Episode #49: A Conversation About: Caregiving Part 3 Financial Caregiving Continued
In this episode, the X-Podcast team continues their series on caregiving. They explain financial caregiving and provide examples, tips, and information about it. Xiomara talks about her personal experience in financial caregiving and gives her lived-experience advice on how to manage it. They discuss financial planning while caregiving for a loved one, because it can come with extra expenses. Xiomara gives tips on smart planning and how you can manage your finances while providing great care. She also discusses legal prerequisites for becoming a financial caregiver. The team also discusses the importance of family caregiving. They explain what the role of family caregivers is in the healthcare system and how to manage it. Xiomara also gets into the pros and cons and the limitations and challenges she faces as a family caregiver and provides some insight and tips about it.
Episode #48: A Conversation About: Caregiving Part 2: Financial Caregiving
In this episode, the X-Podcast team reacts to and discusses financial caregiving for loved ones. Xiomarea talks about her personal experience with financial caregiving as she cared for her parents for over 20 years. She gives tips on managing this very important part of being a primary caregiver. Xiomara explains the difference between a caregiver and a caretaker when caring for someone unwell or aging. She defines what the term financial caregiving means and provides personal experience with it from her caregiving journey. She discusses some of the preparations that caregivers can take to help with the financial burdens of caregiving. Xiomara also touches on the cultural competency that is involved with caregiving within the Latino community and how that differs from the American non-Latino communities.