Archive for Family

  • Your Advocacy Connection - What does GolderCare Solutions do? – Part 5 Your Advocacy Connection – What does GolderCare Solutions do? – Part 5

    Your Advocacy Connection Offering Comprehensive Care and Financial Advocacy GolderCare Solutions provides long-term care solutions by offering classic and comprehensive care coordination and advocacy. Comprehensive care coordination and advocacy services helps to provide solutions to our clie...

  • Love Lights a Candle Love Lights a Candle

    By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Linda often has a fragrant candle burning in our home. Wispy spring and summery scents enjoyed for the past several months have been recently replaced by the warm and inviting scents of autumn. As the snow falls to stay, the aromas of everg...

  • Questions Parents Need to Ask When Selecting a Program for Their Child Questions Parents Need to Ask When Selecting a Program for Their Child

    By Rondi Doyle Director of Community Relations Child Abuse Council Let’s say you are lucky enough to have options as you prepare to enroll your child or grandchild in daycare, school or community-based program. How do you choose the right daycare, school or program for your child/grandchild...

  • The Holiday Season! – PUBLISHER’S CORNER The Holiday Season! – PUBLISHER’S CORNER

    By Dee Deuth, CSA Weerts Funeral Home Most of us prefer to live in the present, enjoy each day. Me, too, usually. However, as the holidays approach, I allow myself the privilege of some reminiscing; bring up some pleasant childhood holidays past. Among my fondest is the memory of Christmas ...

  • Caregiver Fair provides needed information

    By Pam Berenger Community Liason Intouch Adult Day Care and Home Care Services The complexities of aging and caregiving can be overwhelming at times. With more and more older people electing to live independent, non-institutionalized lives, and families choosing to keep their loved at home, th...

  • Risks when Hiring an Independent Contractor or Using a Registry for Home Care Risks when Hiring an Independent Contractor or Using a Registry for Home Care

    By Dan Adams Lighthouse Homecare Everyone likes a bargain, but when it comes to home care, selecting the cheapest price for care can result in the most expensive implications. Oftentimes, consumers are unaware of the risks they are exposing themselves to when they hire care through a regist...

  • Your Advocacy Connection - What does GolderCare Solutions do? – Part 4 Your Advocacy Connection – What does GolderCare Solutions do? – Part 4

    Your Advocacy Connection Offering Comprehensive Care and Financial Advocacy The last few months, our articles have been focused on defining the services GolderCare Solutions provides to its clients and most recently, we have shared specific examples of how classic care coordination and advoca...

  • Children’s CD Available – A Great Christmas Gift Idea

    By Carol Brown Iowa State University Extension Scott County A new children’s music CD from Iowa Learning Farms, “Dogs, Frogs and Nature Songs,” has just been released. The CD is all about nature, conservation and learning. The CD has 21 songs composed, arranged and performed by Ames and S...