Posts Tagged Toal

  • Your Advocacy Connection - Assisted Living: When is the Right Time? Your Advocacy Connection – Assisted Living: When is the Right Time?

    By Deb Toal GolderCare Solutions When is the right time to move? Isn’t this a lifelong question? When I was 16 years old and knew everything, I dreamed of the independence of having my own place. I was ready to move! When the day actually came a few years later, and I moved into my first apar...

  • Your Advocacy Connection

    By Deb Toal GolderCare Solutions Offering Comprehensive Long Term Care Solutions and Patient Advocacy As I write this article, it has been a couple of weeks since GolderCare Solutions led an interactive Patient Advocacy Coaching Forum for the general public commemorating World Patient Safety...

  • Your Advocacy Connection:Preventing Prescription Pitfalls- Part 2 Your Advocacy Connection:Preventing Prescription Pitfalls- Part 2

    By Deb Toal GolderCare Solutions In last month’s article, we talked about preventing prescription pitfalls and Brown Bag medication surveys. So what else can you do to avoid inadvertent medication misuse? Let’s address some additional tips on proper medication usage this month. The followin...

  • Your Advocacy Connection - Preventing Prescription Pitfalls Your Advocacy Connection – Preventing Prescription Pitfalls

    By Deb Toal GolderCare Solutions Remember when your medication regime consisted of taking your once-a-day vitamin? When did it get so complicated? Almost half of the adults in the United States, who are 65 or older, are taking at least three prescription medications. This does not factor in...

  • Understanding a Nursing Home Care Plan – Part 2 Understanding a Nursing Home Care Plan – Part 2

    By Deb Toal GolderCare Solutions Your Advocacy Connection - Offering Comprehensive Care and Financial Advocacy Last month, our article focused on nursing home care plans. We defined what a care plan is, the function of care plans and the importance of the resident and their family’s involv...

  • Understanding a Nursing Home Care Plan – Part 1 Understanding a Nursing Home Care Plan – Part 1

    By Deb Toal GolderCare Solutions Your Advocacy Connection - Offering Comprehensive Care and Financial Advocacy It’s quite an adjustment for anyone when their loved one needs to enter a nursing home. We might wonder how the nursing home staff will know how to provide for our loved one’...

  • Your Advocacy Connection Your Advocacy Connection

    Offering Comprehensive Care and Financial Advocacy By Deb Toal GolderCare Solutions In the year I was born, Perry Como recorded “(There’s No Place Like) Home for the Holidays.” It has long been a favorite song of mine. In my mind, I see the Norman Rockwell picture of Grandma ...

  • Calendar of Events - November 2010 Calendar of Events – November 2010

    Support Groups and Informational Seminars Quad Cities Alzheimer’s Association Please call Jerry Schroeder at 563-324-1022 or 800-272-3900 for more information about programs.. Dementia 101 offered at Senior Star at Elmore Place Are you worried about your forgetfulness? Deb Toal will be ...