AgeWays Nonprofit Senior Services, a nonprofit focused on helping older adults and family caregivers, is hosting Caregiver Connections: Learn, Link & Lunch on Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi. The event runs from 10 a.
m. to 1:30 p.m.
A $10 entrance fee covers a light breakfast and boxed lunch — and a program that features two dynamic speakers who have been in the caregiving trenches, caregiver-focused exhibitors from the aging-services network, on-site help from the AgeWays Resource Center team, raffles, giveaways and more. “We know that supporting family caregivers is critical to caring for the older adults in our region. They need information, resources and respite care.
They can’t do it alone,” says AgeWays Director of Communications Kathleen Yanik. “The event is all about helping caregivers connect with resources and get the help they need.” Christy McDonald, an Emmy award-winning TV personality at WDIV/TV 4, will give the keynote address, “Hope, Grief and The Unknown: A Caregiver’s Journey.
” McDonald cared for her late husband, Jamie Samuelsen, a sportscaster who died of colon cancer in 2020. She will speak on “Hope, Grief and the Unknown: A Caregiver’s Journey” about her experience and what helped her through it. She’ll help caregivers embrace their own tough and beautiful moments — what makes us laugh and what gives us hope.
McDonald is raising her three children in her hometown of Troy. Jim Mangi, PhD, will spe.