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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.

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 [...]

Celebrate Social Work Month

Published on March 8, 2011 By Bob Finnie

March is Celebrate Social Work Month. Appreciate the work social workers do for older adults and the family caregiver.

Falls Prevention Awareness Day

Published on September 23, 2010 By Bob Finnie

The third annual Falls Prevention Awareness Day on September 23 is a great reminder for the older adults in your life.  Make sure a thorough review of their place of living is performed on the bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen.  See an excellent room to room checklist by the American Physical Therapy Association.  Fear of falling vs being more [...]

Medical Alert Systems – TWO Types

Published on July 12, 2010 By Bob Finnie

Here is a replay of a comment made to the LinkedIn group, The Elder Care Network, in a discussion on the merits of the two types of medical alert systems. And I will do it using the simplest of terms. Both types (purchase and monthly fee) of medical alert systems (“help I’ve fallen”) have a valuable role to play. [...]

Independence

Published on July 5, 2010 By Bob Finnie

The long holiday weekend celebrating the Fourth of July is recognition of the efforts of our founding fathers 234 years ago.  They took steps into a giant unknown when declaring independence. Aging grandparents and parents have a similar challenge, but on a personal level. After years of living their lives as they wanted to,  the effects of age [...]