Preserving Mom’s Memories…and Her Recipes!
Was your mom a great cook? A good cook? A lousy cook? No matter what her cooking prowess, some of your fondest memories are of her cooking—including the time she made Hawaiian Style Pork Chops substituting chicken for pork and peaches for pineapple. Or the time she accidentally made a lemon meringue pie and grabbed the salt instead of the sugar. Your mom’s old family recipes are not only part of her past they are part of your past. What better way to make mom feel important and appreciated than to preserve her recipes? Your in-home caregiver can help do just that. Memory books can …
Meet ElliQ – the robot for seniors 🤖
Today, nearly 29% of older adults live alone, without their partners or loved ones around. As if that wasn’t a big enough challenge, families nowadays have become smaller and are drifting farther apart, moving cities, states, and even oceans away. As a result, older adults living away from their loved ones are quickly becoming one of the most isolated – and coincidingly, lonely – demographics among our society. Though more attention is finally being paid to the extent of this loneliness, we’re now at a critical turning point – and we’re beginning to understand just how immense the consequences of …
Life’s little pleasures
Life’s Little Pleasures: Coffee in Your Jammies Not everyone drinks coffee in the morning. Not everyone has the luxury of lingering in bed with that first hot cup of joe. But if you are retired this can be more than just a weekend indulgence—languishing in bed in your jammies, having coffee, maybe even catching the last ten minutes of the show you fell asleep watching the night before. Or maybe you want to read the paper in complete silence. Ah, the retired life. Now imagine you are 94 years old, hard of hearing, achy-boned, and last night you suffered yet …