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National Women’s Checkup Day, May 14

Published on May 9, 2012 By Bob Finnie

An important part of National Women’s Health Week is the day set aside to encourage checkups. Monday, May 14 is that day! This day is a great reminder to schedule a checkup, get a checkup and promote regular checkups. Take the pledge for women’s health. Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the top three leading causes [...]

Take Care Of Mom

Published on April 23, 2012 By Bob Finnie

Senior Mother’s Day Gifts at www.PersonCare.net to help Mom enjoy life and stay independent.

National Physical Therapy Month

Published on October 23, 2011 By Bob Finnie

National Physical Therapy Month is October. Get help from a physical therapist for daily activites and more.

Remember Grandparents

Published on September 9, 2011 By Bob Finnie

Remember Grandparents on September 11 and everyday. Find out how they are doing. Don’t be afraid to ask. Even ask if they have completed an Advance Health Care Directive. That will help them, your parents and yourself.

Read A Bittersweet Season

Published on July 4, 2011 By Bob Finnie

Family caregivers need to read A Bittersweet Season Caring for Our Aging Parents – and Ourselves by Jane Gross. The journalist who started The New York Times healthcare blog, The New Old Age, Jane takes the reader through the caregiving for her mother with her brother and every other resource she came across. Her mother had moved from New [...]

Holiday Time with Seniors = Look, Listen, and Learn

Published on November 23, 2010 By Bob Finnie

The holidays are a great time with parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and friends.  Be sure to make the most of this time with them.  Making the most includes using the time to look, listen, and learn regarding the aging of the people you care about. Look at them.  Are there any obvious physical changes?  Are they able [...]

Family Caregivers Appreciation

Published on November 10, 2010 By Bob Finnie

The Thanksgiving month is a wonderful time to show appreciation for family caregivers.  The time and effort put in caregiving by family members is difficult to put a monetary value on, but a recent study by the National Alliance for Caregiving and the AARP put a price tag on family caregiving at $257 billion in the [...]

Aging and Breast Cancer Awareness

Published on October 26, 2010 By Bob Finnie

The greatest risk factors for breast cancer are being female and getting older. Read positive news about the golfer’s wife who has battled breast cancer twice.