Posts Tagged Family And Friends

  • Your Advocacy Connection – Having a Special Needs Family Member

    By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Many families have a family member with special needs. In our family, it is a sister with developmental challenges. In one of our church families, it is a person severely injured in a car accident as a teen. One classmate had a stroke very young, leav...

  • Your Advocacy Connection: The Holidays Your Advocacy Connection: The Holidays

    By Julie Arndt GolderCare Solutions The Holiday Season is upon us. The stores are full of Christmas items, and toys are ready to be purchased. Excitement is in the air. It is truly a joyous season that gives us an opportunity to be openly thankful for our blessings and to give to those who are ...

  • PUBLISHER’S CORNER - Optimism: Should We Complain or Be Grateful? PUBLISHER’S CORNER – Optimism: Should We Complain or Be Grateful?

    By Eloise Graham Next month is a big election. According to the polls, one half of the country will be happy about the outcome, and the other half will not. But we, as individuals and as a country, must keep moving forward. We can be grateful that we are allowed to go to the polls to plac...

  • The Empty Chair... and Hearing Loss The Empty Chair… and Hearing Loss

    By Dr. Molly Parker Audiologist Parker Audiology, PC Much has been made of the Empty Chair Speech by Clint Eastwood recently. People with hearing loss sometimes feel like an empty chair…they are there but not really there. We all have days where we feel like circumstances drive us, and we no...

  • Annual Caregiver Conference

    By Peggy Dykes Community Relations Director Generations Area Agency on Aging Family Caregivers are invited to attend the 2nd Annual Quad-City Caregiver Conference to be held Saturday, April 28 from 8 a.m. to Noon at the Waterfront Convention Center, in Bettendorf. This conference is for pe...

  • Your Advocacy Connection - Offering Comprehensive Care and Financial Advocacy Your Advocacy Connection – Offering Comprehensive Care and Financial Advocacy

    By Diana Spranger, R.N. Administrator Bettendorf Health Care In the past six months, my role in the long-term care setting has changed dramatically. For nearly 30 years, I worked in the health- care industry as an Administrator, and then I retired. I now work part-time and find myself as a vis...

  • Your Advocacy Connection - What does GolderCare Solutions do? – Part 6 Your Advocacy Connection – What does GolderCare Solutions do? – Part 6

    Your Advocacy Connection Offering Comprehensive Care and Financial Advocacy Our mission at GolderCare Solutions is to provide solutions for your long-term care problems. We offer classic and comprehensive care coordination and advocacy. Our comprehensive care coordination and advocacy service...

  • Looking to the Future Looking to the Future

    By Diana Spranger, R.N. Administrator Bettendorf Health Care As I set to write this article, I do it with mixed emotions. For the better part of two years now, I have been working with the great people who work so hard to publish this magazine every month. It has been a wonderful experience fo...

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