Caring for Aging Parents Part 2
Kathy Chapell &
Elizabeth Turnage
Kathy Chapell and Elizabeth Turnage join Sharon Betters to talk about how to care for aging parents. We’re going to talk about the challenges of caring for elderly parents. Kathy and Elizabeth share lessons learned as frailty and illness required their parents to make major changes in their living arrangements. They admit they wish they had done some things differently and their transparency will help listeners reflect on their own relationships to their elderly parents. They encourage us to see life through the eyes and hearts of our parents as they lose control over much of their lives. Kathy and Elizabeth talk about how to respectfully connect with an aging parent as their worlds grow smaller and they sometimes display what seems like eccentric behavior. You might be moved to tears by a few of their descriptions of how an aging parent might be feeling as they experience one loss after another. But for sure, you will be challenged to look at your own heart and identify areas that might need to be addressed through the grid of the love of Jesus.
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Kathleen Gabriel Chapell is the wife of Dr. Bryan Chapell, mother of four married children, and grandmother to 6 (currently). She has taught preschool music, high school music, private music lessons, and directed church choirs. She has been a pastor’s wife, seminary president’s wife, and is now the wife of the administrative head of the Presbyterian Church in America. She is an accomplished musician, a seminar speaker, and an avid mystery reader. Kathy and her husband Bryan co-authored Each for the Other and Anyway and Always, a children’s book. Kathy’s most recent book is The Great Iowa Road Trip, Journey to Memories Connect with Kathy at https://www.kathychapell.com
Elizabeth Reynolds Turnage, gospel life and legacy coach, author, and speaker, helps people live, prepare, and share their legacy to bring hope to future generations. She writes the column Numbering Your Days to share gospel encouragement for aging, caregiving, legacy, and end-of-life. She is the author of two devotionals, From Recovery to Restoration: 60 Meditations for Finding Peace & Hope in Crisis and The Waiting Room: 60 Meditations for Finding Peace & Hope in a Health Crisis. Elizabeth and her husband, Kip Turnage, enjoy feasting and sharing good stories with their large family of four adult children, three children-in-law, and three young grandchildren. Connect with Elizabeth at www.ElizabethTurnage.com.
