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Innovative Senior Care

 A number of elder-care facilities use the tag line, sales mark or actual business name regarding their approach to "innovative senior care" and below we’ve listed links to several of those organizations. Each organization provides their own level of senior care, elderly care, offerings and approach to providing a degree of care services that benefit the person benefiting from the care as well as the person helping to guide the senior person to such services.

Brookdale Senior Living http://www.brookdaleliving.com/Innovative-senior-care.aspx - they describe on their Website  their commitment to Innovative Senior CareSM as they explain "Care3 Wellness programs help minimize the effects of aging by providing treatments promoting functional independence, improving overall health and techniques for preventing pain and disability."

Innovative Senior Living, Inc. http://www.innovativeseniorliving.com/ - an assisted living facility in Tucson Az. They have what they call Innovative Neighborhoods featuring home, healthcare, and hospitality as cornerstones that may Innovative Senior Living special (to paraphrase text from their Website). They create these innovative neighborhoods with upscale assisted living homes in an attractive neighborhood setting, as noted on their site.

There are numerous companies and organizations that have a focus on innovative senior living and doing a simple search on Google.com will present a long list to view. The two organizations above listed high in the Google.com search conducted for this quick snapshot review.

LeadingAge  - as stated on their home page, "...is an association of 5,600 not-for-profit organizations dedicated to making America a better place to grow old." Some of the numerous services that they provide include helping to advance policies (at many levels), and a major focus on researching solutions and options that aid in helping the elderly to live life to the fullest. 

LeadingAge.org (formerly aahsa.org)
About LeadingAge
Volunteering in Aging Services
Caregiving Resources

Areas where LeadingAge.org can be of assistance in connecting you with member organizations:

  • Assisted Living

  • Continuing Care Retirement Communities

  • Home and Community Based Services

  • Housing

  • Nursing Homes

There are a wide variety of support organizations and groups available to caregivers. You owe it to yourself (or to a caregiver you are acquainted with). Be sure to include in your search effort support groups such as:

Alzheimer's disease support groups

Groups that help caregivers cope with the stress and groups that provide breaks for caregivers

  • Chronic illness support groups

  • Groups to help caregivers and those receiving the care deal with depression

  • Groups providing the needed spiritual support

  • Volunteer support groups

  • Work - life support progra

Government Elder Care Services - be sure to include in your search, the extensive support and services provided by government (local and national) organizations. Here's a few examples:

  • Eldercare Locator, a public service of the U.S. Administration on Aging http://www.eldercare.gov/ & http://www.eldercare.gov/Eldercare.NET/Public/Index.aspx for the locator service.

  • Senior Citizens' Resources  - USA.gov government "...resources for seniors on money, housing, health, consumer protection, and more"

  • Administration on Aging (AOA) - Dept. of Health & Human Services, AOA.gov; and announced on April 16, 2012, a new organization within the Department of Health & Human Services  was formed, the "Administration for Community Living” (ACL). The ACLagency has been charged "...with the goal of increasing access to community supports and full participation, while focusing attention and resources on the unique needs of older Americans and people with disabilities" as noted on their Website. http://www.hhs.gov/acl/

  • Guide to long term care planning - a free guide provided by NCPC, National Care Planning Council

  • http://www.longtermcarelink.net/a13information_guide.htm. And, because of the importance they have placed on the guide, this is their use statement, "You have our limited permission to reproduce the information found on the pages within the Guide to Long Term Care Planning, so long as it is for personal use, noncommercial endeavors, or part of an institution's educational or classroom curriculum" Be sure to bookmark the link to the guide as it is an online resource that you'll need to return to for future reference time and time again we suspect!

  • The NCPC Website also has a valuable list of 45 categories that include links to "...hundreds of useful long term care web sites." http://www.longtermcarelink.net/a14useful_links.htm

  • With this one resource and the link above you will save a great deal of time by simply bookmarking the link above to this page; clicking on any of the 45 category listings takes you to their next page that highlights the types of organziations that are available for that category and has links to every one of the sites that have a focus on the particular category. Once again, a very valuable resource providing links to hundreds of equally valuable elder care and elder caregiver resources. http://www.longtermcarelink.net/a14useful_links.htm


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National Alliance for Caregiving
National Family Caregivers Association
Administration on Aging (AOA) Elders and Families resource list
American Society on Aging
ElderWeb - an online community for adult computer users
Seniors - U.S. government site for a variety of services geared towards senior citizens

Finding Community Services - Eldercare Locator

Topics that can be searched for on the Eldercare Locator...click here to start a search

Alzheimer's Disease
 Caregiver
 Elder Abuse Prevention
 Financial Assistance
 Food & Nutrition
 Health Insurance
 Healthy Aging
 Home Repair & Modification
 Housing Options
 In-Home Services
 Legal Assistance
 Long Term Care
 Nursing Home & Long Term Care Facilities
 Transportation
 Volunteerism
Topics that can be searched for on the Eldercare Locator

Each selection opens a Web page with a description of information and connections to resources you have available (with links to numerous resources included).

 

Elder care group support

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Caring Cards: Conversations with your loved one  - a wonderful idea and product resulting from one daughter's desire to communicate with her mother suffering from dementia
Article in The News-Times on Kathie Nitz
Where to purchase the Caring Cards
More on the services Kathie Nitz provides (her Website)

National Association of Area Agencies on Aging

The organization addresses aging issues for Area Agencies on Aging and helps Title VI Native American aging programs. The organization supports over 600 AAAs along with over 200 Title VI programs through the country.

 

Elder Care - informative site with contributions from numerous sources, with a key focus on elder care / senior care

ehow.com - About Elder Care


 

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Below are links we believe you will find helpful to reach resources, organizations and more...

As we build out our site these links and others will transform into pages on our site where we will provide overviews and comments on each of the Websites and pages that we link to.

...again, providing our elder care 'intermediary' and 'infomediary' services to help guide you in your quest for the best elder/senior care services available.

National Alliance for Caregiving
National Family Caregivers Association
Administration on Aging (AOA) Elders and Families resource list
American Society on Aging
ElderWeb - an online community for adult computer users
Seniors - U.S. government site for a variety of services geared towards senior citizens

Finding Community Services - Eldercare Locator

Topics that can be searched for on the Eldercare Locator...click here to start a search

Alzheimer's Disease
 Caregiver
 Elder Abuse Prevention
 Financial Assistance
 Food & Nutrition
 Health Insurance
 Healthy Aging
 Home Repair & Modification
 Housing Options
 In-Home Services
 Legal Assistance
 Long Term Care
 Nursing Home & Long Term Care Facilities
 Transportation
 Volunteerism
Topics that can be searched for on the Eldercare Locator

Each selection opens a Web page with a description of information and connections to resources you have available (with links to numerous resources included).

 

 
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