About Patricia (Patty) L. Randall

Vision

The Care-Years—Maintaining independence, dignity, joy and quality of life

Mission

To help adult Canadians move with confidence and direction through their parents’ and their own long-term care years stage of life

Purpose

Due to our country’s aging population phenomenon, millions of us are now faced with a challenge for which we are truly unprepared -- caring for our aging parents and other loved ones and preparing for our own care!
Specializes in helping boomers and young seniors plan well in advance,
organizationally, emotionally and financially, so as to sustain independence when health needs begin to change. Works with companies interested in educating their clients/assisting their employees/reaching out to communities through care-years-related programs

Author

“Let’s Talk—The Care-Years…
Taking Care Of Our Parents/Planning For Ourselves”
First of its kind in Canada - Written by a Canadian, for Canadians
Based on one family’s personal journey.

Background

Patty Randall is a national consultant on “the care years”. Her background is as a community development specialist, with extensive experience provincially, nationally and internationally in the design, development and implementation of large-scale social issue programs.

Her work includes such initiatives as British Columbia’s drinking-driving CounterAttack Program for the province’s Ministry of Attorney General; health programs in India with World Bank; education projects in Uganda East Africa for Canada’s International Development Agency; and management for change and women’s entrepreneur programs in Czech and Slovak Republics through Canada’s External Affairs.

Patty acted as a care-guide for over 20 years with her parents; then unexpectedly, in 1996, Patty also came face-to-face with the urgent challenges of long-term care when her aging parents' increasingly frail health conditions (both physical and mental) propelled her unprepared into a daughter-caregiver-caremanager role---a role, which continued until August 2005, when her mother passed away. Patty married in July 2005 and in January of 2006 became a care-manager along with her husband of her mother-in-law whom they relocated to an independent-assisted living residence in Vancouver to be closer to them. Shockingly, in January of 2007, Patty's husband became ill and she became his principal caregiver over the next year plus until his death in mid 2008...Patty now continues as the main care-manager for her mother-in-law.

As a result of her family’s roller-coaster experiences organizationally and emotionally and her absolutely shocking discoveries around the costs of care, she became convinced that Canadian boomers and young seniors now must not only take an active interest in but also plan well in advance for that less-than-glamorous stage of life which she calls the ‘care-years’.

Patty has written and published a detailed, practical guidebook called, “Let’s Talk—The Care-Years…Taking Care Of Our Parents/Planning For Ourselves” with its accompanying “Care-Years Planner” for individual family use--it is the first of its kind resource in Canada, written by a Canadian for Canadians.

She now works exclusively speaking and consulting nationally on the care-issue.

ISBN -0-9782215-0-8

Patty addresses the following for Canadians:

• Long-Term Care
• Overall Care Years
• Care Giving
• Nursing Homes
• Home Care
• Care Receiving
• Caring for a Parent / Eldercare
• Caring for a Spouse
• Impact of Long-Term Care on Retirement Planning
• Impact of Long-Term Care on Lifestyle Planning
• Independence and Choices for Seniors
• Seniors’ Health Care
• Aging
• Saving One’s Assets
• Long-Term Care and Quality of Life
• Government Programs for Seniors
• Resources for Seniors
• Planning for the Long-Term Care Stage of Life
• Long-Term Care Insurance, a 21st Century Product for
  Canadians

 
For the first time in history, Canadian adults have more parents than children