Insight for those navigating the caregiving tsunami.
These articles expand on the themes found in Lynn Alexander’s keynote presentations and book, Caregiver Tsunami. Each post offers practical insight, thoughtful perspective, and an honest look at the human side of caregiving and aging. Whether you are a caregiver, professional, or leader, these reflections are designed to inform, encourage, and spark meaningful conversation.
Emotional Intelligence in Caregiving
I built my CARE Compass framework – Competence, Advocacy, Responsiveness, and Engagement – to guide caregivers through exactly that. But staying on that path takes more than a framework. It takes a way to reset in the moment.
Where did the title “Caregiver Tsunami” actually come from?
I wrote “Caregiver Tsunami” because I’ve lived this wave from both sides – as the state official once shaping aging policy, and as the daughter standing in the hospital hallway making impossible decisions.
The Keynote Speaker Who Has Lived the Caregiving Crisis
If you are planning a conference, annual meeting, or leadership event and looking for a keynote speaker on caregiving and aging policy, let’s have that conversation. Not many speakers have shaped state-level aging policy and also navigated the caregiving crisis from inside their own family. I have done both.
You Didn’t Apply for This Caregiving Job
Understanding the different roles family caregivers play can help you find your place in the process. The Caregiver Continuum includes Primary, Secondary, and long-term caregivers. You were never meant to do this alone.
Advocacy in Caregiving
True advocacy is an individual choice to be a Champion for Compassionate Care in the moments when the caregiving system feels transactional – and it doesn’t require a title or a podium. To the caregivers in the trenches today: you are the most important advocates we have.
On the Air: Lynn Joins Michigan Voices on WJR
I had the pleasure of joining Marie Osborne on WJR’s Michigan Voices. We talked about why the Caregiver Tsunami is a public health crisis, what families can do to prepare before things fall apart, and why humor belongs in the middle of all of it.