Ode Magazine Names Cravaat #1
Ode Magazine Names the Cravaat #1 in best adult bibs. The incognito bib preserves your dignity while it protects your clothes.
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What To Do When a Loved One Dies
You’ve lost a loved one, now what? One of the most stressful experiences in life is losing a loved one. The last thing you need after the funeral is more stress from settling their estate. But not everyone has an attorney, accountant, and financial planner to take care of settling the estate. For those who
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Products You Didn’t Know Existed
What I discovered as a caregiver I may not be a professional caregiver, or a full-time caregiver, or a sole caregiver, but I’m a caregiver all the same. Like the estimated 43.5 million others Americans who care for someone else, I found myself helping my parents out a little, then a little more, and then
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Another Side of Caregiving in the Age of Technology
In this day and age, caregiving for your parents may include more than just physical assistance. Caregiving may involve providing technical support. In other words, you may find yourself helping your parents and loved ones with computer and internet needs. Chances are, whatever their competency level is with computer technology, they have gaps in their
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More Resources for Elders
The More You Know DinerWear® is all about caregiving, solutions, and making life easier. Having resources to go to when you need to figure things out is what makes our lives easier. It should be what every business is about—solving your problems and making your life easier. It’s what DinerWear® strives to do with our stylish
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Keep Your Style During Family Holiday Meals
Keeping Your Clothes Clean During Holiday Meals In all our talk about caregiving, I thought it was worth revisiting this topic. Our products are designed not only to give an individual dignity while protecting their clothes from food spills, but it helps with caregiving by keeping clothes clean. Something we’ve heard time and time again
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Caregiving at Home – Parent Proofing Your House
When caregiving hits home, parent-proofing your house needs to be part of the plan. I recently had to prepare for my parents stay after my mother’s hip replacement surgery. We needed to determine sleeping arrangements, the bathroom situation, and where and how she (and dad) would spend their days. Here are some things I’ve learned
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Resources for Caregiving
Since writing our first post including RESOURCES for Caregiving, we have heard about additional Senior/Disability Resources. Therefore we will continue to add to the list of resources as a reference: Organizations: medicare.gov – www.medicare.gov Information on what a caregiver needs to know. Helps you navigate through the caring quagmire. Caregiver Action Network for a list of
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The Cost of Living for Elders
The Cost of Living for Elders Why does senior care and senior housing seem to have become such a problem for this generation? My first thought is that it’s just because we don’t take our parents into our home anymore, but it’s more complicated than that, so it’s good to know what’s going on. A
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Finding Solutions in the Sea of Information
Solutions are all around us, but how do we find them. Recently we had a call from someone who heard about DinerWear® from a customer. The customer was surprised that the person in the senior living community didn’t know about our stylish dining scarves and dignified clothing protectors as alternate solutions to adult bibs. That
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