Patty maintains this national care-related educational resource web site and responds to questions from Canadian families in all provinces through that site. Her passion for the issue is unparalleled as she learned her lessons the hard-way during her father's, mother's, mother-in-law's and husband's care-years journeys. She continues to speak nationally on the need for Canadian 50+ers to have care-years plans in place.
Patty's background is as a community development specialist, with extensive experience provincially, nationally and internationally. Her work includes such initiatives as B.C's drinking-driving CounterAttack Program for the Ministry of Attorney General; health programs in India with World Bank; education projects in Uganda 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.
During her career, Patty, an only child, acted as her parents' care-manager for over 2 decades. Then unexpectedly, in 1996, Patty came face-to-face with the more urgent challenges of long-term care when her aging father's and mother's 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.
But as she was soon to discover, her care-years journeys did not end then with the passing of both her parents.
Patty married in July of that same year, and soon after, in January 2006, assumed the role of care-manager of her 88-year old mother-in-law whom she and her husband, relocated to be closer to them.
But, shockingly, the unforeseen occurred in January of 2007, Patty's new husband was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer and she became his principal caregiver until his untimely death in mid 2008.
She continued with her mother-in-law's care-journey until January 2011 when her mother-in-law passed away, thus, finishing 16+ years of intensive long-term care-years journeys with loved ones.
As a result of her own and her loved ones' roller-coaster experiences organizationally, emotionally and financially, she is convinced that Canadian families now must take an active interest in care-years planning as part of a successful retirement-lifestyle.
Patty lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She travels widely and meets people from many parts of the world who are facing the same issue we are, how to plan for one's own and a loved one's care-years time of life.
Patty is often described as an 'edu-tainer' as she continues to do media work, write and speak!
Her work is both educational and solution-oriented, framed in a positive manner.
It is a 'call to action' for Canadian families 'to age successfully'
Patty Randall can be contacted at pattyr@telus.net |
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| During past project work in Uganda while daughter-caremanager of aging parents during their initial care-years |
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Celebrating Christmas with Mum (last one together) |
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Essential respite daughter-caregiver time with Dad during his residency in a nursing home to help with the adjustment after leaving his own home for declining health reasons (depression is common the first six months after moving to a nursing home) |
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