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Alzheimer’s Wine Country Memory Walk 2011!

by Julie Ann Anderson on October 28, 2011

Alzheimer’s Wine Country Memory Walk 2011!. Hey Check out our video from this years 2011 Walk to End Alzheimer’s! Did you walk? IF so which walk did you do?  

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Table Talk: How to Get Mealtime Conversations Going!

by Julie Ann Anderson on July 29, 2011

Table Talk: How to Get Mealtime Conversations Going The shopping is done, and the meal is ready and on the table. Your work is complete, right? And now comes the fun part. You sit down to dine with an older loved one. But what is there to talk about? A senior’s world may have shrunk [...]

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I don’t have to tell you that Alzheimer’s is a worldwide epidemic.  Currently, five million people in the U.S. have this disease, and there are more than 35 million globally.  By 2030, those numbers will double, and by 2050, they’ll more than triple.  Last year the worldwide cost of Alzheimer’s was more than $600 billion [...]

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Whether accompanying your loved one to a doctor’s appointment or in response to a medical crisis, it’s critical to have your loved one’s medical information easily and quickly accessible. Home Instead Senior Care network worked with Humana Points of Caregiving® to create the Caring for Your Parents: Senior Emergency KitSM, an information management tool and [...]

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This past Monday June 20th,2011 the Early show on CBS cited Home Instead Senior Care research and featured clients discussing how they were unprepared to care for aging parents. Do you think you are prepared for your aging parents? If you missed the show, watch it now at :http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/20/earlyshow/main20072534.shtml The morning news program’s producer decided [...]

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Have you met Sheri yet?

by Julie Ann Anderson on May 19, 2011

  Do you know Sheri? Have you met her before at one of our CAREGiver meetings perhaps here in Rohnert Park? Maybe you worked with the  same client before  either in Santa Rosa, Sebastopol or Petaluma with Sheri? Sheri began caring for the elderly in the 80’s as a CNA in skilled nursing facilities while [...]

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  Women attending an annual conference for women business professionals in Omaha listed Lori Hogan among their most-admired female leaders in the community.   More than 1,800 women attended the ICAN 2011 Women’s Leadership Conference on April 7th at the Qwest Center Omaha. (ICAN stands for Institute for Career Advancement Needs.) Lori was one of [...]

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Home Instead CAREGivers make a difference!

by Julie Ann Anderson on April 11, 2011

  The Starfish Story  Adapted from the Starfish Thrower by Lowern Eisley   Once upon a time there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing.  He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.   One day, as he was walking along [...]

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Home Instead Senior Care and Denny Corcoran – a real winning team! Home Instead Senior Care, Ireland’s trusted source of home care for seniors, has won the Irish Franchise of the Year Award in this year’s prestigious Irish Franchise Association Awards. It was a cause for a double celebration as Denny Corcoran, a Home Instead [...]

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Home Instead Regional CAREGiver of the year!

by Julie Ann Anderson on March 22, 2011

Meet the Pacific Region CAREGiver of the Year We would like to introduce  Pacific Regional CAREGivers of the Year for 2010. The 8  regional winners are eligible to be honored as the 2011 Mary Steibel CAREGiver of the Year, an award that will be presented at this year’s International Convention in Omaha this coming April. [...]

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