Cathy Sikorski, Esq is a frequent guest on television, radio programs, and podcasts as well as conferences where she speaks to promote financial and legal preparation in the aging crisis.
With more than 30 years of law and caregiving for 8 different family members and friends, she provides critical legal information for our aging population and those who serve them. Her first book is a humorous memoir Showering with Nana: Confessions of a Serial (killer) Caregiver (HumorOutcasts Press 2015).
Her second book, Who Moved My Teeth? Preparing for Self, Loved Ones and Caregiving with practical and legal tips for caregivers and baby boomers debuted at #1 on Amazon (Corner Office Books 2016).
Her third book, published in October 2021 by Corner Office Books 12 Conversations: How to Talk to Almost Anyone About Long-Term Care Planning gives a chapter-by-chapter entertaining and effective way to engage family and professionals.
Cathy has done many keynotes and was recently the Keynote Speaker at the National Caregivers Conferences in Chicago and Philadelphia. Her One-Act Play, All Caregiving Aside, was performed by the Writers Theatre of New Jersey at Kean University during the Healing VoicesOnStage: Caregivers’ Stories.
She has been featured on the Huffington Post, AARP and is a SheSource expert for the Women’s Media Center (WMC) in Washington, D.C. Cathy serves on the Board of Directors of Nancy’s House, a nonprofit dedicated to respite care for caregivers. Sikorski is a contributing author for the HumorOutcasts.com website, and she can be seen on the West Chester Story Slam YouTube channel. Sikorski maintains a blog “You just have to Laugh…where Caregiving is Comedy…” at www.cathysikorski.com.
Cathy’s Speaker website is at www.cathysikorski.com/Speaker
Sub-specialties:
1. The cost of aging and nursing homes. How the healthcare system is designed to make women destitute.
2. The difference between Medicare and Medicaid, and how not knowing can end you up ejected from a nursing home.
3. How women must learn to restructure their finances to prepare for aging and caregiving costs
4. How caregiving has turned caregivers (mostly women) into people with no money, no retirement funds and a shaky financial future.
5. How and why, you too have permission to laugh at caregiving
6. The hidden symptoms of aging that caregivers learn the hard way and healthcare ignores
7. Should pain medication be denied to the chronically ill aging population?
8. How medical marijuana can help in the nursing home setting
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12 Conversations: How to Talk to Almost Anyone about Long-Term Care Planning
Book published by Corner Office Books [October 2021] -
Who Moved My Teeth? Preparing for Self, Loved Ones, and Caregiving
Corner Office Books [November 2016] -
Showering with Nana: Confessions of a Serial (killer) Caregiver
Book. HumorOutcasts Press [2015] -
Five Unexpected Conversations You Can Have at Work - Episode 1 - Identifying The Issues
Podcast [April 5, 2022] -
Five Unexpected Conversations You Can Have at Work - Episode 2 - You Don't Know What You Don't Know
Podcast [April 5, 2022] -
Conference Chair and presenter
Nancy’s House Philadelphia National Caregiver’s Conference -
What Women Need to Know About Caregiving and Elder Law with Cathy Sikorski
Take Back Retirement podcast [2021] -
Becoming Destitute With a $2 Million Retirement Account
Rethinking 65 [February 2, 2021] -
National Cargiving Confrence
Keynote Speech [November 2017] -
How to Offer Criticism to Your Adult Kids
AARP Real Possibilities [September 2016] -
View from the 'burbs
The Philadelphia Inquirer [October 2016] -
Friday Happy Hour
WCHE Radio 1530 AM [December 2017] -
The After Life
Podcast [March 2018]