Health and Wellness
You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down, Even with MS – Meet My Best Friend
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. – Charles Swindoll Normally my blog features the latest caregiving information and interviews with top experts or professionals in various fields. This week is different. Today’s blog is very personal for me because it is about my best friend. I have… [Continue Reading]
Celebrity Spotlight
Marg Helgenberger – Collecting Clues on Caregiving
May marks National Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month and at the May 18 Nancy Davis Foundation annual Race to Erase Gala event, Emmy Award-winning actress Marg Helgenberger will serve as a celebrity champion and award presenter to actress Teri Garr who lives with MS. Sherri Snelling spoke to Marg about her recent exit after 12 years… [Continue Reading]
Financial & Technology
Snoopy to the Rescue – How Caregivers Can Use Pet Therapy to Care for Their Loved One
My favorite cartoonist the late Charles Schulz of Peanuts fame wrote that, “Happiness is a warm puppy.” I wonder if he knew that happiness is just the start when it comes to enhancing the lives of older loved ones in nursing homes or assisted living, terminal patients such as those suffering from AIDS, children with… [Continue Reading]
Help! I Need Somebody
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Almost 50 years ago, the Beatles hit Number One on the Billboard charts with the song Help! – a perfect anthem for this week. On April 15-21, we officially commemorate National Volunteer… [Continue Reading]
Soul Food: More than Meal Delivery for Seniors, Caregivers, Volunteers
March is National Nutrition Month, and while it is important for all of us to check on how well we are balancing our diet, it is even more important to know that more than six million Americans over age 60 suffer from malnutrition and hunger according to the Meals on Wheels Association of America (MOWAA). In… [Continue Reading]
Women Face the Facts of an Alzheimer’s Nation
The Alzheimer’s Association released its 2012 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures report today and the underlying message is that as a nation we are facing a growing epidemic and women are more at risk … but there is hope and help. More than 10 million women today are touched by Alzheimer’s and other dementias – in fact,… [Continue Reading]
