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Postulate: A Caregiver’s Approach to Dealing With Stress During the Holidays

Nancy Ruffner
December 2, 2014

I have a good friend who embodies the familiar phrase “I call ‘em as I see ’em.” Not curmudgeon exactly, and not to the point of being an “Eeyore,” she is…

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Elder Care Services, Home Health Care, Senior Advocacy, Senior Care Services

Adult Children of Aging Parents: Your Job Is To Talk

Nancy Ruffner
November 25, 2014

How Adult Children of Aging Parents can turn thought into action – Begin the talk. You know the feeling. The one you get when you hear or read something that simply…

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Elder Care Services, Senior Advocacy

Abate: Anxiety in Caregiving

Nancy Ruffner
November 4, 2014

Ab-ATE Caregiving for our aging parents carries with it a certain low level anxiety. That same ever-present anxiety can be felt while caring for minor children or performing a job…

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Elder Care Services, Senior Advocacy

Caring For Elderly Parents Requires Strategy

Nancy Ruffner
October 7, 2014

There is no doubt that caring for elderly parents requires strategy.  I hear it and see it daily: the need for strategy. Being in the industry I read All Things…

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Senior Advocacy, Senior Care Services, Senior Healthcare

Aggravate: Emotions of Caregiving

Nancy Ruffner
September 16, 2014

Emotions of Caregiving -An Adult Child of Senior Parents Shares Aggravation From the “Well, that just beats all” department: The headline read “Baby pictures hanging at doctor’s office? Cute, sure,…

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Senior Advocacy

Caregiver Fatigue

Nancy Ruffner
July 24, 2014

  Our –ATE word this week is CAPITULATE. Giving in, and the costs of doing so. If I have learned one thing lately it is to pay attention to the…

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Elder Care Services, Senior Advocacy, Senior Healthcare, Senior Helpers, Stories

Katy Did… The Snazzy Walker

Kathy Ruffner Linn
July 10, 2014
Katy Did… The Snazzy Walker

Dad’s balance was bad, and due to whatever was going on between his brain and his muscles, it was rapidly getting worse. He had fallen a couple of times in…

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Walkers for Seniors
Senior Advocacy

How Seniors CONGREGATE

Nancy Ruffner
June 9, 2014

Today’s -ATE word is CONGREGATE. Congregate means to come together, usually for a purpose. How do seniors congregate? Does North Carolina in particular accommodate seniors’ need to socialize? Can you think…

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Elder Care Services, Senior Advocacy

ILLUMINATE : Helping Seniors Avoid Scams in NC

Nancy Ruffner
May 16, 2014

“It happened to me.” Normally, Navigate NC is helping seniors to avoid scams in the Triangle area cities in N.C. Here’s a new twist:  the scammers are not only calling senior…

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scams, seniors
Elder Care Services, Senior Advocacy, Senior Care Services

DISCOMBOBULATE: Finding Caregivers from State to State

Nancy Ruffner
February 22, 2014

Well, he just was. Discombobulated. It is where so many long distance caregivers find themselves.  Taking care of aging parents or seniors from a distance certainly causes caregiver stress which…

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Locating Skilled Nursing Facility, Senior Current Plan
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