Isolation and Caregiving: Approaching the “Cliff”
Caregiver Teleconnection sessions are one hour learning sessions that can be done via Zoom or over the phone for caregivers of older persons. Experts from around the country share information important to caregiving. Caregivers will have the opportunity to ask questions as well as hear from other caregivers.
Our sessions are geared for the family members taking care of a loved one over the age of 60. Professionals are also welcome to participate as well.
When caregivers gradually lose their connections, both social and self-caring, the precipice of clinical depression and burnout gets closer. Additionally, this often results in the care recipient becoming more isolated as the caregiver withdraws. Join us to discuss this growing public health dilemma—offering reasons and healthy responses, especially from those of you who have “been there”.
Date February 21, 2023
Hosted By WellMed Charitable Foundation
Evalyn Greb, LCSW
Evalyn Greb, LCSW, started two of California’s first Adult Day Health Care Centers( from 1973 to 1977). She organized and administered a hospital social work department, with a home health agency, an emergency room response program, and San Diego’s first in-patient hospice unit for three years. From 1980 to 2008, Ms. Greb worked for the County of San Diego and procured funding for and administered in-home, case management programs with 96 staff for elderly and disabled persons and their caregivers. Afterwards, she was the lead for the Long Term Care Integration Project (Medicare and Medicaid Integration). Since her retirement from the County, she has consulted with public programs, foundations, including the WellMed Charitable Foundation’s Caregiver Teleconnection for 12 years.