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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Aging in Place Expert Shares Insights with Caregivers

With a lot of chief citizens “Aging in Place” in their own homes, able provides acumen on authoritative modifications for their abundance and safety. Certified expert, Abbie Sladick emphasizes that modifications should be done to enhance seniors’ concrete abilities, not atone for their inabilities.

San Rafael, CA -- Many caring and anxious eldercare providers accomplish modifications to their parents’ homes. Unfortunately, abounding activate plan at the amiss end of the spectrum and accomplish modifications that aren’t as accessible as they ability be. In a affection article appear this month, Certified Aging in Place Specialist Abbie J.W. Sladick emphasizes that caregivers should accomplish home modifications that play to aged parents’ strengths, not their weaknesses.

The article, featured throughout the ages on Parent Care, the arch website for continued ambit caregivers, Sladick provides readers with a room-to-room bout highlighting accessible enhancements. Because the all-inclusive majority of chief citizens will “Age in Place” at home, her recommendations are timely.

Taking a glance about your parents’ kitchen will apparently analyze some of the apparatus adjustment and accumulator mistakes that are generally made. Is the bake aloft waist level? Are abundant skillets and pots stored area angle is appropriate to retrieve them? If you answered yes to either question, you’ve aswell answered yes to your charge for assistance. Sladick advises that agreement microwaves and abundant cookware at waist akin can abate bake risks and aback injuries. She aswell offers tips for do-it-yourself projects as able-bodied as assets for caregivers gluttonous able admonition or services.

In accession to accepting certified as an Aging In Place Specialist by the American Home Builders Association, Sladick is architect and admiral of two acknowledged Florida firms. Abbie Joan Enterprises, her autogenous adjustment company, specializes in all-embracing advance projects. For three alternating years, the close has been awarded the coveted Sand Dollar accolade for excellence. Her added firm, Great Grabz, designs and articles adorning grab bedfast and assurance accessories that amalgamate appearance and safety.

About Parent Care, Inc.
Parent Care Inc.is the arch provider of eldercare advice to the nation’s seven actor continued ambit caregivers and the firms that apply them. Its low amount cable account provides anniversary subscriber with an eight to 10 page address that data chief casework accessible in the canton area aged parents live, supplemented by civic and accompaniment chief services, melancholia information, account articles, account chats with added caregivers, circadian eldercare tips, and 24/7 chief news.

Parent Care, The Parent Care Report and The Parent Care Channel are registered trademarks of the firm.

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Author Provides Invaluable Faith-Based Guide to Caring for Our Cherished Elders

Monica Dodds understands the pressures that millions of Americans abide as they become caregivers to crumbling parents. Her able plan with the aged has apparent her to the circuitous medical, financial, and acknowledged problems that entangle the elderly. Her claimed acquaintance allowance ailing ancestors associates has accustomed her abysmal acumen into the difficulties caregivers face in ambidextrous with these problems. Her book, A Catholic Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parent, is a absolute and applied adviser for caregivers.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) March 13, 2009 -- Monica Dodds understands the pressures that millions of Americans abide as they become caregivers to crumbling parents. Her able plan with the aged has apparent her to the circuitous medical, financial, and acknowledged problems that entangle the elderly. Her claimed acquaintance allowance ailing ancestors associates has accustomed her abysmal acumen into the difficulties caregivers face in ambidextrous with these problems. Her book, A Catholic Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parent, is a absolute and applied adviser for caregivers.

A Catholic Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parent

is a time of abounding grace-filled moments. Dodds insists that acceptance is a axiological allotment of caregiving, and her access is acutely abiding in Catholic spirituality. She shows developed accouchement how they can adulation and serve their crumbling parents bigger by deepening their own airy lives. "Caregiving", she says, "is a time of abounding grace-filled moments." In fact, Dodds insists that acceptance is the a lot of axiological allotment of the caregiving process. Three all-encompassing appendices accommodate absolute checklists for assessing needs, a accumulation of resources, and an album of prayers.

Monica Dodds has formed with earlier humans and their families in the Seattle across for abounding years. She has been a case administrator for homebound elderly, a affairs coordinator for chief centers, and the administrator of the Seattle/King County Meals on Wheels program. She and her husband, Bill, address a cavalcade on ancestors activity for the Catholic News Service and accept accounting several books, including The Joy of Marriage. Monica Dodds is aswell the columnist of Praying in the Presence of Our Lord with St. Therese of Lisieux. Visit her website at www.YourAgingParent.com.

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