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Originally posted @allaboutestates.ca What does ‘ALOHA’ mean to you? In the caring world- or at least in the Hollywood-type caring world, and in the movie “The Fundamentals of Caring” the acronym stands for: Ask, Listen, Observe, Help,…
Read article “The Fundamentals of Caring”↗Originally published @allaboutestates.ca One of the most distressing types of calls we receive are from families who have been told by the hospital that their loved one will be discharged…..tomorrow. It is bad enough that their loved one…
Read article Your Mom Is Being Discharged…..Tomorrow↗Originally posted @allaboutestates.ca Sounds exciting doesn’t it? Many readers who are under age 75 may already be thinking about ways to spend this money. Money that they have yet to receive. The CIBC study reported that there are about…
Read article ‘Baby boomers under 75 set to inherit $750 B in next decade’- CIBC↗Originally published @allaboutestates.ca I had the pleasure of attending a ‘hot talk on health’ sponsored by the Change Foundation, an independent health policy think tank. The panelists were Helena Herklots CEO from Carers UK and she…
Read article It’s Not If You Will Be A Caregiver, But When*↗Long-distance caregivers of the elderly torn between two locations ANNA SHARRATT, Special to The Globe and Mail Published Thursday, Mar. 24, 2016 7:56AM EDT When it comes to caring for her sister-in-law Bea, who at 62 has had Alzheimer’s…
Read article Long-distance caregivers of the elderly torn between two locations↗