It’s a Family Affair: How the dynamics of aging impact the entire family

Today Barbara is joined by her friend and colleague Bunni Dybnis. A licensed marriage and family therapist, Bunni worked as an Aging Life Care Manager for years and is now a mediator, helping families of the aging and terminally ill work through bereavement, adjustments and transitions. She tells Barbara about her journey to the field of geriatrics, sparked by a course she took through UCLA’s medical school on death and suicide. Bunni realized then how death impacts the person who dies as well as their entire family unit, and teaching families to deal with loss became her mission. Tune in to hear Bunni describe her training and work as an elder/family mediator, helping adult children in conflict with each other, with a second spouse, or with a resistant parent to find resolution and caregiving solutions.

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