Aug 27, 2026 · 28 min · 11 segments
Send us Fan Mail Five years. That’s the estimate Mark Wilson heard after his mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia and he decided…
Mark WilsonGuestRaina NisesHostWhen you have home health coming in, when you're paying people, and sometimes people even with hospice, like, no, you're not paying the bill, but Medicare is.
And that's hard when somebody hasn't been in the workforce and they haven't had to manage people to really put that hat on.
And I don't want to get too promoting in my book, but in my book, I have, how do you interview the caregiver? The questions to ask, how do you evaluate the expectations of your caregiver? I even have a section on coaching a caregiver because caregivers probably know more about caregiving than you do because they're professionals, but In my workplace, I had experts that worked for me that knew more about their specific part than I did.
But I knew enough to be able to ask questions and get them to discover ways to improve.
And I used that with the caregivers because I asked them questions and they helped identify what they could do better if they weren't perfect because I wanted perfect.
But at the same time, when you build that relationship and they're part of the family, then they do stick around.
And we found that some expected to be able to just sit on their phone and not do anything.
When you have home health coming in, when you're paying people, and sometimes people even with hospice, like, no, you're not paying the bill, but Medicare is.
And that's hard when somebody hasn't been in the workforce and they haven't had to manage people to really put that hat on.
And I don't want to get too promoting in my book, but in my book, I have, how do you interview the caregiver? The questions to ask, how do you evaluate the expectations of your caregiver? I even have a section on coaching a caregiver because caregivers probably know more about caregiving than you do because they're professionals, but In my workplace, I had experts that worked for me that knew more about their specific part than I did.
But I knew enough to be able to ask questions and get them to discover ways to improve.
And I used that with the caregivers because I asked them questions and they helped identify what they could do better if they weren't perfect because I wanted perfect.
But at the same time, when you build that relationship and they're part of the family, then they do stick around.
And we found that some expected to be able to just sit on their phone and not do anything.
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