Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Fast Company's Advice on How To Make 2012 Your Best Year Yet
BY Erin Schulte
Fast Company wants you to have a banner year in 2012. As our gift to you, we present our very best advice and tips on how to work smarter, manage your career, and lead a more meaningful life.
Work Smarter, Create Stars, Live Fully and Mean It.
Read more
Fast Company wants you to have a banner year in 2012. As our gift to you, we present our very best advice and tips on how to work smarter, manage your career, and lead a more meaningful life.
Work Smarter, Create Stars, Live Fully and Mean It.
Read more
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
A Nursing Home Shrinks Until It Feels Like A Home
www.nytimes.com
Toni Davis spent much of her childhood roaming the corridors of a nursing home in West Orange, N.J., where her mother was the director. Even now she recalls the pleas of the residents there: “ ‘Please help me, please take me home with you,’ they’d beg,” Ms. Davis said. “I remember asking my mom, ‘Why can’t we take them home for dinner for just one night?’"
Toni Davis spent much of her childhood roaming the corridors of a nursing home in West Orange, N.J., where her mother was the director. Even now she recalls the pleas of the residents there: “ ‘Please help me, please take me home with you,’ they’d beg,” Ms. Davis said. “I remember asking my mom, ‘Why can’t we take them home for dinner for just one night?’"
Following in her mother’s footsteps, Ms. Davis is now director of Green Hill Retirement Community, a nursing home and assisted living facility, and she is determined to make it into a place where residents feel little reason to leave. She has added fish tanks and bird cages, hung pictures on the walls carpeted the corridors, and brought in dogs for pet therapy.
Still, the nursing home looks like... a nursing home. “No matter what you do, you can’t get that homelike feeling in an institution because it’s too big,” she said.
Read more....Monday, October 24, 2011
PRIMETIME EXPO 2011
We encourage you to attend Primetime Expo, a new educational/resource fair serving Baby Boomers, their parents, senior adults and families in our area. It takes place this Sunday, October 30, at the Jewish Community Center Staenberg Family Complex, 2 Millstone Campus. Dr. in Creve Coeur. Hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. In addition to more than 50 exhibitors, the expo features eight seminars on topics such as financial planning, health/wellness, services for senior adults, Social Security, elder law, etc. Admission is free. Complimentary refreshments available. For complete information open the attachment or visit www.stljewishlight.com/primetime.
Come visit us at the Senior Advisory Alliance Booth this Sunday.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Help Offered for Tornado Victims Extended to Joplin Area
Due to the slow process of cleaning up and rebuilding, Myra L. Katz & Associates, Inc. is extending its offer to businesses damaged or destroyed by the St. Louis and Joplin tornadoes and are challenging other businesses to follow suit.
We are providing you with an opportunity to put your best foot forward while rebuilding. A $500 credit will be applied towards the cost of interior design services, helping to jump start your business. Let us assist you with the selection of interior finishes, furniture, upholstery and artwork. We realize that this will not make-up for the devastation and losses you've suffered, but we would like to help you make the best of a bad situation. It could finally be your opportunity to tie your business interior to your brand. Whether corporate, financial, healthcare, senior living, hospitality or retail, we have the experience and capabilities to create an interior that will improve your bottom line.
If this offer pertains to someone you know who will benefit from our services, please pass this information along.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
What Should a Caregiver Who Is Diagnosed with Dementia Do?
(Source: Alzheimer's Daily News and Agingcare.com)
If you are a caregiver of someone with dementia and you feel that you, too, are showing signs of the disease, what do you do? This isn't as uncommon as you may think, since at least three circumstances that increase one's risk for Alzheimer's are at play here.
The first is that many caregivers take care of spouses, and likely fall into the same age group. Since age is a big risk factor for dementia, your risk has been increasing over time as you've cared for your mate.
The second factor is genetics. If there is a history of early on-set Alzheimer's in your family, and you are caring for that parent, there is a chance that you, too, carry that gene.
The third factor is stress. While stress can cause dementia-like symptoms without being dementia, studies show that stress hormones can actually contribute to the disease.
If you are diagnosed with dementia, it's important to take these steps while you can still think clearly:
If you are a caregiver of someone with dementia and you feel that you, too, are showing signs of the disease, what do you do? This isn't as uncommon as you may think, since at least three circumstances that increase one's risk for Alzheimer's are at play here.
The first is that many caregivers take care of spouses, and likely fall into the same age group. Since age is a big risk factor for dementia, your risk has been increasing over time as you've cared for your mate.
The second factor is genetics. If there is a history of early on-set Alzheimer's in your family, and you are caring for that parent, there is a chance that you, too, carry that gene.
The third factor is stress. While stress can cause dementia-like symptoms without being dementia, studies show that stress hormones can actually contribute to the disease.
If you are diagnosed with dementia, it's important to take these steps while you can still think clearly:
- Make sure that adult children or other trusted parties have the ability to help you.
- Begin making lists and notes. These should be for your own use and those who may be caring for you and the other person with dementia.
- Contact your local Alzheimer's organization.
- Prepare to hire in-home help.
- Work with the person you have chosen to be your Power of Attorney for finances.
- With family members, tour assisted living facilities with memory units.
- Beware of denial.
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