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Not To Be Forgotten NTBF Adopt a Duck, Help a Senior, elderly loved one, grants wishes, helps with low income needs of elderly

3/13/09 1:25pm by comfortkeeper
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The Not-To-Be Forgotten Foundation is a non-profit organization located in southeastern PA that helps low income seniors.  One of their latest campaigns was Keeping Our Seniors Warm, which provided heating oil for seniors who could not afford to pay for it.  A great organization, they have a fundraiser coming up soon called the PA Duck Derby.  Read more >

Seniors who won’t change clothes

2/21/09 9:32am by comfortkeeper
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Do you have a senior that won’t change his or her clothes? If so, you are not alone. Normally these behaviors occur in people who start to have memory impairment or some nutritional deficiencies that are affecting the brain the the thinking.  Read more >

Long distance caregiving, the struggles, worries and concerns for your elderly loved one

2/21/09 9:30am by comfortkeeper
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Any caregiver that is more than an hour from their elderly loved one could be considered a long distance caregiver. The term long distance was applied many years ago to our phone system and was used for calls that were considered out of the area. It also implied that if you were making a long distance call, you could not quickly get to the person you were calling. Nowadays, a long distance caregiver is in the same situation, the caregiver cannot quickly get to the elderly person they are helping.  Read more >

Co-dependency, guilt, shame, loss and other emotions that erupt when taking care of an elderly loved one

2/21/09 9:29am by comfortkeeper
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The process of taking care of an elderly loved one usually starts out slow like any relationship. Even if its your mother and you have a relationship the beginning of the caretaking process is a new chapter in your lives that you are starting that you have not experienced before.  Read more >

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