
Tami Calais
Aging and Change Coach and founder of Calais Senior Consult (Vancouver, WA) who helps families navigate hard conversations with aging parents using Motivational Interviewing.
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Aug 24, 2026
How to Have Hard Conversations With Aging Parents Without Creating Resistance
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29:52Jeanette YatesHOST
And so I want you to Talk about how the conversation shifts and maybe anything that we need to know about navigating that resistance with someone who has dementia versus just someone who's being stubborn.

Tami CalaisGUEST
And it's something again, my class or my program, but we all have this innate reflex in us that wants to help people when we see them stuck or hurting or struggling, all of these things.

Tami CalaisGUEST
And that writing reflex is us wanting to fix it, to solve it, to educate people, make sure they have the right information or to be direct with them.
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