The Age of Caregiving Summit

Virtual Summit

Nov 14, 2026 | 10:00 AM EST

Caregiving Changes Everything. You Shouldn’t Have to Figure It Out Alone.

Caregiving can begin with a diagnosis.

A phone call.

An aging parent who suddenly needs more help.

A child whose needs change the rhythm of the entire family.

Or one small responsibility that slowly becomes ten.

Before long, you may find yourself managing appointments, medications, paperwork, family decisions, work, relationships, and the needs of someone you love while trying not to lose yourself in the process.

The Age of Caregiving Summit brings together speakers, experts, advocates, and caregivers to share practical strategies for navigating the realities of caregiving with greater clarity, confidence, connection, and support.

This summit is not about becoming the perfect caregiver.

It is about helping you better understand what you are carrying, make more informed decisions, strengthen family relationships, protect your own wellbeing, and feel less alone in a role that can change nearly every part of life.

Whether you are caring for an aging parent, parenting a child with complex needs, supporting someone through dementia or disability, navigating long-term caregiving, or preparing for what may come next, you’ll find conversations designed to meet you where you are.

What You’ll Walk Away With

Greater Confidence Navigating Care

Learn practical approaches to changing family roles, difficult conversations, caregiving decisions, planning, paperwork, resources, and the everyday realities families often have to figure out as they go.

Stronger Family Connection

Explore how to stay connected through dementia, changing roles, resistance, disability, stress, and family transitions while creating healthier ways to communicate and care for one another.

Support for the Caregiver

Discover strategies for managing stress, physical strain, emotional overload, guilt, exhaustion, and the pressure of being the person everyone depends on.

Who Should Attend

The Age of Caregiving Summit is for anyone navigating caregiving now, preparing for what may come next, or supporting families through care, including:

Adults caring for aging parents
Families navigating dementia or cognitive change
Parents caring for children with disabilities or complex needs
Long-term family caregivers
Working caregivers balancing career and care
Spouses, partners, siblings, and other family supporters
Healthcare, caregiving, and helping professionals
Anyone who wants to better understand and prepare for the realities of caregiving

Speaker Lineup: Featured Speakers

Featured Speaker: Dr. Anna Thomas

Opening Keynote: The Age of Caregiving

Caregiving is no longer a side issue affecting a small number of families. It is becoming one of the defining realities of modern life.

Dr. Anna Thomas opens the summit with a look at what the Age of Caregiving means for individuals, families, workplaces, and communities, and why we need to think differently about how we prepare for and support care.

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Anna Thomas is a board-certified physician, author, speaker, and caregiving and workplace wellbeing strategist. Drawing from her experience in internal medicine, palliative care, leadership, and family caregiving, she helps individuals and organizations navigate the growing realities of care with greater confidence and practical support.

Featured Speaker: Jennifer Fink

Decoding Family Dynamics: Navigating Roles, Resistance, and Realities

Caring for an aging loved one often exposes the fault lines in family relationships. Old habits resurface, communication breaks down, and the division of labor frequently falls on one person's shoulders.

This session provides a practical roadmap to decode family resistance, bypass emotional landmines, and foster genuine collaboration. Jennifer will share actionable communication techniques for conducting constructive family conversations, establishing shared goals, and distributing caregiving responsibilities more effectively, helping families move from division toward shared support.

Speaker Bio:

Jennifer Fink is a caregiving strategist and veteran advocate who helps organizations better support working caregivers. With 20 years of experience navigating the complexities of Alzheimer’s and dementia care, she bridges high-level strategy with the day-to-day realities families and caregivers face.

As host of the Dementia Decoded podcast for nearly a decade, Jennifer has built an extensive network of experts focused on solving the logistical and emotional challenges of caregiving. Her work helps caregivers and organizations move from caregiving chaos toward a more manageable strategy.

Featured Speaker: Dr. Staci Moore

The L.I.E. Caregivers Can't Afford to Ignore: Line Up the Paperwork, Install the Silent Help, Ease the Body

Caregiving can create constant administrative, mental, and physical overload.

In this practical session, Dr. Staci Moore introduces L.I.E., three components of her R.E.L.I.E.F. Method™ designed to help caregivers create more structure and reduce daily strain.

Participants will learn how to line up critical paperwork before a crisis, use AI as “silent help” to reduce cognitive load, and build simple routines that protect their own capacity while caring for others.

The session gives caregivers three immediate, practical moves they can use to reduce chaos, improve preparedness, and make caregiving more sustainable.

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Staci Moore, known as TheOper8tor, is a Certified Caregiver, Certified Relationship Coach, caregiver advocate, and Certified AI strategist focused on helping Gen X women navigate caregiving without losing themselves in the process.

Her work is grounded in lived experience supporting family through dementia, medical crises, and long-term care. She combines caregiving insight, systems thinking, and technology to help families reduce overwhelm, improve organization, and protect caregiver capacity. She is also the creator of the Senior Care Planner and the Life-on-Hold Exit Strategy Workbook and teaches caregivers how to use AI as “silent help” for planning, communication, and cognitive load.

Featured Speaker: Lani Almanza

Remember to Breathe: Sacred Steps for Self Care

Caregiving can take you from calm to chaos in one breath.

Caregiving changes you. It stretches you, challenges you, and shapes you. But somewhere along the way, pieces of you can get lost.

Lani Almanza shares how caregivers can begin finding their way back to wholeness through simple, sacred steps, one breath at a time. Drawing from her own lived experiences in different caregiving roles, she will help attendees reflect on their past, present, and future caregiving journeys and identify practical ways to move through those experiences.

Speaker Bio:

Lani Almanza holds a Master’s degree in Communication from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and has worked in leadership roles related to health communication and community engagement.

Her life experience includes being a wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, trainer, and facilitator across education, business, and nonprofit settings. She facilitates wellness retreats and workshops and is the author of Under a Full Moon and a Guiding Star and Beyond the Horizon: A Guide for Life’s Journey. Through Alaka’i Associates, she serves as a wellness guide and mentor and is also a contributing editor for Givers Guides, which supports the caregiver-focused nonprofit Gimme A Break.

Featured Speaker: Beth Meek

You Matter Too: The Mindset Shift That Changes Caregiving

When you're caring for someone you love, it's easy to slowly move your own needs further and further down the list until putting yourself last begins to feel like what caregiving requires.

But lasting self-care doesn't begin with finding more time, following the perfect routine, or adding another thing to an already-full day.

It begins by challenging the belief that caring well for someone else requires disappearing from your own life.

Drawing from her experience as a two-time caregiver and health coach, Beth Meek will help caregivers recognize the mindset that keeps their needs on hold and discover realistic ways to begin caring for themselves too, without waiting until caregiving is over.

Speaker Bio:

Beth Meek is a Certified Holistic Nutrition Expert, health coach, speaker, author, and two-time caregiver who helps women stop disappearing from their own lives while caring for someone they love.

After experiencing firsthand how easy it was to put her own care aside and how much of herself she lost in the process, Beth made it her mission to help other caregivers approach self-care differently. Her mindset-first approach helps women challenge guilt and beliefs that keep them at the bottom of their own list, then build realistic self-care that fits the unpredictability of caregiving

Featured Speaker: Dr. Princess Millens

Caring for Others Without Losing Yourself

Caring for others is one of life's greatest responsibilities, but it often comes with an invisible emotional cost. Whether supporting an aging parent, a loved one living with dementia, or balancing the demands of work and family, many caregivers quietly carry responsibilities that affect their resilience, decision-making, and overall wellbeing.

In this engaging session, Leadership Grief Strategist Dr. Princess Millens explores the hidden weight caregivers often overlook and shares practical strategies for protecting their emotional capacity while continuing to care with compassion. Participants will leave feeling seen, equipped, and empowered with tools they can immediately apply in everyday life.

Speaker Bio:

Princess Millens, EdS, PhD, is an author, speaker, resilience educator, and Leadership Grief Strategist who helps individuals and organizations navigate the hidden emotional weight of life's most demanding seasons.

As creator of the Whole-Soul EQ™ Framework and founder of Blessed and Beautiful International, she equips people with practical, grief-informed strategies to build resilience, strengthen emotional wellbeing, and lead with greater clarity and confidence. She is the author of The Cost of Carrying Everything and Joy Comes in the Morning.