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January 2007 Ezine for Health & Elder Care Professionals
January 04, 2007

The Free Monthly Ezine for Health and Elder Care Professionals


Attention Seniors and Family Caregivers - See the Free Ezine for Seniors and Family Caregivers Great articles - please feel free to review the featured published articles - great information for your senior clients and their family caregivers!


Updates

Happy New Years! Or should I say, Happy First Week of the New Year? As you know we normally send our ezines out as close to the first of the month as possible. We promise between the 1st and the 5th and I'm glad that we allow an extra few days, especially this month.

In fact, if you happen to subscribe to both of our ezines you are going to see that this month, we are using the same articles for each. Normally, we try to offer business-related news for health and elder care professionals within this ezine and then articles of interest for seniors and family caregivers in the other. Due to time limitations this month, both ezines are the same.

Senior Approved Services is growing quickly and our inquiry calls and email requests from seniors and family caregivers keep us very busy. I cannot emphasize enough how vitally important it is for the consumer to know they can call here to verify the history of quality care of a business prior to contracting with them.

As an example, just this last two weeks; We've received 17 inquiries from potential clients that inquired about Rescue Alert, 13 for The Scooter Store 12 for Great Lakes Medical Supply, 5 for SARAH Adult Day in Strongsville OH, and 18 for Advanced Laser Solutions in Oh. There's more - including inquiries about in home care, handyman services, financial advice, legal advice, assisted living facilities, adult group homes and so forth.

With HealthCentral (be sure to read their press release) now recommending and endorsing Certified Senior Approved Services to their 30 million (per month) web visitors - we are expecting a huge increase of calls. This is great news for current Certified Senior Approved Services.

If your business truly conducts its daily practices with a higher code of ethics and you meet our basic initial requirements - and - you want to join our mission to advocate for the right of all seniors to receive excellent care - we would appreciate your application. Clearly - we do not have nearly enough businesses in our exclusive network to accommodate the requests we're currently receiving.

Minding our Elders

I also want to point your attention to one of our valued senior advocates. Carol Bradley Bursack, journalist, and the author of Minding our Elders has just launched her first ezine issue. It's excellent, as everything Carol does is. She is an informed senior advocate and an engaging writer. Please consider adding her ezine to your arsenal of information. You can sign up from Minding Our Elders Blog

Fund Raising Event - this upcoming Friday

For those of you in Ohio - Did you know that the Oreck Retail Stores have a program in place that allows you to raise money for your organization - profit and non-profits alike? For details - call the N. Olmsted location and ask to speak with Richard. 440-801-1067

Join us as we help raise money for the Ohio Clown College! Visit any of the Oreck Retail stores within the greater Cleveland area on Friday January the 5th. Make a purchase of any amount and The Ohio Clown College will benefit with a 15% donation!

Stop in at the N. Olmsted location (corner of Great Northern Blvd and Lorain) and meet Jamdealie D. Light! Kids of all ages welcome! Get your picture taken with her free of charge!

Would you like to know more about the school? See Ohio Clown College

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HealthCentral and Senior Approved Services Collaborate

Both Senior Approved Services and The HealthCentral Network have a focus on aging and caregiving issues as seen from the consumer perspective, with many complementary resources. Through its unique consumer-generated surveys, Senior Approved Services fulfills its mission to help seniors and their families find safe, reliable services. Its online directory of services includes consumer-approved providers of assisted living, nursing homes, medical equipment, legal and mediation services and other businesses with a focus on elder care. Continue Reading
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First Geriatric Consultant in Ohio Receives Senior Approved Certification

 Kathryn Kilpatrick, founder and president of Communication Connection, received her Master’s Degree in Speech and Language Pathology in 1968 from the University of Massachusetts. She has worked in a variety of settings, primarily in Ohio, including hospitals, rehabilitation centers, home health care agencies and she has her own private practice. Continue Reading
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Wimberly & Associates Awarded Senior Approved Certification

 Wimberly & Associates is the first financial and estate planning service to be awarded the Senior Approved Certification in the state of Mississippi. This distinction clearly separates Andy Wimberly and his staff from other financial planners in MS. Only those that achieve a 90% (or higher) customer satisfaction rating receive Certification and Wimberly & Associates far surpassed this requirement. Continue Reading
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In Ohio - Stress Management 101 - RSVP by Jan 29th!

Please pass this dated material on to your staff, your senior clients and their adult children in Ohio. Certified Senior Approved Services, Collaborative Senior Advocate Partners, and Senior-Preneurs - you need to contact our home office as soon as possible if you plan to host a table (no charge), plan to offer a door prize or a grand prize, and plan to include your company information within the Community Resource Book that each attendee will receive. Please send a note requesting additional information to Marty Talbot Senior Approved webmaster.

To review the schedule of events - see Stress Management 101

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2007 New Year's Resolutions Quit Smoking, Lose Weight, Get Organized

 new years resolutions 2007 Dear God, (Goddess, Mother/Father, Creator, Mighty Universe (you decide)

So far today I have done all right.
I have not gossiped.
I have not lost my temper.
I have not been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish, proud or overindulgent.
I have kept my New Year's resolutions to lose weight (quit smoking, become organized, fill in the blank)
I am a healthy, calm, joyful, forgiving, prosperous woman (or man)
I am very thankful for my success today.

But in a few minutes, God, I am going to get out of bed ...

Helpful hints on how to make a resolution and then actually keep it! Did you know that 75% of all resolutions have already been given up by the first week? If you want to lose weight, stop smoking, or get organized (the top 3 resolutions in the US) then maybe this article along with key resources will help. Good luck! Continue Reading

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Part 2 - 28 Reasons Why You Can't Take Care of Your Parents

 Dan Taylor, author of The Parent Care Conversation and primary sponsor of North Carolina Senior Approved Services continues to share excerpts from his national best seller.

You'll love the straight-forward, no nonsense approach that Dan takes. Responding to 'Reason number 8' Dan begins with, 'At the risk of simultaneously displaying my relationship or emotional I.Q. skill deficits and offending at least half the free world’s psychiatric community, I would just tell you to do one thing: Get past it. Build a bridge. Get over it If it’s easy, do it easy. If it’s hard, do it hard. Just get it done. Get out of the ‘you never loved me', 'I didn’t get a wagon', 'You liked Suzy better' psychobabble swamp. Realize that some things can be fixed. Some can’t. Continue Reading

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How to Ideas - Supporting Family Caregivers

 Kathy Kilpatrick generously shares expert advice for seniors, adult children involved on some level of their loved one's lives, as well as key strategies for health and elder care professionals. A national speaker and author of several books, and now, a Certified Senior Approved Service. Her series on Memory Fitness is a must for all those involved in the field of aging. Continue Reading
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True Story about a Nursing Home Experience

 If this article doesn't drive home the absolute need for a service like Senior Approved Services, then I don't know what will. This is a typical scenario and this happened to a family with health professionals in the industry. Again, if you would like to help families by including your excellent service - allowing us to independently verify your history of quality care, please apply for certification. We offer the only tool available to the public that literally shines the light on excellence - while helping seniors avoid less than desirable services.

Continue Reading Sharon's account of what happened to her father

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Paris

 Though the French rating system is based on objective, measurable criteria, this does not mean travellers' expectations will be fulfilled automatically.

First, there are keen differences in perception between populations. One of the most common example of such a problem relates to room and bed sizes. American travellers are used to larger rooms and beds than the average room and bed sizes offered by Paris hotels. This 'size gap' originates in history and genetics: space is scarcer in Paris than in Boston or Chicago, and French people tend to have smaller bodies than American people. Continue Reading

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Calendar of Events - Article Submissions - Other Resources

To review upcoming events -or- to post yours go to Calendar

To submit articles to our ezines for possible publication - go to Submission Guidelines

To offer a FREE Caregiver tool to your clients - Free Family Caregiver Web Site send a note to our webmaster and he will provide you with the link to place on your web site. A simple copy and paste - the site is not taking up your bandwidth.

To start your own online ezine (Carol Bradley-Bursack is using this) see Constant Contact

For other health and elder care resources to help your business grow - Health Care Business Resources

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