Time for More Help?
Recognizing changes and deciding what may need to happen next
A parent seems different, but is it normal aging or something that needs attention? Employees learn what changes to notice, how everyday functioning can reveal increasing needs, what types of support are available, and how to choose a reasonable next step.
How Do I Help From Here?
Supporting an aging parent from another city or state
Distance changes how families help. This session looks at what can realistically be managed from afar, what requires someone local, how to build a dependable support system, and where technology may make communication and coordination easier
When Your Parents Become Part of Your Workday
Managing the calls, appointments, decisions and interruptions that follow you to work
When concerns about a parent start competing with the workday, employees need more than another to-do list. This session helps identify what is creating the repeated interruptions, what truly needs their involvement, what can be handled differently, and where systems, outside support or technology may help.
Flexible for Your Organization
Choose a single topic that is especially relevant to your employees or offer the complete four-part Mom’s Aging, What’s Next? series.
Programs can be adapted for employee groups, professional organizations, leadership teams and other workplace audiences.
Each presentation is designed to be practical, approachable and easy to understand, with time for questions and real-world discussion.
More Than a Presentation
The education does not have to end when the session does.
Age Tech Now offers practical guidebooks that correspond with each presentation, giving employees worksheets, checklists and tools they can use with their own families.
Organizations may also choose to offer employees access to personalized Next Steps Plans for situations where they need help figuring out what to do next.
The free Caregiver Story Workbook can also be provided as an introductory resource.
About Laurie Miller
Laurie Miller is the founder of Age Tech Now and co-owner of Apple Care & Companion, a family-owned Dallas home care agency serving older adults and their families since 2006.
With a master’s degree in Aging Studies and nearly two decades of experience helping families navigate the practical realities of aging, Laurie brings both professional expertise and personal experience to conversations about aging parents.
Her approach is practical, conversational and focused on helping families become prepared, not panicked.
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Interested in a single lunch-and-learn or the full four-part series?
Tell me a little about your organization and what you are looking for. We can talk about the audience, topics and format that would be the best fit.