The Free Monthly Ezine for Health and Elder Care Professionals

• Great Articles to Pass on to Your Clients
  
• Karen Myhre, First California Real Estate Agent - Certified Senior Approved
  
• Low Cost Efficient Marketing Tools
  
• Add These Great Books to Your Library!
  
• OH, IL, NC Businesses - Will Your Clients Recommend You?
  
• Free Service to Provide for Your Clients
  
• Words of Wisdom - OSU Michigan Game
  
• What's New? and Coming Soon!
  
• Welcome! New Senior-Preneur, Bruce Nemovitz!
• Merry Christmas!

Great Articles to Pass on to Your Clients

Critical Medicare Update: Deadline - December 8th For Drug Plan Decision
28 Reasons Why You Can't Take Care of Your Parents
Coping with Travel, Holidays and other Special Occasions
Paris Hotels - How to reduce your risk of selecting the wrong hotel
It’s Hard To Leave a Best Friend ... Your Home!
Putting Your Foot Down, With Compassion

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Karen Myhre, First California Real Estate Agent - Certified Senior Approved

If you're looking to buy or sell a home in San Mateo county and surrounding areas, Karen Myhre goes to work to show you your options and make the process go smoothly. With a highly personalized approach to her clients' unique needs and a commitment to excellent service, people have come to depend on Karen for all their real estate needs. Continue Reading

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Low Cost Efficient Marketing Tools

Email Marketing - Ezines - Keeping Your Name in Front of the Customer
Constant Contact, the leading email marketing service for small businesses, provides a full email marketing program to help grow your business. Ongoing email communications are a great way to keep in touch with your new and existing customers. Keep your business in front of your prospects and customers with informative newsletters, special promotions, event invitations and more.

With Constant Contact it's easy, quick and very affordable. In fact, the Senior Approved Name Branded version is yours to try for FREE for SIXTY days!

Promote Your Business While Providing a Community Service
Whether you are one caring individual or a group such as; a neighborhood watch, a religious organization, chamber of commerce, a non-profit organization (and so on) you can start your own Coalition for Senior Safety program. In fact, you could launch a business as an 'Event Planner' or Professional Fund Raiser, create an income for yourself and at the same time, make a positive impact within your local community. (Cost - $14.95)

Become a Parent Care Specialist
The Parent Care University was created to train professionals from various disciplines such as accounting, financial services, law, social work, medicine, and nursing in both the structure and technology of the coming care environment. Attendees upon successfully completing the training will be awarded the designation of Parent Care Specialist.

Provide Additional Services to Your Clients Without The Expense of Delivering the Service
Did you know that you can offer services directly to your seniors and their family caregivers that you do not have to deliver yourself? Yes you can. You can 'name brand' the following two resources with your company name and information, provide the web address and or toll free number and offer these services that 'appear' to be yours! The best part - you don't have to create, maintain or serve it!

Caregiver's Resource Inc. offers a special program in which you can 'name brand' a pre-recorded 24 hour Help Line!

The Life-Ledger could be yours - to offer to your clients! Or call John Boden, the owner directly at (561) 265-0016.

Learn What Nearly 10,000 Family Members and Seniors Want, Need, and Expect from a Business Prior to Contracting
You are welcome to read the compiled narrative of the focus group study we conducted prior to launching Senior Approved Services. Our entire company has been created based on what we learned from speaking with seniors and their family members across the United States. The ebook formatted report is Free!

Low Cost Method to Create Viral Marketing
Easy method to encourage your clients and/or your web visitors to quickly recommend your business to a friend! Tell A Friend The Easy and Powerful Tell A Friend Service - Add Viral Marketing To Your Website in Five Minutes!

Becoming a Certified Senior Approved Service
Did you know that for 1/3 less than any other survey company and for about the cost of one Health Fair table rental, your company could go through the independent survey process issued by Senior Approved Services? If your survey results reach 90% or higher, you are then certified as a Senior Approved Service for a period of two years.

Once you are part of our exclusive network of verified quality services, you will reach through us; seniors, baby-boomers (adult children of the elderly), social workers, discharge planners, EAP groups, and more!

In fact, take a look at who's recommending and endorsing Certified Senior Approved Services to their valued clients! See Who Recommends Senior Approved Services?

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Add These Great Books to Your Library!

Some families not only need facts to help settle the confusion they find within this industry, some need support and a little encouragement along the way. It's difficult not to respond to these needs, however, with budgets the way they are nowadays, finding the time to give to these families can be burdensome. Offering a quality book to this person not only shows that you understand and care, but it also allows the senior or family member the opportunity to take self-responsibility.

Start a lending library at your place of business, or if you have one now, you may want to add to it from time to time to keep it fresh.

The following books are highly recommended by Senior Approved Services. Each covers topics that are sure to be of great interest and long-lasting help for seniors, their family members. And even the members of your staff will find relavant information that will help them express empathy and sincere concern for your clients.

'The Parent Care Conversation ... 6 Strategies for Dealing with the Emotional and Financial Challenges of Aging Parents' written by Dan Taylor.

' Minding Our Elders ... Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories' written by Carol Bradley Bursack

‘Rosie John Doesn’t Live Here Any More…’ One Family’s Journey In Eldercare’ written by Tom Begert Clark

'Coming of Age with Aging Parents: The Bungles, Battles, and Blessings' written by Gail Goeller

'Moving in the Right Direction, A Senior's Guide for Moving and Downsizing' written by Bruce Nemovitz

TRUCE ! Using Elder Mediation to Resolve Conflict among Families, Seniors, and Organizations' written by Patricia Bertschler, PCC and Laurette Cocklin, Ed.D, PCC

' Do It Now! An Organizing Handbook for Families and Senior Citizens' written by Jean F. Wales

The Caregiver's Resource Kit written by John L. Webb, Jr.

Complete Line of Books for the family caregiver and the professional caregiver written by Kathy Kilpatrick Includes helpful books on how to have quality visits, memory enhancement exercises, and many more.

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OH, IL, NC Businesses - Will Your Clients Recommend You?

Thanks to our sponsors in Illinois, North Carolina, and Ohio, we have launched our micro marketing phase reaching out to seniors and family caregivers (and key referral sources) within these three states.

As a result, of course, we're receiving additional inquiry calls directly from these three states. We need more businesses in our network to accommodate these calls!!! So, in addition to making headway connecting with businesses, we're asking the consumer to help us out.

Not only will your customers receive a very nice thank you for recommending your service to us - we will reward you! If your business is voted on by a current or past client of yours, we will extend to you a substantial discount on our survey fee.

Send your Illinois clients to Vote for Your Business, your N. Carolina clients to Vote for Your Business and your Ohio clients to Vote for Your Business

Don't want to wait to see if your business is recommended? See Request Certification

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Free Service to Provide for Your Clients

CareCentral hosts this program on their servers. You simply need to copy and paste a code that we will send to you and you can add this added value to your web site. See CareCentral for an overview of this valuable service.

Shoot Marty (our webmaster) a note that you'd like to include this service for your web visitors and he'll send you the code. (webmaster@seniorsapprove.com)

Your clients will love this service and will be grateful that you introduced it to them. And - your site will then be linked to CareCentral - which receives, on average, 30 Million visits per month! If you understand the value of quality links on the Internet, then this should excite you enormously!!!

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Thank you for your submissions to Words of Wisdom! Check out the latest submissions -

This little gem about the OSU Michigan Game in 2006 is a submission from K.S. residing in Alliance Ohio. Thanks!

A guy named Bob received a free ticket to the OSU - Michigan game from his company. Unfortunately, when he arrived at the stadium, he realized the seat was in the last row in the corner of the stadium way back in the South Stands-- he was closer to the Goodyear blimp than to the field.

About halfway through the first quarter, he noticed an empty seat 10 rows off the field, right on the 50 yard line. He decided to take a chance and made his way down to the empty seat. As he sat down, he asked the gentleman sitting next to him, "Excuse me, is anyone sitting here?"

The man said "No."

Now, very excited to have such a great seat for the game, Bob said, "That's incredible! Who in their right mind would have a seat like this at the OSU / Michigan game and not use it?" The man replied, "Well, actually, the seat belongs to me. I was supposed to come with my wife, but she passed away. This is the first Ohio State game we haven't been to together since we got married in 1967."

"Well, that's really sad," said Bob. "But you couldn't find a friend or relative to come with you?"

The man replied, "No. They're all at the funeral."

GO BUCKS!!!

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What's New? and Coming Soon!

Certified Senior Approved Services are going to benefit greatly from this exposure!

We are putting the final details together and you will be notified in ample time to participate. It will be held in Independence at the Day's Inn, thanks to the generosity of David Patel, owner of Alpine Home Care Services and one of our Ohio Sponsors

If you are a business that has been considering our offer, now is the time! Only Certified Senior Approved Services, our collaborative partners, our sponsors, and our Senior-Preneurs will be invited.

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Greetings from Barbara Mascio, founder of Senior Approved Services

The month of December is the traditional time of the year where most folks, around the world, are planning special days of celebration with their loved ones. Whether you celebrate the Christain holiday of Christmas, the Jewish holiday of Chanukah, the African holiday of Kwanzaa, Eid'ul-Adha the Muslim's celebration, the Japanese holiday of Omisoka, (and I'm quite certain there are many more) the underlying theme is the same.

All celebrate the act of giving. Our children may only understand the opposite, that of receiving, but for most of us, it is the giving that speaks to our hearts. It is the acknowlegement of the intention behind the gift that speaks to our spirit, both for the giver and the receiver.

What we give, in my opinion, is not the point. It's how and why we give that counts. When you freely give without concern of recognition or of reciprocation, you begin to feel the true holiday spirit.

Let's all try to keep that joyful spirit alive beyond the holiday season this year. We are living during very trying and stressful times - the entire human family shares these challenges. Acknowledge this and look for an opportunity to lighten another person's load. In doing so, you give yourself the greatest of all gifts.

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