The Media Food Bank serves Delaware County providing service to families in long term and temporary need!  

So – Feed Your Hungry Souls With Music… and theirs with your contributions!

Come on over to UUCDC for the evening!

Show your love, bring some friends (BYOB!), save your money for a generous food bank donation, and hear some great music – including some Jazz – by some great local musicians! (including yours truly)

Tj McGlinchey - young, handsome, up and coming folk singer-song writer!

Lazaro Herrera’s SYNTHESIS Band - the best latin music in the area!

Marla McCollugh - wild & crazy with a voice beyond compare – bringing us some Ella Fitzgerald, some Nina Simone, & more…

and…

Jean Therapy (formerly The Transposers) – with a new drummer, new sound & new attitude!

CAN’T COME? – please forward the flyer – and make a donation anyway, via online ticketing!

Click this link to see flyer media food bank

No this is not an official name of the year or anything, I just coined the term now. It is my way of asking all caregivers out there to try and do one nice thing for him or herself once this year, once a month, once a week or if you can once a day. Too often caregivers get caught in the cycle always being available for their loved one, concentrating on what their loved one needs, being distracted by thoughts of whether the loved is okay or not and in general feeling tired and worn out. The caregiver’s needs get left to last and often there is no time or the caregiver feels he or she just doesn’t have the strength to do it. Caregivers, try to make a resolution for 2011 that you will do something nice for yourself at least one time this year if not more.

And for those of us who are not caregivers, maybe we could make a new year resolution to help a caregiver out. Offer to give him or her a break for an hour or more and stay with the loved one. If you are not comfortable with that due to an illness the person might have, maybe offer to go to grocery store for the caregiver or pick up prescriptions. Maybe make a meal and deliver it to the home or offer to help with something like shoveling snow or putting trash out. Trust me any little thing you do to help is a big help.

Also, last but not least don’t ask a caregiver what you can do to help because he or she is so overwhelmed that asking is just adding another thing he or she has to do. Watch and listen and you will see or hear what needs to be done and then you can offer. Join me in making this The Year of the Caregiver!

Food donation collection sites Montgomery County PA, Chester County PA.

via Food donation collection sites Montgomery County PA, Chester County PA.

8:30AM – 11:30AM
Breakfast and Coffee Connection Networking
Coffee Provided by:
Drexelbrook Catering & Corporate Events Center

10:30AM – 11:30AM
“Global Web Seminar” — Must be registered to attend. Extremely Limited Seating(registration for this seminar is separate from Open House Registration)

11:30AM – 1:30PM
Lunch/Networking
Provided by: Panera Bread

1:30PM – 2:30PM
Member Orientation
(Reserved for New Members and Members who have not attended an orientation previously.)
Provided by: Delightful Detail
Comfort Keepers

BOTH MEMBERS AND FUTURE MEMBERS PLEASE REGISTER TO ATTEND!

Directions: Parking is limited please park in the available lot next door at PNC Bank. The path will be lined with balloons. CAR POOLING IS ALSO SUGGESTED!

Don’t forget to bring non-perishable boxed dessert items for our Thanksgiving Food Drive! We’ll be accepting gelatin, pudding and cake or brownie mixes! Help us reach our goal of 1600 boxes!

Have you ever seen that commercial where the lady falls in the living room and shouts
“Help me I fallen!”?

Ever wonder what happened to her? If so, you might want to come to an informative session on how Technology Solutions such as the Personal Emergency Response System or the “Help me I fallen” machine works.

Join us for an informative and casual discussion on:
Personal Emergency Response Systems
Medication Dispensing Technology
Door and Window Alarm Technology
Bedside Pressure Mat Alarms
And Other Safety Choice Items.

Don’t miss a fun time!
When: Friday, August 27, 2010
Time: Noon to 1pm
Place: Ambler Senior Center
45 Forest Ave
Ambler, PA 19002

This session is for information purposes only.
There will be no selling of product or future solicitation.

Join us for a fun and educational morning
created just for senior adults.
®
Discover local resources for maximizing your
quality of life through
• Health and wellness
• Home and lifestyle options
• Legal and financial insight

• A chance to reunite friends…
and make new ones!

Sponsored by Comfort Keepers – http://ping.fm/0QtNi
and Long Foster Realtors.

For more information on Library, click below:
http://abg.mclinc.org/

Many of these employees however worked through the summer. They were caregiving an elderly loved one. The summer allowed them to go over to the home of their aging loved one and check to make sure medications were being taken, meals were eaten, doctor appointments were made and in some cases, personal grooming such as showering was done. The act of caregiving is in itself often a full time job that never stops, no breaks, no rest, it is constant worry about someone who needs everything from a little guidance or reminders to alot of help.

What will all these summer caregivers do when they return to school next month? How will their aging loved one get the help they need? Well now is the time to start to look into an assessment of what the person needs and to set up the help now so that the loved one gets used to a stranger coming into the home when the caregiver goes back to school.

Most in-home services have minimal hour requirement per visit and often there is no requirement on frequency of those visits nor the length of time of care. This means a loved one who just needs a bath once or twice a week and maybe help to grocery store can be help with minimal services while a person with different needs could have help every day if necessary for meals, medication reminder, showering, help to grocery store or doctor and so on. In most states if not all, medicare does not cover these services. So what are your options?

One you could pay privately for the care but I suggest you are careful about who you have come into the home. Most in-home companies have employees who are bonded and insured with workers’ compensation and background checks. They also have enough caregivers so that if your caregiver calls out they have a replacement. Second option is to go through the Area Agency on Aging in your county. Often they offer in-home services and they pay for it if your loved one qualifies. Third options is long term care insurance. If your loved one has policy such as John Hancock, Genworth, Metlife and so on, that policy may have benefit that covers in-home care. Last there is a veteran’s benefit available for any veteran or spouse that is 65 or over and meets criteria set forth by the VA. To read more on this benefit , click HERE . http://ping.fm/Ud5we

To read more on how help is close by, click HERE
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