Navigating Caregiving & Grief Part 2: Caregiving in Real Time

No matter how much you plan, caregiving has a way of arriving on its own timeline. One day you’re managing logistics from a distance; the next, you’re making decisions in real time, often without a roadmap for what comes next. One in four adults in the US are responsible for providing or managing care for someone other than their children. Preparation and supportive resources can help you focus on the people you love, while protecting your own needs.

This event, the second in our two-part series, is designed to be a grounded, honest conversation about what caregiving actually looks like once it becomes your day-to-day reality. Whether you’re deep in caregiving now, anticipating it, or supporting someone who is, this discussion is intended to provide actionable guidance on making a challenging and emotionally-charged situation easier on all involved.

This session picks up where Part 1: Preparing for Care, Preparing for Grief left off, with our same panel of experts: an aging life care expert, a thanatologist, and a Brighton Jones advisor who has lived through it herself.

What we’ll explore together:

• The situations no one prepares you for: Common, often unexpected scenarios families face in caregiving, from a sudden health crisis to a slow, ongoing decline, and the decisions that come with each.
• The grief you don’t expect to be grief: Why caregiving often carries its own quiet, unrecognized losses long before anyone dies, and how naming them can lighten the load.
• Protecting yourself while caring for someone else: Practical, honest ways caregivers can hold onto their own well-being, rather than losing themselves in the role.

This series is sponsored Brighton Jones Women’s Wealth, but the insights shared will be relevant to anyone who is or may be navigating the challenges of caregiving.