Conversations on Caregiving – Flooding the airways with kindness

Podcast 3 – Flooding the airways with kindness.    

In this third podcast in the ARCH Series, Conversations on Caregiving, educator Sharon Leary talks about a multidisciplinary, undergraduate university-based respite program serving caregiving families of adults with Alzheimer’s and other memory related conditions. Sharon illuminates the many ways students benefit and grow personally and professionally from providing respite care. By including and respecting the individual gifts every caregiver, care recipient, and student brings to the respite experience, Sharon shows how volunteer respite can result in life affirming and life changing experiences for all.

Resources

ARCH Innovative and Exemplary Respite: Home Away from Home Respite Center

Speaker:

Sharon Leary, Former Director, Home Away from Home Respite Care