Notes from the Care Partner Meetup: December 2024

24 December 2024
https://cdn.davisphinneyfoundation.org/2024/12/final.audio-Grief-Being-Present-and-Finding-Joy-December-2024-Care-Partner-Meetup.mp3

Written by Connie Carpenter Phinney, cofounder of the Davis Phinney Foundation and a care partner since 2000. 

Our December 2024 meetup featured Kathleen Crist, a true friend of all people with Parkinson’s and their care partners. Kathleen is the executive director of the Houston Area Parkinson’s Association, and she has been working with people with Parkinson’s for almost 24 years in her current role and before that as a licensed social worker. Kathleen is also a family caregiver, first for her grandmother, and now for her mother.  

The meetup also featured our regular panelists, Gail Gitin and Pat Donahoo. As usual, Polly Dawkins, Executive Director of the Davis Phinney Foundation, moderated the conversation.

If you haven’t already signed up to attend our sessions live, you can do so today.

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