COVID-19 Vaccine available in August: Why is this so important for older adults?
High-risk season is coming: Protect yourself from Covid 19 and the flu as recommended by the CDC.
CDC Recommends Updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 and Flu Vaccines for Fall/Winter Virus Season.
Planning for your “Retirement Years”: What is the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about?
In my 40 years of experience working with older adults in every environment, there is one crystal clear fact that I have learned: No one wants to plan for the end of their lives. This is understandable. Why would we want to think about that when we are focused on making our current lives the best that it can be?
At a Crossroad: Retirement Community or Staying Home? Tom and Elizabeth’s Journey
One of our newest programs, the Roadmap to Your Best Retirement Life, offers a transformative plan that provides peace of mind to older adults helping them design a tailored and informed blueprint of options that meet their unique retirement goals.
Untold Tragedy’s of COVID-19: Care Managers are advocates
The untold tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic is the decline and suffering of our most vulnerable older adults living in long term care facilities who have not historically risen to a high standard of care. Fortunately, as an Aging LIfe Care Professional we are able to advocate for our clients to place them in facilities that are providing excellent care. I am grateful for those partnerships and applaud their hard work in meeting the challenges that this moment in history forces them to face.
Longstanding partnerships with service providers helped me care for my client during covid-19
I met Mary two years ago. She was a vibrant active 73-year-old widow with a close circle of long-time friends whom she saw often. She would go to the Senior Center for exercise class, attend theatre and opera, and go out for lunch and of course, a walk to the neighborhood ice cream parlor daily. Her primary family support, her younger son David lived in New York City…
Porch Visits: Reducing Isolation
In my Care Management practice over the years, every relationship with a client starts with a face to face meeting. This connection and daily routine is as important to my clients’ well-being and stability as any medication that a physician prescribes. With the world pandemic of Covid-19, I’ve had to adapt my practice to keep everyone safe, while not losing that personal connection.
COVID 19: SPOUSAL CAREGIVING AT HOME:
Now, in comes a global pandemic and a “Stay at Home Order”. Not only have your activities gone out the window, but you fear your spouse will decline. You worry about your loved one’s health and what will happen if you become ill? Who will take care of your spouse?
Covid 19: Priorities for Older Adults staying home
As an experienced Care Manager, I have put together this document outlining priorities for older adults during these mandated stay-at-home times. If you do not have a support system and find that you need help putting together a plan that works, go to www.aginglifecare.org and plug in your zip code under the “Find a Care Manager” tab, or feel free to reach out for more information.
Covid 19: When your loved one is on lockdown in an Assisted Living Community.
Family, friends, companions, therapists and team members of all types including Care Managers are not allowed into the building to help support the older adult. They are in isolation. What can you do to help your loved one?
That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
I wanted to share with you this important article from the Harvard Business Review as many of us are grappling with feelings of grief during these difficult times.
Recommendations: Covid 19
It has only been two weeks since I sent out my first set of recommendations to you and yet the information about the coronavirus is changing rapidly with new recommendations and restrictions coming out almost daily. Here are my current recommendations:
