March 25, 2011 |
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 Deborah Bier, PhD, is Director of CCHC's Concord office
Find Out What You Should Know about Today’s Home Care!
21st Century Caregiving: Essentials for Caring for a Disabled or Aging Loved One gives you new insights to reducing the stress of caring for loved ones and improving their care.
Learn how the new challenges and opportunities of aging in the 21st century can come together to benefit elders and those with disabilities.
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March 15, 2011 |
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 March 22, 2011, 11 am
The Gardner Auditorium
State House, Boston, Massachusetts
Save Adult Day Health Programs from proposed funding cuts.
Adult Day Health (ADH) proposed rate cuts to take effect March 15. Governor’s FY 12 proposed budget would cut $55M in ADH funding and would eliminate “Basic” ADH services . Prevent the loss of 2500 jobs and vital services to 11,000 Seniors.
Here at CCC, we can’t say enough positive about good adult day programs. They cost little money to provide a huge amount of benefit. They not only provide great care and therapy for seniors, but they provide excellent respite for their families. They keep seniors in the community and out of far more expensive facilities. They can be nothing short of life-saving — and life-giving, too.
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 The new “Homestead Advantage Program” is being offered by Caring Resources of Norwood, MA. This program provides a cost-effective approach to dementia care and is aimed at helping dementia patients, their families and caregivers create the right environment and enable meaningful relationships.
Homestead Advantage encompasses individual caregiver education, support, guidance, care planning and appropriate referral sources to best meet the needs of the dementia client. This program includes a personalized, at-home assessment by a Certified Dementia Practitioner, a Geriatric Psychiatrist, and a Licensed Independent Social Worker to meet the clinical, social, and environmental needs of the dementia client.
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March 10, 2011 |
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American Patchwork & Quilting is encouraging quilters to provide 1 million pillowcases to people who need to know someone cares. People are turning their love of quilting and sewing into messages of comfort, hope and love. The idea is simple – make and give pillowcases to people in the community. The pillowcases we’re distributing come to us through Quilter’s Way in West Concord, MA, a local drop-off point for this project.
Quilter’s Way owner, Jane Barnett’s, mom recently passed away after aging in place, thought that the people aging at home would enjoy getting these pillowcases and passed them along to us last month. Aren’t they beautiful?
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March 7, 2011 |
Posted By Dr. Deborah Bier | Comments (0)
 Recently, I was honored to be part of a four-person panel at the Wayland Public Library speaking on the topic “What’s New in Aging?” We discussed navigating the new terrain of aging in the 21st century, followed by a question and answer session from the audience. Juergen H. Bludau, MD (photo at right), Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital geriatrician, and Carol Sneider Glick, Esq, elder law specialist with Squillace & Associates of Boston, were wonderful fellow panelists. (Part 2 of this talk is scheduled for April 6, 7pm at the same location – register here)
I want to note here high points of the evening, including the excellent questions the audience brought. I felt very much at home in the company of these speakers, all on the front lines of bringing best-quality care in a quickly changing landscape. My fellow panelists as well as the audience of about 45 from Wayland, Weston and beyond were enthusiastic and engaged with every presenter’s points. (more…)
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 Attorney Cathleen Summers We meet regularly with other firms serving the Massachusetts elder care and home care market to discuss how we can work together to serve our clients better. At one meeting recently, I was especially impressed with the elder law firm of Summers and Summers in Acton, MA. They are trying to think about elder law and elder care in new ways to serve a changing market. This is the kind of thinking required to address the demographic and market changes facing us today.
Summers and Summers has expanded their elder law practice to offer Geriatric Care Management services as well. Attorney Cathleen Summers is a Registered Nurse and a Geriatric Care Manager as well. We know many outstanding GCMs, but most are independent or work at hospitals or home care agencies. Combining elder law and geriatric care management is rare — unique, in our experience — but makes a great deal of sense. The job of a Geriatric Care Manager is to look at and to manage the “big picture” of a family’s elder care needs. This usually includes estate planning and other legal services, many of which are offered on a transaction basis without developing a relationship between the law firm and the family. (more…)
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March 4, 2011 |
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By Guest Blogger, Paula von Kleydorff, Program Director, Carleton-Willard At Home
(Editor’s Note: Caring Companion is proud to be a Carlton-Willard At Home recommended provider; CWatHome members enjoy special pricing or other considerations from recommended providers)
 Carleton-Willard At Home is in the forefront of what is being called a “Village Movement.” In 2001, Beacon Hill Village was the first in the country to begin providing comprehensive services to local residents who preferred to remain in their homes as they aged. Across the United States there are now 54 organizations similar to At Home and another 100 in development. Some are in the middle of urban areas, others are suburban and one in California covers hundreds of miles. But all have a common goal – giving local residents the peace of mind and support needed to age in place.
This past November, representatives from many of these groups came together in Philadelphia under the auspices of the Village to Village Network, a national organization launched last year. Throughout the two day conference, new and developing groups listened to and shared their stories, compared program offerings and brainstormed about ways to operate more effectively and efficiently.
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