Moving Toward Home Care

Moving Toward Home Care

Getting your senior to accept help from a home care professional is not always an easy step.  After being completely independent for decades, the idea of having a non-family member so deeply involved in his or her daily activities can be challenging.  Fortunately,...
Talk Now

Talk Now

“It always seems too soon, until it’s too late.” Life begins and life ends.  In between, we make all sorts of plans. Plans for weddings, long vacations, building a new house, selecting a college. Lots of thought goes into these plans and we take planning seriously....
Signs your Identity May Have Been Stolen

Signs your Identity May Have Been Stolen

Unlike a robbery or break-in where you know immediately that you have a loss, identity theft can remain hidden for days or weeks before you know you have been stolen from. Identity thieves search for ways to use your personal information to charge purchases, get your...
When a Senior Falls

When a Senior Falls

“Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” This famous line from an old TV commercial is part of the American lexicon.  It is often used as part of a joke, perhaps because the TV commercial was so hokey. But, falling is not a laughing matter.  As we get older, muscles...
Advance Directives – Do Not Delay

Advance Directives – Do Not Delay

As we made plans to include this article in our blog series, we had the overwhelming feeling that “everybody knows this”.  And, as we spoke to the adult children of a few clients we discovered to our dismay that a surprising number of people have not given thought to...