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1. Ep. 495 Care Boss: Strategies for Family Caregivers with Jennifer A. O’Brien kwyattmd 49:17

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:

jenniferaobrien.com

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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

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Sign up for Patreon to get access to Q&A Session on April 25th!
• Previous interview with Jennifer
• Intensity Assessment Tool for caregivers at Archangels.me
• “Precious Time” Implementation Guide for healthcare workers
• NEW Gift Guides for Caregivers, People Receiving Care, and People Who are Grieving
• Get my two newest books!! Stories from the Dark Night and The Tao of Death
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Dr. Karen Wyatt is the bestselling author of the book 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying, which contains stories of patients she cared for as a hospice doctor and the spiritual lessons she learned from them at the end of their lives. Her other books include The Journey from Ego to Soul, Stories from the Dark Night, and The Tao of Death. Dr. Wyatt also hosts End-of-Life University Podcast, which features conversations with experts who work in all aspects of end-of-life care. She is widely regarded as a thought-leader in the effort to transform the way we care for our dying in the U.S. In addition, she is valued for her application of spiritual principles to illness and healthcare and teaches that in order to live life fully we must each overcome our fear of death and embrace the difficulties that life brings us.