Posts Tagged Family Member

  • 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...

  • When a Relative Gets Alzheimer’s, See an Attorney When a Relative Gets Alzheimer’s, See an Attorney

    By Curt Ford Nash Nash Bean & Ford When a loved one gets Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, it can be overwhelming if he or she has not planned ahead and acquired power of attorney documents and an estate plan. However, the reality is that most people do not have these advanced plan...

  • Iowa Department on Aging Searches for Centenarians Iowa Department on Aging Searches for Centenarians

    By Donna K. Harvey Director, Iowa Department on Aging Iowans age 100 and above will be honored at the 2013 Centenarian Honors Celebration at the Science Center of Iowa October 4, 2013. Any Iowan born in 1913, or before and not yet on the Iowa Centenarian Registry, qualifies for this milestone r...

  • Bend of the River Pilots

    Club continues support of Genesis brain injury patients and families By Genesis Health System Pauline Stark has been a family member, waiting hour after hour as a loved one recovers from a traumatic brain injury. “You don't want to leave because you might miss talking with the doctor, o...

  • Family Reflection to Start a New Year Family Reflection to Start a New Year

    By Rondi Doyle Director of Community Relations Child Abuse Council The clock has struck 12 midnight, the ball has dropped, the fireworks are over, and a new year is upon us. Before picking up the resolutions and starting the hustle of a fresh start, it is important to remember our family histo...

  • Going into a Nursing Home Going into a Nursing Home

    By Roger Brannan Administrator Bettendorf Health Care Let’s face it. No one truly wants to move to a nursing home. Our senior citizens prefer to stay at home. And I don’t blame them. Our seniors today are living into their 90s and even 100 today. Unfortunately, our bodies get old, and...

  • Every Five Years Every Five Years

    By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home No one likes to think about what happens when we die; this I know all too well. While many talk about pre-planning – and even acknowledge its value and importance – comparatively few ever actually get it done. Even so, this stark and un...

  • Your Advocacy Connection Your Advocacy Connection

    By Julie Arndt GolderCare Solutions Offering Comprehensive Care and Financial Advocacy Advocacy is an act or process supporting a cause or proposal, according to Webster’s Dictionary. Some people think of political advocates when they think of advocacy. Others think in terms of a patient a...

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