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 Meet Senior Experts, Catherine Callahan and Marisa Pasquini – Book Signing at Chaucer’s Book Store

 With an aging senior population, the need for better health care and support for caregivers is vital. Local authors Marisa Pasquini and Catherine Callahan will be signing their books and speaking about aging, health care and dementia care.

Catherine Callahan is the founder of I Care HealthCare, a consulting company that helps people get the best care through advocacy, preparation and partnership. She’s the author of  “YOU Can Do It: Tools to Better Manage Your Healthcare.” According to a 2019 study in Duke Health, more than 50% of women experience gender bias in receiving healthcare. Women are less likely to be taken seriously and treated expediently for conditions exhibited by their male counterparts. Those factors, and increasingly complex navigation systems for accessing healthcare, moved Catherine to write her book and to offer services to help women, and men, get the healthcare they’re entitled to.

Catherine, a speaker and trainer, has over 25 years of healthcare advocacy experience and is a member of the Alliance of Professional Health Advocates. Her book was positively reviewed by 17 doctors, nurses, psychologists and patients, and has been ranked #5 of 13 Books that “Inspire Modern Women To Speak Out” on ImproveHerHealth.com. Come to learn why you need a healthcare advocate, what an advocate does and the simple steps her book sets forth to get better healthcare.

Marisa Pasquini is the founder of the National Home Care Academy which provides training, support and referral for family and professional caregivers.  Her book, Surviving Dementia Without Losing Your Mind, is a result of over 12 years of dementia caregiving experience, as well as interviews of 50 caregivers. “Dementia caregiving is very intense,” said Ms. Pasquini.  “It’s much different than physical caregiving.  A person with dementia is in a New Reality and caregiving is most successful when the caregiver can enter the New Reality with their loved one.”  In the US, there are over 34 million family caregivers with numbers increasing every year. Dementia and Alzheimer’s affects 5 million people in the US currently (that number is low because many people are not diagnosed) and is expected to nearly triple by year 2060. Marisa trains caregivers with her methodology The New Reality Rules, outlined in her book.