Awakening: Eldercare - Interviews with Compelling People by Connie Shaw
4 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 15 years ago -"Awakening" boldly investigates the steps that heroic people everywhere are taking to meet the effects of the current economic and social crisis in daily life. These dynamic role models are feeding the homeless, retrieving parents from nursing homes, growing their own food, creating community, radically forgiving, and discovering the miraculous. The Western American author Louis Lamour has said that "There will come a time when you think that everything is ending. But that will be the beginning." "Awakening" is about that planetary beginning. www.connieshaw.com
Eldercare: Interviews with a number of wonderful and insightful family care-givers taking care of aging parents at home. Insights and information on resources, planning, daily regimens, nutrition, health care, insurance, physical and mental exercise and much more.
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Episodes
Mom (88 years old) To Alaska - Guest Jane Trainor, Fairbanks, AK
December 27, 2008 18:37 - 31 minutes - 7.31 MBJane Trainor is a long-time Fairbanks resident, who is a healer, colonic therapist and humanitarian. She moved her mother into her home from the East Coast after mother Marcia's short stay in a nursing home. Her mother was in very poor physical and mental condition when she arrived in Alaska. Jane set up a program of nutrition, physical, mental and social improvement for her mother. With the help of her family and community resources her mother came "back to life." Topics: Trapping and Fish...
Affordable Quality Care for Mom Part 2 - Guest Suzanne Shaw
December 27, 2008 18:31 - 28 minutes - 6.37 MBSuzanne Shaw of Danville, Indiana, is a gifted medical intuitive and intuitive life-coach who is a self-employed single woman, and an only child, who moved from Colorado to a small rural community to care for her eighty-seven-year-old widowed mother, Kathleen. Topics: Bathroom organization * Appliances * Safety bars and rails * Widen the doors or not * Raised toilet seat * Shower bench * Ramps * Chair lift * Battery-backed stair-lift * Lift-bed * Walker beside the bed * Three-wheel walker wi...
Affordable Quality Care for Mom Part 1 - Guest Suzanne Shaw
December 27, 2008 18:26 - 29 minutes - 6.65 MBSuzanne Shaw of Danville, Indiana, is a gifted medical intuitive and intuitive life-coach who is a self-employed single woman, and an only child, who moved from Colorado to a small rural community to care for her eighty-seven-year-old widowed mother, Kathleen. Topics: Demands on the caregiver * Local senior centers * Federal and state agency resources * Free services * Respite care * Groceries * Cleaning * State Council on Aging * Military benefits through USAA * AARP help * Meals: Seattle S...
Mom, My Menagerie and Me - Guest Rosemary Strauss, Owner of Peaceful Valley Farm, Dry Ridge, KY
December 11, 2008 18:49 - 27 minutes - 6.25 MBRosemary Strauss, nurse and massage therapist, has performed wonders with her 97 year-old mother, Theresa Kulinski, who now reads a book a day, no longer uses a wheelchair, does chores and helps with the animals. Learn how Rosemary has rehabilitated Theresa and created a rich country life for them and their horses, dogs, pond fish and other well-cared-for animals in scenic Kentucky. Topics: How to interact as a parent-advocate with medical staff * Mom’s tasks and responsibilities * The import...