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Your Pre-New Year Retirement Countdown
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Guide to Navigating Holiday Stress
You may be already dealing with stress as you juggle caring for your parent with family responsibilities and holding down a job. Now that the holidays are here, the extra stress may just put you over the edge. It’s important that you, as a caregiver, take care of yourself during this busy time of year.
Here are …Read more ›
10 Holiday Gift Ideas for Senior Living Residents
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… but it can be the most stressful time of the year, too. Though you’d like to give meaningful holiday gifts, shopping for a loved one in senior living may present a challenge. Where can you find memorable gifts that show you really care?
Adapting Holiday Traditions in Senior Living
The holiday season is upon us. It’s time to get ready for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve—whatever holidays that you celebrate. If your parent has moved into senior living over the past year, how might that affect your holiday celebration and your long-standing family traditions? (more…)
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Tips for Peaceful Intergenerational Family Holidays
The holidays are a wonderful time to bring family together, but they can also be a hotbed of conflict and stress. How can young and old push past political, religious, and generational divisions to find common ground and enjoy each other’s company this holiday season?
Tagged with: communication, discussion, family, holidays, intergenerational, relationships, seniors, tips
Holiday Gift Ideas for Mom and Dad
For many of us, our parents are the most difficult-to-buy-for people on our holiday shopping list. It’s hard to come up with Christmas gift ideas for parents who have everything. Or in some cases, because of physical and cognitive impairments, they may have certain limitations that curtail the gifts they can use and enjoy. …Read more ›
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#ElderCareChat 11/18/2015: Senior Living Search 101
Fact: 47 participants + 711 total tweets + 5,576,413 impressions = one hour chock full of resources for anyone considering a senior living search now or in the future. (more…)
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Community Luminarias Lit to Help Less Fortunate
In a holiday season marked by world-wide fear, anger, and uncertainty, it’s nice to hear about the charitable efforts made by people with goodwill in their hearts. A 55+ community in Bethlehem, PA came together on December 13th to light more than 1,000 luminarias at their homes to support New Bethany Ministries’ “Luminaria Night of 2014.” This is the …Read more ›
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Your Pre-New Year Retirement Countdown
Tagged with: budget, finance, holidays, insurance, life insurance, long term care insurance, managing finances, medicare, retirement, seniors
Guide to Navigating Holiday Stress
You may be already dealing with stress as you juggle caring for your parent with family responsibilities and holding down a job. Now that the holidays are here, the extra stress may just put you over the edge. It’s important that you, as a caregiver, take care of yourself during this busy time of year.
Here are …Read more ›
10 Holiday Gift Ideas for Senior Living Residents
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… but it can be the most stressful time of the year, too. Though you’d like to give meaningful holiday gifts, shopping for a loved one in senior living may present a challenge. Where can you find memorable gifts that show you really care?
Adapting Holiday Traditions in Senior Living
The holiday season is upon us. It’s time to get ready for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve—whatever holidays that you celebrate. If your parent has moved into senior living over the past year, how might that affect your holiday celebration and your long-standing family traditions? (more…)
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Tips for Peaceful Intergenerational Family Holidays
The holidays are a wonderful time to bring family together, but they can also be a hotbed of conflict and stress. How can young and old push past political, religious, and generational divisions to find common ground and enjoy each other’s company this holiday season?
Tagged with: communication, discussion, family, holidays, intergenerational, relationships, seniors, tips
Holiday Gift Ideas for Mom and Dad
For many of us, our parents are the most difficult-to-buy-for people on our holiday shopping list. It’s hard to come up with Christmas gift ideas for parents who have everything. Or in some cases, because of physical and cognitive impairments, they may have certain limitations that curtail the gifts they can use and enjoy. …Read more ›
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#ElderCareChat 11/18/2015: Senior Living Search 101
Fact: 47 participants + 711 total tweets + 5,576,413 impressions = one hour chock full of resources for anyone considering a senior living search now or in the future. (more…)
Tagged with: #eldercarechat, aging parents, assisted living, ccrcs, chat, continuing care retirement communities, holidays, senior living, seniors, siblings, tips, twitter
Community Luminarias Lit to Help Less Fortunate
In a holiday season marked by world-wide fear, anger, and uncertainty, it’s nice to hear about the charitable efforts made by people with goodwill in their hearts. A 55+ community in Bethlehem, PA came together on December 13th to light more than 1,000 luminarias at their homes to support New Bethany Ministries’ “Luminaria Night of 2014.” This is the …Read more ›
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