Presbyterian Senior Living : Blog
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Caregiver Support | Reflections & Leadership
Every spring we hold recognition events for Presbyterian Senior Living (PSL) volunteers and auxiliary members to express our appreciation for all that they do to make PSL communities a special place to live and work. Volunteers come to us from a variety of sources. They include residents from our independent living, personal care, or skilled nursing center – where the idea of neighbors helping neighbors is clearly expressed.
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Caregiver Support | Health & Aging
Parkinson’s disease is a brain disorder that causes tremors, balance problems and changes to gait and speech. About 1.5 million Americans currently suffer from the disease, and some 60,000 new cases are diagnosed every year. The condition most often strikes seniors, affecting about 18 out of every 1,000 people over age 65.
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Creating meaningful moments through family bonding for your aging loved ones when they are no longer living at home can be a difficult challenge - but one that you can easily overcome with the right mentality and technology. In fact, research published in the Seniors Housing and Care Journal indicates that senior living communities which welcome and nurture interactions between family members realize a beneficial outcome: quality of life improvements among residents. Let’s take a closer look at the findings, along with highlighting a few ways Presbyterian Senior Living embraces family members in the senior living experience.
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Spring is peeking it's warm face around the corner and now is a great time to start preparing your aging loved one for spring. Even though temperatures are on the rise, spring brings a lot of wet, volatile weather that most senior citizens neglect to address adequately without assistance from their caregivers.
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If you’re a caregiver for a senior parent, you have a lot of challenges managing your time, resources and energy. And if you’re a senior yourself, you know that caring for an aging parent can come during a period of your life when you’re feeling the need to slow down and scale back.
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Caregiver Support | Health & Aging
Older adults are living longer now than previous generations. This means adult children caring for elderly parents are likely to be approaching 70 themselves. Allen Geiwitz, a 71 year-old retired computer programmer, knows the strain this can have on older adult caregivers.
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