GRAND Magazine - May 2009 - 29

s p ec i a l a dv e rto r i a l May is for Mother… In May, the landscape bursts with spring flowers, the first hint of summer is in the air, and the second Sunday is devoted to Mothers, Grand Mothers and Great Grandmothers. For most people those words evoke special feelings and memories: a familiar scent wrapped in a warm embrace; the smell of fresh baked cookies; bedtime stories and soft lullabies; nights spent at the kitchen or dining room table on home work; chicken soup filled with love for the stuffy nose; making jelly the “old fashioned” way; Saturday matinees at the movies; backyard barbeques or family celebrations; summers at the cabin, the farm, or the lake. tasks? Are they socializing with friends? Enjoying a hobby? Are they meeting their financial obligations? Keeping abreast of our loved ones medical, financial and social challenges helps families act with foreknowledge. But in spite of our best efforts sometimes things happen that we just can’t anticipate. Fortunately, today families have a way to address these needs by sharing the care with other family members. CareGiverHelper offers the tools to manage this process As our mother, grandmothers and great grandmothers get and to put the family in touch with resources such as assistive older it’s important to cherish those special moments and to devices, in home support, adult day care; or other services to make new memories by spending time with them NOW, while make your caregiving task easier. we have it, and to treasure the traditions that bind us together. Collect family stories and photographs and load them to your CareGiverHelper gives you access to a whole palette of family community at CareGiverHelper and share them with valuable services, tools and information. The tools provide other family members. families with a reasoned approach that result in improved outcomes for loved ones and caregivers alike. Today more than Use regular visits and conversations as an opportunity to ever, we need to use our time to connect with and help Mother, assess their health and well being. Are they eating properly? Grand Mother and Great Grand Mother. CareGiverHelper Taking their medications as directed? Seeing their doctors makes it easier to do just that. If you haven’t already, sign up for when necessary? Are they losing physical abilities such as sight, your FREE family community today. hearing and mobility? Are they experiencing issues related to household chores such as cooking, shopping, driving, bathing or other daily living “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” - Washington Irving

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GRAND Magazine - May 2009

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