Plan Your Long-Term Care Before Crisis Hits — Creative Care, Estate Protection & the Truth About Trusts | Lindsay Friedman

What if the way we think about elder care is completely backwards?In Part 2 of this essential conversation on Your Health Reclaimed, Dr. Brad Montagne and long-term care expert Lindsay Friedman go beyond the basics — into the deeply human side of aging, caregiving, and what it truly means to plan for your future with dignity and intention.Lindsay returns with insights from a book that's reshaping how she thinks about care: Creative Care by Dr. Anne Basting. The TimeSlips movement — where nursing home residents become storytellers, actors, and creators — is proving that purpose and creativity aren't luxuries. They're medicine.Dr. Brad shares an extraordinary personal story from his time doing street drama in Siberia, where a grandmother's tears showed him the profound power of human connection through art. Then they take it even further: what if assisted living facilities housed daycares? What if aides' children played with residents every day? The research — and common sense — says it works.🔑 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:→ The Creative Care movement and how storytelling, drama, and art extend wellbeing for people with dementia → Why Bingo isn't enough — and what truly engaged elder activity looks like → Intergenerational programs: why facilities with children are measurably healthier → The daycare-in-assisted-living idea that could solve the staffing crisis and transform daily life for residents → Why you cannot wait for a diagnosis to start long-term care planning — and what "planning ahead" actually means in practice → The shocking difference between a will and a trust, and how failing to establish a trust costs families everything → How LT Care Nav is completely free for families — and why that matters → Why you — not your family — must be the one to create your care plan → The critical importance of values alignment between you and whoever manages your care → Dr. Brad's 90-year-old mother: transferred to hospice, then walking home four days later — and the two simple interventions that made it possibleThis is the episode that changes how you think about the end of life — not as a thing that happens to you, but as something you can shape, plan for, and approach with purpose.🎧 ALSO AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE — Watch the full visual conversation at: youtube.com/@Yourhealthreclaimed👤 ABOUT LINDSAY FRIEDMAN: Lindsay is the founder of LT Care Nav (ltcarenav.com) and Care Bloom. Her 25-year career spans every level of the eldercare ecosystem. Her upcoming podcast is called The Caregiver's Compass.👤 ABOUT DR. BRAD MONTAGNE: Dr. Brad is the host of Your Health Reclaimed, focused on root cause healing rather than chasing diagnoses. Find him at healthfullyu.com | @healthfullyu.📩 Work with Lindsay: [email protected] | ltcarenav.com 📩 Work with Dr. Brad: healthfullyu.comNew episodes drop every Monday & Thursday. Don't miss one — subscribe now.