Archive for Family

  • A New Year, A New Life A New Year, A New Life

    By Curt Ford Nash Nash Bean & Ford Over 100 million Americans plan New Year’s resolutions to improve their lives over the next 12 months. While their goals vary from losing weight to spending more time with their children, most people make resolutions to gain more control over their liv...

  • Have you made your resolutions for the New Year? Have you made your resolutions for the New Year?

    By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Most people, it seems, resolve to do something new or different or better as the calendar flips over to January. And it’s a pretty well-established fact that most resolutions, for one reason or another, aren’t kept throughout the year. ...

  • Strategies for Helping a Parent Strategies for Helping a Parent

    By Dan Adams Lighthouse Homecare I recently came across this article on www.care.com. The headline was ‘Strategies to help a parent who refuses care.’ Your mother resists in-home helpers, insisting you can wait on her. Your frail father won't stop driving. Your aunt denies the need for...

  • Everyone needs an RV in their backyard!!! Everyone needs an RV in their backyard!!!

    By Mary Schricker If anyone would have told me a few years ago that I would be promoting the positive attributes of recreational vehicles, I would not have believed them, but circumstances have led me down an interesting path this past year and a half. My perception of RV’ing, or camping as I...

  • Education is the Key Education is the Key

    By Bob Morrison Development Director of Ridgecrest Village Have you given much thought to your future care needs, or are you invincible, like so many of us feel? Have you ever had an opportunity to talk with someone 90-plus years old, and they refer to people as “those old people?” It is s...

  • Fulfilling Promises Fulfilling Promises

    By Dan Adams Lighthouse Homecare Every once in a while, even the best caregiver has a personal issue and can’t make it to work. Most of the time, we can fill the shift quickly, and all is well that ends well. Last week, however, it wasn’t going as planned when as we tried without quick suc...

  • Your Advocacy Connection - What does GolderCare Solutions do? – Part 5 Your Advocacy Connection – What does GolderCare Solutions do? – Part 5

    Your Advocacy Connection Offering Comprehensive Care and Financial Advocacy GolderCare Solutions provides long-term care solutions by offering classic and comprehensive care coordination and advocacy. Comprehensive care coordination and advocacy services helps to provide solutions to our clie...

  • Love Lights a Candle Love Lights a Candle

    By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Linda often has a fragrant candle burning in our home. Wispy spring and summery scents enjoyed for the past several months have been recently replaced by the warm and inviting scents of autumn. As the snow falls to stay, the aromas of everg...