Sandwich Generation can Benefit from Home Health Care Services

Every day I read more and more about how the 55+ generation will be healthier and will live longer than any generation before them. The good health of this group is due in part to the fact that men and women in this group generally have a healthier and more active lifestyle. Golf, tennis, swimming, water aerobics, yoga, Tai Chi, walking, running, weight training and host of other activities help people maintain good health.

If caring for a parent or spouse keeps you from continuing to remain active, a home care service can come into your home, stay with a spouse or parent help with some cleaning, laundry or meal preparation and give you the peace of mind to leave your loved one with a reliable, loving care giver while you take a break and take care of yourself. Some organizations like the Parkinson Foundation even offer some grants to care givers to cover some respite help.

This article was offered by:

Marilyn Christenson
Seniors' Choice at Home
763-546-1599
email: crseniors@usfamily.net

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My story is the same as that of about 70,000,000 other folks with aging parents in our country. The story comes from a common question: our home or the rest home?

My decision was the best of my life. It gave me the opportunity to repay my sweet mom for birthing and raising my two brothers and me.

We moved my mom into our home for the last 5 ½ years of her life and it was a challenge to say the least. There were no books on in-my-home elder care and no organized online databases for the information and products needed for in-my-home elder care.

In spite of extensive formal education and a varied business career, I was not prepared. It took nearly three years to catch up with the learning curve. It was something new most days and nights and it was relentless. But the rewards were profound.

To help the millions coming behind us with aging parents, I resolved to put a package in place that would prepare them and help them through. The results of my efforts are a book and two organized online databases for elder care information and products. Mama Moves In is the book about deciding to proceed, preparing for the “move in”, marshalling the assets, pulling the family into the process, consulting the experts, making the home ready and living through the experience. ResearchPro are the organized online databases.

I’d like to share my experience with you and your audience. What I have done will be of no benefit to anyone if we can’t reach the millions of people who need the elder care package.

Please help.