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05/06/2024
Know someone impacted by Parkinson’s Disease? Lisa Laney, Owner of MAPCN has volunteered with the Asheville Parkinson’s Support Group for over 20 years.
She currently is serving on their executive board.
Check out the brand new, informative and dynamic website this group just created 🎉
Parkinson's | Parkinson's Support Group Of Asheville Parkinson's Support Group of Asheville provide information and resources for anyone coping with Parkinson's disease.
18/05/2023
Lisa was invited by a local retirement community to lecture regarding how to navigate activation of long term care policies and maximize the benefits to meet care needs.
Any of the Care Managers with MAPCN can assist individuals to understand their policies and plan for future needs.
20/11/2022
Pick up a copy of the newest edition of Aging Resources Magazine! The 2022-23 edition features the latest aging wellness, senior living, and caregiving articles, along with resources and providers throughout WNC.
🔹 View the online edition: https://bit.ly/AgingResources22-23
Thank you to: AdventHealth Hendersonville, Ardenwoods Retirement Community, The Council on Aging for Henderson County, Carolina Village, Compassionate Care Western North Carolina, Carolina Reserve of Hendersonville, Carolina Reserve of Laurel Park, CenterWell Home Health, Edward Jones-Financial Advisor: Leslie Apple, Four Seasons, The Care You Trust, Four Seasons Hospice Home Store, Fletcher Park Inn, FirstLight Home Care of Asheville, Givens Estates Health Care Center, Heritage Hills, A Pacifica Senior Living Community, Knox Law, Laurel Health Care Company, Mission Health, Marthaler Jewelers, Mountain Area Premier Care Navigation, NC Department of Insurance, St Luke's Hospital • Columbus, NC, Steve Dozier Group, StoneCreek Health & Rehabilitation, The Van Winkle Law Firm
Always Best Care Western NC, Best Care Home Care, Biggert's Hearing Instruments, Brooks-Howell Home, Brunson's Furniture Center & Patio Shoppe, Choice Care, Your Way, Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community, Gant Hearing Care, Jill Hart, Realtor, SRES, CSA, Helping Wheels Inc, Land of Sky Regional Council, LimbTech, North Carolina State Veterans Home Black Mountain, Nc, Pardee UNC Health Care, Pisgah Valley Retirement Community, Sona Pharmacy + Clinic, The Steve Cooper Real Estate Team, TerraBella Hendersonville, The Hendersonville Community Co-op, YMCA of Western North Carolina, WNCSource
This is exactly what our community needs, and has needed for some time.
www.ccld.community.
03/11/2022
Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed
(from poet Mary Oliver)
Happy National Caregivers' Month!!
31/03/2022
Let’s do this right.
The work is HARD, the patient vulnerable, and there are no do-overs.
It is time to value our senior population and provide quality care. This starts with removing high profit from the nursing home industry, from the private duty agencies and for private families to understand this isn’t the time to be financially conservative.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/opinion/home-care-aides-industry.html?referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR2PSQtJ_vurlIm0LY1bt6O4kRqNWGJ6txu77yZrPKornpPPA6ItBDXO00w
Opinion | We Need More Home Care Workers. But First We Have to Pay Them Enough. A plan for higher home care wages under consideration in New York State could offer a model for how we can care for older people.
17/02/2022
One day, hopefully, quality healthcare in the US will be a priority
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/infection-control/cdc-cms-call-for-rebuilding-health-system-after-patient-safety-measures-drop.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2cpgp01cPSaAqiIRCGckXw2Yw0zITXs3A5DJPjtpuw2n9CXRCOoaLwCgQ
CDC, CMS call for rebuilding health system after patient safety measures drop As patient safety declines amid the pandemic, the U.S. must rebuild a healthcare delivery system in which safety is embedded in every step of a process, with clear metrics that are aggregated, assessed and acted on, according to an analysis published Feb. 12 by The New England Journal of Medicine.
11/02/2022
People Over 80 Are Still Taking Care of Their Parents and Partners The increasing number of older caregivers is adding a layer of fragility to the nation’s already strained family care-giving system, long the backbone of long-term care.
07/02/2022
A most dear client of mine beginning in April 2020 for both Care Management services & provision of 24/7 dedicated caregivers (who had the most fun as part of this gentleman's life to support him to remain in his home). He loved watching Andy Griffith & Gunsmoke ALL day long, while also trying to trick caregivers by sticking out his leg from his recliner to pretend to trip you or to pop out his arm to act as if to grab you as you were hustling by to refill his water & he would just laugh, laugh! I have never met a more authentically kind person. A man from the RURAL mountains, from a large family, who had a modest life, and just slowly amassed financial resources over the decades.
** PLEASE DO HOMEWORK when seeking in home care providers.
Anyone can get a LLC & call themselves a home care provider, there is NO gov.'t oversight for these "companies"*** ...there is no more vulnerable chapter in one's life as when one is aging & dependent upon care providers in their home.
It is possible & rewarding when the caregiver becomes truly like family and happens oh, so often ❤️...but, when the vetting falls short, the risk of unimaginable negative impact is real.
Home health care owner overcharged NC clients $1M for lavish shopping sprees, feds say Prosecutors said the two victims were 86 and 90 years old, one of whom had dementia.
20/01/2022
Geriatric Emergency Rooms: Better Care, Better Value and Becoming More Common Geriatric ERs are game-changers in health care. Here's why older adults need them and how have they evolved.
16/01/2022
The Stresses of Being a Caregiver | Kiplinger One study shows that caregiving takes a greater toll on retirees' mental health than on their finances.
16/01/2022
Morphine: A Misunderstood Medication Physicians and caregivers work to clear up myths about powerful end-of-life drugs
20/11/2021
a few valuable nuggets in this article
How to have 'the talk' with your aging parents Do this so you don't have to guess or scramble in an emergency
26/10/2021
Nice short article (albeit polluted with Ads) regarding nuances of choosing Medicare products (in short choose Plan G & be cautious of Advantage Plan hype)
Medicare Mistakes You Need To Avoid Medicare doesn't cover all retirement medical expenses. You need to fill the gaps.
09/10/2021
"....the current system, requiring home health aides to go through a training program and get certified in order to get a job that doesn’t even pay “survival” wages, will just “magnify the inequities that already exist.”
‘We’re aides, not maids.’ How one high-demand job shows education system’s failings Key to enabling older adults to remain at home is expanding the number of home health aides, but attracting aides is challenging; it’s exhausting work, with low pay, often no benefits, little respect and is overwhelmingly done by women of color and a dwindling number of immigrants.