Archive for Family

  • Your Advocacy Connection Your Advocacy Connection

    We Solve Long Term Care Problems Holidays and Jousting with the White Knight By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Benefits Advocate A reoccurring theme with our client families is the White Knight (WK) syndrome. The WK is often the family member who lives at the greatest physical dis...

  • Aging and You Aging and You

    Home for the Holidays – The Spirit of Giving By Julie Arndt Marketing Director at Ridgecrest Village We are all familiar with the phrase ‘home for the holidays.’ I truly love this time of year. Being the youngest of six children growing up on a farm in northern Iowa, I have very fond memo...

  • Ella’s Kitchen Ella’s Kitchen

    It’s November and everything is turkey. Do you have lots of turkey leftover after the big meal? Here are some ideas to use up that turkey. My children tired of turkey soup and turkey casseroles so one year about 40 years ago, they came up with turkey nachos. It is now one of our traditions.  Enjo...

  • Just Saying... Just Saying…

    The Ghosts of Turkeys Past By Q.C. Jones Nothing says November like the turkey.  As a large part of my elementary education brainwashing involved dozens of exercises which revolved around this remarkable fowl. Scrounging around in that quite disorganized and junked up heap of memories called QC...

  • Hostess with the Mostest: Thanksgiving Edition Hostess with the Mostest: Thanksgiving Edition

    By Melissa Jaeger RD, LD Hy-Vee Registered Dietician (515) 695-3773     mjaeger@hy-vee.com Hosting friends and family this Thanksgiving? Hosting can have its perks – HELLO, not having to drive in any snowy cold conditions – but it can certainly cause additional stress. While I can’t help ...

  • Small Town America Small Town America

    Part 1 of a two-part tale of travels in scenic central Iowa By Mary Schricker Gemberling “Travel is about the wonderful feeling of teetering in the unknown”.......Anthony Bourdain Those of you who follow this publication know that Gary and I love to travel in our motor home. It gives us an ...

  • 15th CASI Holiday Hat Bash 15th CASI Holiday Hat Bash

    By Gwen Tombergs Chair of CASI’s 2023 Hat Bash Fifteen years ago, a letter from a senior whose only Christmas gift was delivered by a CASI staff member spurred a movement. Lenora never knew how she impacted thousands of seniors who needed Christmas gifts and low-income senior services. Her let...

  • PUBLISHER’S CORNER PUBLISHER’S CORNER

    Treasuring Thanksgiving Memories and Traditions By Eloise Graham My early memories of this feast consisted of a noon meal of turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, bread/sage stuffing, sweet potatoes with brown sugar and marshmallows, homemade rolls and pumpkin pie. Oh, and olives and pickles served in a...