If you’re a senior and you’re looking for a great holiday gift for your family or if you’re looking for a great gift to give to an elderly parent or grandparent, then LifeCatching sessions may be the perfect gift idea.
LifeCatching is a outcome-based process that helps to capture, archive and share memories with future generations.
Performed by those who are certified in LifeCatching techniques, the process includes techniques for encouraging stories about past experiences, practicing engaged and active listening, recording stories and key moments in one’s life and providing private online access to those stories by creating a memory vault for the family to enjoy for years to come. Videos of the LifeCatching sessions as well as photos and stories can be posted to your own personal memory vault.
The Sonoma County office of Home Instead Senior Care has already certified five of their trained caregivers to provide LifeCatching services for seniors and are offering it as part of their companionship services. Professional caregivers, especially those trained by Home Instead, make great LifeCatching partners because they are already trained in the art of listening to and caring for seniors.
You can simply buy LifeCatching hours from Home Instead of Sonoma County in the same way you would buy senior home care services. As a sample, a $100 would buy four (4) LifeCatching hours or individual sessions in which the senior would be coached as to how to tell their stories and memories, and video taped so that those videos can be uploaded to their personal memory vault.
LifeCatching is a great gift not only for the senior to purchase for themselves to give to their families for a holiday gift but also for the family memories to give to an elderly loved one to help preserve those memories, especially if the senior is beginning to suffer from dementia-related diseases.
And for those caring for an elderly loved one who may be resistant to in-home care, this is a great way to start the process and to have conversations about home care in order to keep your senior loved one living independently at home for a longer period of time than they might otherwise.
To order, simply call our Home Instead Senior Care office at 707.586.1516 today.
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To whom it may concern.
I am a resident of Lakewood, CO and on the Advisory Commission for an Inclusive community. We are looking at doing a presentation to the City Council with recommendation of doing a “Lakewood Treasures” program as a way to honor and thank our older residents for their unique contributions to our community.” If you have any input that might be useful in your experiences or any knowledge of any other countries or states that have done such a program I would love your input….Thanks and feel free to contact me.
If you do not handle this however could direct me to whom I could get the information from please forward me the contact information.