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Elaine K. Sanchez entertains, inspires, and educates audiences with keynote presentations and workshops that help people get prepared to care for family elders and cope with the stress of long-term caregiving.
Program Descriptions
Keynote:
“And for this I take Vitamins!”
A delightfully irreverent and totally honest look at the challenges and rewards of caregiving. Based on the book, Letters from Madelyn, Chronicles of a Caregiver, audiences are entertained and inspired with tender, gritty, and uproariously funny stories while learning practical strategies for coping with the physical and emotional stress of caregiving.
Workshop:
Boomer Boot Camp
Boomer Boot Camp is a workshop designed to guide people through the process of taking over the care of aging, disabled, or chronically ill family elders. The accompanying workbook is packed full of practical strategies, easy to use forms and documents, helpful hints, and great websites. It covers topics ranging from how to start the conversation with aging parents to completing end-of-life documents.
Workshop:
Survival Training for Caregivers
Participants in this workshop learn to recognize and cope with anger, guilt, depression and grief - The “Four Horsemen of Caregiving”. Attendees come away with a personalized survival plan that includes practical strategies for maintaining their own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health while caring for loved ones who can no longer care for themselves.
Length:
Keynote - 30 to 90 minutes
Workshops - two hours, half-day, full-day
Testimonials
Comments from attendees
McGinty Alzheimer's Conference
Portland, Oregon
- Excellent - reality and humor - great!
- Very informative and very funny - great resource for caregiving
- Great - humorous, intriguing, and touching!
- Heart warming memories - a real person's journey done with insight, humor and zip!
- Wonderful, compassionate, engaging and down to earth!
- Very relatable, fun - great job, wonderful stories
- Funny, touching and authentic!
- Interesting, informative and fun
- Fantastic - inspirational
"Elaine offers an insightful and compassionate view of what it's like to live with dementia, both from the perspective of the person with the diagnosis and from his/her caregiver. She preserves the dignity of adulthood while discussing significant symptoms and impairments of a progressive dementing illness, and creates and nurtures hope by introducing the listener to a framework with which to consider the profound thinking and life changes required when one is faced with such diagnoses.”
Lynda Crandall, RN, GNP
Gerontological Nurse Practitioner
Past president, Alzheimer's Network of Oregon
Comments from attendees
Caregiving Across the Ages
Kansas Area Agencies on Aging Association
Kansas City, Kansas
- Great job!
- Great!! I loved your message.
- Great speaker
- Very inspiring
- Thank you for sharing about your amazing parents!
- If only we could all learn to laugh together at life.
- Very good information! Thanks for taking us along on Madelyn's journey!
- Thank you for sharing such personal experiences. It was great!
- Loved the presentation!
- Truly inspiring!
"Elaine's presentation was heartwarming, funny and thought provoking all at the same time.”
Leilani Slama
Marketing Director,
Capital Manor
Salem, OR
"Elaine has taken what could be for some a very
sensitive subject and made it easy to embrace and
understand. The information that she presents in
Boomer Boot Camp is relevant for the times in which
we are living.”
"Anyone currently caring for a loved one really needs
this information. In fact, my recommendation to
anyone anticipating responsibility for a loved one
really ought to seek out this information as soon as
possible.”
Tim J. Nein, CLTC
President
Tim Nein & Associates, Inc.
Vancouver, WA
"When I first met Elaine and heard of her program, I
was excited about how my clients might benefit from
the Boomer Boot Camp experience. Her information
and presentation was appreciated by all in attendance
and I've witnessed direct results in my client's lives. I
hope more of them will attend future "boot camps".”
Michael Wooters
Financial Planner
Salem, OR
"Elaine’s workshop on caregiving was one of the most helpful and informative workshops we have ever offered. The day was well balanced with information, discussion, and humor, and there was often reassurance through stories Elaine told from her book, Letters from Madelyn, Chronicles of a Caregiver. Elaine knows what she is talking about, but it is her style that really opened up the students to the topic. She is not only warm and engaging, she has a wonderful sense of humor and perspective. ”
Alan Koch,
Coordinator, Lifelong Learning Institute
Chemeketa Commnity College
Salem, OR
"Your message enhanced the values we share about the importance of human life and confirmed the importance of our personal attitudes in helping others. You are a gifted writer and speaker who shows purposefulness in your work and life. We will look for other ways to bring your message to those involved in furthering the mission of Silverton Hospital.”
Donald J. Russo
Director of Development
Silverton Hospital
Silverton, OR
“Dear Elaine, You were so wonderful to work with and so kind and understanding. You showed such compassion and kindness not only to me but to everyone you came into contact with over the two days that you were here. I was truly impressed and inspired. The people who attended your presentation had high praises for you. They each felt touched and inspired by the ideas you had in helping them learn to cope with their role as caregivers, and they all related to you in ways of their own.
Elaine, you are a natural speaker for caregivers and if I can ever help you by vouching for your abilities, please just let me know.”
Dani Kebschull
Program Coordinator
National Family Caregiver Support Program
Soldotna, Alaska
Elaine’s workshop “Surviving and Growing Through Caregiving” covered many key points that are facing millions of Americans today including assistance of aging spouses, parents and other dependents. Her facilitation of the discussion was very valuable for all in attendance. She is a poised and compassionate professional, with a powerful and timely message. On behalf of Coconino Community College, we recommend her heartily for other talks and classes.
Susan Shaw-Minger
Community Enrichment Specialist
Coconino Community College
Flagstaff, Arizona
Elaine Sanchez brings experience and a wonderful perspective to the difficult task of caregiving. Her Caregiver's Survival Guide is packed with tools for lifting-up the caregiver, helping them find dignity, a new perspective, and even humor as they go about their daily tasks. We look forward to her return to Sedona and the presentation of another workshop.
Harriette Burkhalter
Director of Pastoral Care Ministries,
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Sedona, Arizona
I recently attended your workshop on eldercare. I was impressed by your ability to hold the audience's attention by speaking from the heart about your mother’s experiences. Along with your authentic knowledge concerning human nature, your also gave extremely practical tips on how caregivers can take care of themselves. You reinforced for me the knowledge that if I cannot nurture myself, I will not be able to practice attentive loving-kindness towards those who are sick and may be dying.
Karin-Heidi Sommer
Sedona, AZ
“It was such a pleasure to 'meet' Madelyn through her letters! Her amazing journey of caregiving is sure to inspire anyone who's ever loved someone through a tough time. Madelyn's words are welcome back to our care community anytime!”
Amy Hoffman
Referral Manger
Meadow Park Health and Specialty Care Center
St. Helens, OR
“What an incredible story you weave. I also realized how important our disability planning truly can be for our clients and their loved ones, and how important it is to address it.”
Eden Rose Brown
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Salem, OR
“Thanks so much for presenting to our group. It was so wonderful, touching,and personal. I’ve heard nothing but positive remarks and praise for your program.”
Eloise Hanable
Marion Estates Auxiliary
Sublimity, OR
To schedule a speaking engagement or book signing, please contact:
Elaine Sanchez
Lainey Publishing
2725 Prominent Court South
Salem, OR 97302
503-588-3190
Elaine@laineypub.com
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Elaine K. Sanchez
Member National Speakers Association
Author, Speaker
Keynote presentations & workshops based on real-life experiences, hard-learned lessons, & exhaustive research
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