Making caring for your ageing parents easier
Step-by-step strategies, knowledge and scripts to help you reduce carer stress, prevent burnout, have the difficult conversations you’ve been avoiding, create family alignment, and put a care plan in place for your ageing loved one's future. Become the carer you want to be!
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Hi, I'm Melissa Levi 👋🏼
I'm a Clinical Psychologist & Author specialising in older people's mental health & dementia, and I have spent more than a decade helping more than 1,000 families successfully navigate the ageing and caring journey - and I can help your family too!
I’ve come to know that while every family’s story is unique, we all share the same fears and questions about ageing.
I've now taken the same strategies, knowledge, scripts and actionable exercises that I give to families face-to-face and distilled them into my very first online course:
'My 7 Step System to Managing Carer Stress
& Preventing Burnout'
My mission is to help caregivers and families all around the
world make caring for their ageing loved ones easier.
My first course includes:
💛 Support for Caregivers
✅ Create your care system, and design your village
✅ Learn to navigate changes in relationship dynamics
(e.g. becoming your Mum's caregiver)
✅ Have more knowledge and clarity for today, and understand your options and next steps for tomorrow
✅ I will provide your family with greater peace of mind, and more confidence, knowledge, skills and strategies to make this stage of life easier. We will reduce your fears and anxieties, manage carer stress and prevent burnout.
💛 Making Difficult Conversations Easier
✅ I'll help your family have the difficult conversations with your ageing loved one, that you've likely been avoiding;
about ageing, health, care and even death.
✅ We'll put a structure in place to have conversations with your village about their roles, responsibilities and expectations
✅ And I will also provide you with questions to ask your ageing loved one's medical, legal & financial professionals
And there is so much more to come in 2024
(included in the current foundation price)
Workshops on dementia, BPSD, late life depression
& anxiety, navigating the aged care maze,
grief & bereavement, and more!
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About Melissa & 'We Need to Talk About Ageing'
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"Warm and compassionate, Melissa offers sound clinical information and practical advice... Sure to be helpful for all families."
- Scientia Professor Henry Brodaty, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, UNSW Sydney
"We all MUST talk about old age and cognitive impairment, and this stellar book shows the way! An absolute must read!"
- Associate Professor David Burke, Discipline of Psychiatry, UNDA Sydney
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If you're reading this, you're likely caring for someone you love.
You're wanting the very best for your mum, dad, grandma, grandpa or ageing loved one. And you're probably finding it really hard, exhausting, confusing, often thankless and relentless.
From dementia to late life depression and anxiety, from navigating the aged care maze to carer stress and support. There is so much to learn, so many appointments and diagnoses, and so many emotions.
Firstly, I just want to say that you are not alone. Being a carer is one of the hardest and most important roles we'll play in our lives - while similtaneously trying to juggle the rest of life's responsibilities (kids, pets, friends, work - and our own mental health too).
As a clinical psychologist specialising in older people's mental health and dementia, I've helped 1,000+ families walk this journey. I’ve come to know that while every family’s story is unique, we all share the same fears and questions about ageing.
My promise to you is that together, we'll solve problems, you'll have more clarity for today, and you'll understand the options and next steps for tomorrow. My hope is to provide your family with greater peace of mind, and more confidence, knowledge, skills and strategies to make this stage of life easier. We will reduce your fears and anxieties, manage carer stress and prevent burnout.
I can't wait to help your family.
Melissa
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Is my program for you?
Are you feeling exhausted and overwhelmed by the daily demands of caring for Mum, Dad or an ageing loved one?
Do you have limited time, energy and resources to care for yourself?
Does your family avoid the big, important conversations about care, health and death?
Do you lie awake at night with a fear of tomorrow? (Worrying about your ageing loved one's future care, that never-ending mental to-do list, financial stress, etc.)
Are you struggling to navigate changes in relationship dynamics (Do you miss just being your Dad's daughter?)
Are you stressed and uncertain about taking on additional, new caregiving roles with no support or education?
Are you experiencing family conflict?
What to expect:
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13 modules, 40+ videos (approximately 5 hours worth of proprietary knowledge, strategies and exercises, which you can watch at your own pace)
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Carer workbook (Full of actionable exercises, scripts, question lists; everything you need to bring My 7 Step System to life and make it work for you and your family)
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I recommend doing the course from start to finish, but if you are time poor, you can jump straight to the modules that are most relevant to your personal circumstances
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Lifetime access to this course, plus you'll get free access to all new programs that are released in 2024! (Dementia, Late Life Depression & Anxiety, and Navigating the Aged Care Maze)
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You will also get access to everything I launch over the next 12 months (a private Talking Ageing community, weekly live webinar Q&A's!)
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This is a course led from the heart, backed by clinical research and excellence, told through personal stories. My aim is to help you achieve the best care for your Mum, Dad or ageing loved one, to set your family up for success, and to allow you to invest in yourself, so that you can become the carer you want to be (as well as the partner, parent, friend and person you want to be)!
FAQs
Who is this course for?
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This course is for you if you're caring for an ageing loved one, and you're finding it really hard, exhausting, confusing, often thankless and relentless.
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This course is for you if you're willing to learn new ways of thinking about caring, and you're willing to put in the 'work' to improve the care of both your ageing loved one, and your own self-care too.
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This course is for you if it's time to have the big, important conversations your family has been avoiding.
Who should NOT buy this course?
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The ideas and strategies in this course only work if you take action. To see success, this course requires an investment of your time (and ideally your family's time too). I have successfully used these strategies and exercises with more than 1,000 families - and truly seen life changing results.
Is this course only for Australians or are they suitable for anyone around the world?
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Ageing is a universal experience. Being Australian, I use 'Mum' instead of 'Mom', 'Ageing' instead of 'Aging', but the knowledge, strategies and exercises can be used by all families, irrespective of where you live. I have worked with families from Australia, USA, UK, EU and Asia.
How much is this course
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This course is USD $297 and includes all the knowledge, strategies and exercises that I would typically work through over over 8-10 face to face session (at a cost of more than USD $2,500!)
What if Talking Ageing isn't right for me?
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I'm confident that this course gives you the knowledge, strategies and exercises you need to become the carer you want to be. Change is possible..
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If you don’t find the tools and support you need, contact us within 14 days to discuss a refund.
Do you have an online community?
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In 2024 we'll be creating a private Talking Ageing online community.
How long is the course?
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There is approximately 5 hours worth of content in this course, and 13 exercises; for you, for your ageing loved one (depending on their capacity and capability) and for your village. This course is self-paced, and you have ongoing access to the content, including future updates.
Are your courses online or in person?
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Our courses and exercises are delivered entirely online. You will be provided with a login to our learning platform where you will be provided with the videos and downloadable PDF worksheets.
I'm not tech savvy, will this be too hard for me?
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Not at all. Talking Ageing is online, available on any device, and once you've become a member you'll be sent an email with your login details. The platform we use has been used by millions of people around the world - but if you have any issues, reach out to us.
Can I use my iPad or iPhone instead of a computer?
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Absolutely. I personally find the larger the screen the better, but you can use any mobile device, tablet or computer. Additionally, I recommend that you print off the PDF exercises.
What downloads come with the course?
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Each module has a downloadable exercise, or you can download the entire course in a single PDF (approx 100 pages to change your family's care story!)
What access will I have to Melissa as a member?
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If you’re looking for me, this is where you’ll find me.
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Over the next year I will be looking to host live events, webinars and Q&A sessions for my members. We will also be setting up a private community so you can access my team, and your peers; your extended village.
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As stated in our Terms of Use, Talking Ageing is not engaged in rendering therapy services by providing the Site, and your use of the Site does not create any therapist-patient or other treatment relationship between you and Talking Ageing or Melissa Levi or any of its representatives.
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