SEARCH IS ON FOR CALIFORNIA’S OUTSTANDING SENIOR VOLUNTEER
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - January 29, 2013 - The search is on for California’s outstanding senior volunteer. The Salute to Senior ServiceSM program, sponsored by Home Instead, Inc., the franchisor of the Home Instead Senior Care® network, honors the contributions of adults 65 and older who give at least 15 hours a month of volunteer service to their favorite causes.
Nominations for outstanding senior volunteers will be accepted between Feb. 1 and March 31, 2013. State winners then will be selected by popular vote at SalutetoSeniorService.com. Online voting will take place from April 15 to April 30, 2013. From those state winners, a panel of senior care experts will pick the national Salute to Senior Service honoree.
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Holiday Program Helps Auburn Area Seniors Struggling With Poverty and Loneliness
The Auburn office of the Home Instead Senior Care® network, the world's largest provider of non-medical in-home care and companionship services for older adults, has partnered with Local Senior-Care Agencies and Area Retailers for the Be a Santa to a Senior program, which provides gifts and companionship to seniors who otherwise might not receive either this holiday season.
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Local Program Arms Families with Tools to Protect Senior Loved Ones from Scams
Sacramento and Auburn senior care experts are urging residents of Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Nevada Counties and their families to be alert for scammers who may be targeting their senior loved ones with a variety of senior fraud schemes, such as identity theft, Medicaid/Medicare and medication fraud, and financial exploitation.. Home Instead Senior Care is pleased to offer the Senior Fraud Protection Kit designed to help protect seniors from fraud.
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Free Alzheimer's Training Now Available To Local Family Caregivers
The Home Instead Senior Care® offices serving Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Nevada Counties is offering a new training program called Alzheimer's CARE, designed to help families manage the challenges of Alzheimer's and other dementias – diseases that eventually rob seniors of their memories and independence. Free training for families caring for these older adults is now available. Visit HelpForAlzheimersFamilies.com or call 916.920.2273 in Sacramento and 530.885.3904 in Auburn for more information.
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Seniors' Economic Struggles Continue This Holiday; Santa Program Provides Assistance
The Sacramento and Auburn office of the Home Instead Senior Care® network, the world's largest provider of non-medical in-home care and companionship services for older adults, has partnered with Local Senior-Care Agencies and Area Retailers for the Be a Santa to a Senior program, which provides gifts and companionship to seniors who otherwise might not receive either this holiday season.
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Craving Companionship: Recipe contest helps revive family mealtimes for local seniors
According to research conducted for the Home Instead Senior Care® network, lack of companionship is the biggest mealtime challenge for seniors. The local Home Instead Senior Care office is encouraging family caregivers to dig into the family recipe box to find that favorite dish, and prepare and share a meal with their elderly loved one. Enter that recipe and the story about what makes the dish so special to your family in the Homemade MemoriesSM Recipe Contest between July 15 and September 15, 2011.
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Answering the Call: Local Program Helps Family Caregivers Prepare for Senior Emergencies
If you're an adult son or daughter who lives in fear of getting "the call" – the one that tells you "Mom has suffered a stroke," or "Dad accidentally overdosed on his medications" – do you have the information you need to help your loved one? Many don't, according to research conducted for the Home Instead Senior Care® network. The organization conducted research with family caregivers to find out how much they know and developed a public education program with resources that can help family caregivers keep important information at their fingertips.
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Battle of the Ages
Just when you thought that a family caregiver’s job couldn’t get more difficult, consider this: Many of the estimated 47,000 households caring for a senior in the greater Sacramento area are trying to help an aging relative who’d rather not have help.
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