Tag: Helping Seniors
How to be Creative With Seniors, Part 4 with Kelley Smith
Kelley talks about capturing special moments — how we can memorialize these moments to make them last. Take a picture, but frame it and put it up in her room or on her wall, because even if she's in memory care, it helps. Some other ideas are making recordings, scrap books, or a gallery wall.
How to be Creative With Seniors, Part 3 with Kelley Smith
Kelley talks about lightening up a senior loved one's day. One thing Kelley's done often is dressing up in costumes, such as pirates, food, and baseball players. It got to be fun, and it created events that were about them, and helped them look forward to your visit.
How to be Creative With Seniors, Part 2 with Kelley Smith
Kelley talks about how to lighten up and have fun, getting creative, not taking everything your senior loved one says personally. Putting yourself in their shoes, trying to understand and listen as a peer if you can, how would you feel if you were in their situation, helps.
How to be Creative With Seniors, Part 1 with Kelley Smith
Kelley talks about winning the Nesby Glasgow Essence Award. Many reasons for that were for her outside-the-box ideas, such as how to be creative with seniors. In this segment, Kelley talks about how to step into the mindset of being creative in the moment, ways to entertain, be fluid, with seniors.
You Are Not Alone, Part 4 with Daphne Davis
How often have you felt alone in this process of caring for a senior loved one? In this hour, Daphne discusses how you're truly...
You Are Not Alone, Part 3 with Daphne Davis
How often have you felt alone in this process of caring for a senior loved one? In this hour, Daphne discusses how you're truly...
You Are Not Alone, Part 2 with Daphne Davis
How often have you felt alone in this process of caring for a senior loved one? In this hour, Daphne discusses how you're truly...
You Are Not Alone, Part 1 with Daphne Davis
How often have you felt alone in this process of caring for a senior loved one? In this hour, Daphne discusses how you're truly...
Senior Summer Safety with Shawn Weiss
Shawn Weiss is an expert in the areas of geriatrics, fall prevention, cognitive decline, healthy living, home health, and caregiver training. In this segment, Shawn talks about why summer safety is so important for our senior loved ones, why older adults are more susceptible to heat-related illnesses, and provides some ways our seniors can stay safe and healthy during the summer months.
Staying Connected After the Move, with Daphne Davis
Now that our parents have moved, how do we relax together and how do we stay connected? Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements explains...