Preparing for Your Senior Years

The Conversations We Should Be Having in Our 50s

Real-Life Conversations About Health, Aging, Wellness, and Advocating for Yourself

Why I Am Starting This New Series

Many of you have been reading my blogs for the past year. You know I write often about health, wellness, aging, mindset, and learning how to live our best lives.

What you may not know is why these topics are so important to me.

Before we begin this new series, I want to introduce myself in a different way.

For decades, I have had the privilege of seeing healthcare from many different perspectives.

I have worked in patient care, medical staffing, rehabilitation, elder care, dementia and Alzheimer’s care, hospice care, and directly alongside physicians. Today, I work in Neurosurgery, Complex Spine, and Cerebrovascular at Swedish.

Some of my greatest lessons, however, didn’t come from a job title.

They came from caring for my own parents during hospice and, more recently, becoming a patient myself.

There is something very humbling about sitting on both sides of healthcare.

I know what it feels like to comfort a family.

I know what it feels like to advocate for a patient.

And now I know what it feels like to navigate pain, tests, appointments, uncertainty, and recovery as the patient.

Those experiences have shaped how I see health and wellness.

This series is not about giving medical advice.

It is about sharing the wisdom, lessons, and practical things I have learned over a lifetime of caring for others—and learning how to care for myself.

My hope is simple.

That something I share will encourage you to ask better questions, make healthier choices, advocate for yourself or someone you love, and realize that it is never too late to improve your quality of life.

Welcome to this new journey.

Let’s learn together.

Love,
Lady Flava ❣️🌻