This month Friends for Life is 21 years old! We started helping people in September of 1989. This year Friends for Life is helping about 3,815 people. 93 frail elderly and adults with disabilities are enrolled in our Adult Day Care Center with between 75 and 80 coming each day now. We provide nursing care, [...]
The following article was reprinted with the permission of Home Instead. While family caregivers and senior care professionals might recognize that an older adult needs help, seniors often don’t want it, potentially putting their health and safety at risk. Family caregivers may lack the communication skills needed to talk with their aging loved ones about [...]
We first met her when we got a call from someone who was concerned because she was driving recklessly. When we caught up with her we discovered she sat on several telephone books so that she could see out the windshield. She was desperately trying to hold on to her independence but osteoporosis made it [...]
PEACH COBBLER – SHE WAS 96 YEARS OLD and counting on us to help her continue living in her own home. She called the volunteer who adopted her ‘cricket’.
We found an elderly widow sitting in the dark. she had moved from room to room as the light bulbs burned out. When the last one burned out, she was in the dark. We take for granted changing a light bulb, but for frail seniors it is dangerous and it can force them into a [...]