How To Create A Nurturing Home Care
Experience - A Conversation With Mike George
Home care can be tricky for families to set up because oftentimes there are too many
feelings involved, a lack of caregiving experience, and other difficulties. In these cases,
it is always good to consult with people who have been through the same and know
first-hand how to overcome the challenges that may arise to ultimately create a
nurturing home care experience for our loved ones.
To provide you with accurate and valuable information on this topic, we've recently had
a conversation with Mike George, who along with his wife Jan founded Soaring
Families, a community that is focused exclusively on helping family caregivers navigate
the complex world of care. He was kind enough to share his caregiving story with us,
which involves his third son Ben.
Listen to the full interview on our podcast.
This is what he told us:
CARING SUPPORT: We want the Caring Support community to get to know you. Tell
us about yourself and your company.
MIKE GEORGE: I am the co-founder of this company that we started seven years ago
called Soaring Families, and we, my wife and I created it to help family caregivers deal
with the complexity of a health issue or disability. We have three adult children. One of
them is Ben, who will turn 30 this year, and was born with complex care needs from day
one.
And we've been in the family caregiver role, although I don't refer to myself as a family
caregiver, I'm his dad; nevertheless, we do all the things that a caregiver would do, and
we've been doing that for the last three decades. And one of the things we wanted to
help other families with, not just if you have an adult child or a young child, but if you
have an ageing parent, and really to help people figure out how do you make home care
work, how do you make that so that it's an amazing experience for everybody. And
that's really what we've done over the last few years is taking all the lessons and all the
things that Ben has tau