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CareCheckers Call Service Checks on Your Elderly Loved Ones

CareCheckers Call Service Checks on Your Elderly Loved Ones

CareCalls from Care Checkers are designed to assist families of aging and disabled loved ones by making daily health and safety checkup calls.  Care Checkers offers medication reminders, meal reminders and activity reminders, along with friendly social interaction. All calls are made by live representatives, not an automated system. They keep caregivers updated with daily status reports [...]

Massachusetts General Hospital Documents the Benefits of Care Managers

Massachusetts General Hospital Documents the Benefits of Care Managers

Where do geriatric care managers fit into the health care system? Today I listened to a presentation about innovations in the delivery of health care.  Timothy Ferris, M.D., M.Phil, M.P.H., Medical Director, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization reported these important results of adding care managers to Massachussets General Hospital (a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School) in a [...]

Lifetime Home Survey from BuilderFish

Does Your Elderly Loved One’s House Support Their Needs?

My pals at BuilderFish have produced a very practical guide for making sure your home supports you and your loved ones at every stage of life.  The BuilderFish “Lifetime Home Survey” is free, comprehensive, easy to read and easy to apply. If you’re building a new home, remodeling your home, or preparing for the move-in of a loved [...]

Old age -- and caregiving -- require moxie!

Thanking my clients for their…Moxie!

My clients have moxie.  I love them for it! Two of my beloved clients died this year but while they lived they did it moxily!  One of them raised three kids on her own after her husband was killed suddenly in a freak accident.  She picked herself up and did what needed to be done – [...]