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: How to Survive the Age of Caregiving: From Overwhelmed Caregiver to Confident Care Leader

Caregiving often comes without warning, training, or a roadmap. Suddenly, you're navigating medical decisions, coordinating support, balancing responsibilities, and trying to hold everything together.

But being a great caregiver doesn't mean doing everything yourself.

Join Dr. Anna Thomas, physician, author, and caregiving leadership expert, as she introduces the Care Leader Blueprint™, a practical framework to help you move from overwhelmed caregiver to confident Care Leader.

Discover how to lead with intention, make strategic decisions about what to own, oversee, and outsource, and build a support team that shares the responsibility.

Leave with practical tools to navigate caregiving with greater clarity, confidence, and support while protecting what matters in your own life.

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: Robin Weeks

You're a Capable Woman. Why Does Caregiving Feel So Hard? How to Stop Reacting to Caregiving and Start Leading It

Capable women manage teams, solve problems, make decisions, and handle competing priorities every day but when they become caregivers, those same skills often disappear into a cycle of urgency, guilt, and reaction. The problem isn't a lack of capability; it's that no one taught us to lead caregiving as a complex, ongoing job. In this session, Robin challenges the traditional view of caregiving and introduces a leadership framework that helps caregivers separate the job of caregiving from their relationship with the person they love, create clarity, share responsibility, and move from constantly reacting to intentionally leading. Participants will leave with a fundamentally different way to think about their role”and a practical starting point for changing how they approach caregiving.

Speaker Bio:

Robin is a caregiver leadership coach, consultant, and speaker who helps people stop reacting to caregiving and start leading it. She recognizes that caregiving is episodic it enters our lives through family, often unexpectedly, and without a job description, training, orication, delegation, planning, and self-management to the complexity of caring for an aging parent or other adult relative. Her message is direct: caregivers don't necessarily need more information or another list of resources. They need a framework for leading the work. Robin turns the chaos and complexity of caregiving into practical strategies that help people make better decisions, reduce reactivity, and lead with greater clarity and intention.

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.