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How Daily Activities Affect the Holistic Health of Seniors
Routine keeps a person motivated and active. Your daily activities change and evolve as you go through life, moving from the structured schedule of school to the predictable rhythm of…
Read MoreFeeling Good When It’s Your Job To Care: Tips For Caregivers
Taking care of someone is a big job that often requires quite a bit of physical strength and emotional reserve. It can be difficult to manage your own life around…
Read MoreAre You Enabling a Loved One?
We welcome back guest writer Trevor McDonald to The Purple Jacket It’s never easy to watch someone you love struggle. Naturally, you want to do everything in your power to…
Read MoreBe Part of the Solution: Become a Senior Home Safety Specialist!
Approximately one-third of adults age 65 years or older fall in their home each year, resulting in injury, long-term disability and and premature loss of independence. By the year 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates the cost related to these kinds of injuries to be nearly $60 Billion annually. Be Part of the Solution: Become a Senior Home Safety Specialist!
Read MoreBe Part of the Solution: Become a Senior Home Safety Specialist!
Approximately one-third of adults age 65 years or older fall in their home each year, resulting in injury, long-term disability and and premature loss of independence. By the year 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates the cost related to these kinds of injuries to be nearly $60 Billion annually. Be Part of the Solution: Become a Senior Home Safety Specialist!
Read MoreCaregivers As Servant Leaders
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way ~ John C. Maxwell Just recently I have come across a new meaning for family…
Read MoreCaregivers As Servant Leaders
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way ~ John C. Maxwell Just recently I have come across a new meaning for family…
Read More5 Tips for Talking With a Person Who Has Alzheimer’s
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Today we welcome award winning author Marie Marley to The Purple Jacket. Yesterday afternoon I walked into Mary’s…
Read MoreLove In The Land Of Dementia
With Deborah Shouse, there is always love in the land of dementia!
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