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title: "Podcast: The Caregiving Roadmap Interview with MindTalk HK"
description: Kristen Carusos, founder of CrossGen Health, speaks with MindTalk HK about how to plan for caregiving for our ageing parents
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# Podcast: The Caregiving Roadmap Interview with MindTalk HK

Kristen Carusos, founder of CrossGen Health, speaks with MindTalk HK about how to plan for caregiving for our ageing parents

[Kristen Carusos](https://www.crossgenhealth.com/crossgen-health-blog/author/kristen-carusos)

 Aug 6, 2026

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Kristen Carusos, founder of CrossGen Health, explains how her consultancy helps adult children and aging parents consolidate health data and create an aging and caregiving roadmap before a crisis occurs. Inspired by preventive health concerns and her family’s experience with dementia—complicated by missing documents and reactive decision-making—she urges families to start conversations early, at calm non-holiday times, and to include spouses and siblings in planning roles. She highlights misconceptions that caregiving is solved by hiring help or paying money, emphasizing the time, energy, and specifics involved, plus caregiver burnout and sandwich-generation pressures. Carusos recommends organising medical histories, insurance, doctors, and legal directives (e.g., power of attorney, wills, advanced medical directives), using tools like Hong Kong’s eHealth and shared document systems, and notes Hong Kong resource silos and language gaps while sharing available community initiatives. 

In this MindTalk HK conversation, Kristen Carusos, founder of CrossGen Health, shares how families can prepare for aging and caregiving before a crisis occurs. Drawing on both her professional work and her family’s experience with dementia, Kristen explains why early, calm conversations matter—and how better preparation can reduce stress, confusion, and conflict later on.

She discusses common caregiving misconceptions, the emotional and practical pressures many adult children face, and the importance of organizing health information, legal documents, roles, and expectations across the family. The conversation also explores the unique challenges families face in Hong Kong, including fragmented resources and language barriers, while highlighting tools and community support that can help.

## Episode Chapters

**00:00** Meet Kristen

**00:37** Why CrossGen Health

**02:06** Caregiving Roadmap Basics

**03:49** Personal Dementia Wake-Up

**06:55** When to Start Talking

**10:21** Caregiving Myths in Asia

**12:27** Getting Parents to Open Up

**14:49** Stop Nagging, Start Respect

**16:25** Social Health and Longevity

**17:28** Purpose and Healthy Aging

**19:32** What Adult Children Fear

**21:28** Culture and Death Talk

**22:05** Money Talk Barriers

**22:40** Retirement Planning Approach

**24:11** Wills and Sibling Conflict

**25:39** Sandwich Generation Burnout

**27:45** Caregiving Prep Documents

**28:01** Medical Records System

**30:23** End-of-Life Entry Points

**33:17** Hong Kong Support Gaps

**34:56** Local Programs and Services

**37:20** Helping Expats Remotely

**39:45** Company Vision and Wrap

**Instagram:** @crossgenhealth

**Website:** www.crossgenhealth.com

**Substack:** substack.com/@kristencarusos

**LinkedIn:** /kristencarusos

 

## Useful Links

**Harvard Happiness Study:** https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...

**Secrets of Women’s Healthy Aging:** https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Womens...

**Captain Softmeal:** https://www.captainsoftmeal.com/en

**eHealth app and how to connect your family’s eHealth records to yours:** https://www.instagram.com/reel/DT0DJ-...

**Elderly Academy:** https://www.elderacademy.org.hk/cours...

**Elderly Helper Training:** https://www.swd.gov.hk/en/pubsvc/elde...

## About MindTalk HK

MindTalk HK is a platform focused on self-development and women’s empowerment, helping people live with greater authenticity and courage.

**Website:** https://themindtalk.co

**Instagram:** /themindtalkasia

**Facebook:** https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

 

 

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