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The Caring Professionals Resource Center contains a range of informative and useful articles, videos, and forms intended to support those receiving care and their loved ones, as well as caregivers, both family and professional.
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Inside the Caregiver Body, Mind, and Heart
Nurturing the Heart Behind the Care: Understanding the Emotional Journey of Caregiving Most caregivers are burned out. So, what else is new? When you try to prolong life, health, mood, and medication for someone really sick or feeble, it takes ongoing energy, creativity, attention, and responsiveness. Everyone is telling you to care for yourself. Put […]
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Change your Space to Age in Place Part 1 w/video
Aging in Place Part 1: Empowering Seniors to Live Independently This video was produced in association with PSS, Coming of Age & Caring Professonals, it first appeared here on the PSS Youtube Channel. Introduction and Speaker Background: Today’s presenter, a veteran community activist, Faigie Horowitz MS, has spent decades in social services, both as an […]
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Taking Out your Disabled or Elderly Loved Ones: Is It Worth It?
Of course it is! We break it down. Getting your disabled or elderly loved one out of the house and into the community is a big job. It must be scheduled when the weather is reasonably good. The timing has to work; it has to be between meals. It has to work around the usual […]
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Leaves are Falling, Autumn is Calling
This is a popular phrase for fall which is not quite upon us yet. Nonetheless, once Labor Day is behind us, we turn forward. It seems that in the summer we try to seize the moment. We want to maximize each day’s pleasure in the balmy weather outdoors. Whether we barbecue, watch a summer sunset […]
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Gift-Giving Made Easy: A Caregiver’s Guide to Helping Grandma
Practical Tips for Streamlining Special Occasions and Making Gift-Giving Enjoyable for Grandma and You You’re the caregiving child. You oversee her health, her care, her paperwork, her medical appointments, and her finances. And therefore, you also take care of her gifts. When she wants to give a granddaughter money for her birthday or buy a […]
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Understanding your Cranky Smart Old Dad
What to do with your beloved Dad? He seems depressed, unhappy, and frustrated. This accomplished professional or entrepreneur who has so many successes to his name is expressing feelings of worthlessness, or worse is not even expressing them. Earned fame, fortune, and security don’t seem to have value anymore for this formerly driven, high energy […]
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What is Medicaid Unwinding?
What is Medicaid Unwinding? And Why Does It Matter? This is a new phrase and it’s important. During Covid, the federal government gave the states a big increase in funding for Medicaid. The deal was contingent on states committing to stop disenrolling people from the program. This applied to all kinds of Medicaid: Medicaid for […]
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Adulting and You
Since when is adulting a term? Is it a verb or a noun? Does it mean what I think it means? The answer to these questions is grounded in social media of about ten years ago. Yes, the young people coined this new word for acting like an adult. At least they were self-aware and […]
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Why Consider Changing Your Space to Age in Place?
No, we are not suggesting that you move. Most seniors want to age in place. A recent AARP study found that 77% of Americans age 45+ want to age in their own home. Only 10% favored an assisted living facility, 2% preferred a nursing home, and 11% were unsure or refused to respond. People consider […]
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Kitchen Remodeling for Safe Aging in Place
Designing Kitchens with Independence in Mind: Essential Modifications for Aging Safely at Home Kitchens are more than just places to prepare and enjoy food. They are often the center of a home, a place where people gather for convivial family time and celebration. Kitchens, on the other hand, are also places to store food, transfer […]
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