Seniors http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/BlogId/3/Default.aspx en-US Wed, 30 May 2012 23:43:57 GMT Wed, 30 May 2012 23:43:57 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blog RSS Generator Version 4.0.0.0 seniorsfeedhttp://feedburner.google.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~3/1qqnwQ7eCA4/On-Processing-a-Guardianship-Client-s-Death.aspx <img class="imageleftborder" alt="hands" src="/Portals/0/Uploads/Images/hands2_thumbnail.JPG" />I am a social work student at Simmons College. The JF&CS Guardianship Program was my first field placement.<div class="tags">Tags: Guardianship,geriatric care management</div><div class="category">Category: <a href=http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/CatID/15/Default.aspx>Seniors</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~4/1qqnwQ7eCA4" height="1" width="1"/> Seniors http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/223/On-Processing-a-Guardianship-Client-s-Death.aspx Tue, 01 May 2012 16:58:00 GMT http://www.jfcsboston.orgDesktopModules/BlogTrackback.aspx?id=223 Guardianship geriatric care management http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/223/On-Processing-a-Guardianship-Client-s-Death.aspx http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~3/_39cXrqUdnE/Let-All-Who-Are-Hungry-Come-and-Eat.aspx <img class="imageleftborder" alt="Sandy interpreting through sign language" src="/Portals/0/Uploads/Images/Friendly_Visitor_Seder_2012_thumbnail.JPG" />On the eve of the Exodus, Pharaoh asked Moses, “Who are the ones who will be leaving with you?,” and Moses replied, “We will <em>all</em> go, young and old.”<div class="tags">Tags: Friendly Visitor Program,Passover</div><div class="category">Category: <a href=http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/CatID/15/Default.aspx>Seniors</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~4/_39cXrqUdnE" height="1" width="1"/> Seniors http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/215/Let-All-Who-Are-Hungry-Come-and-Eat.aspx Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:39:00 GMT http://www.jfcsboston.orgDesktopModules/BlogTrackback.aspx?id=215 Friendly Visitor Program Passover http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/215/Let-All-Who-Are-Hungry-Come-and-Eat.aspx http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~3/xi7cexuuNqs/Hip-Club-for-Men.aspx <img class="imageleftborder" alt="hip x-ray" src="/Portals/0/Uploads/Images/hip_thumbnail.jpg" />Turning sixty was a huge disconnect with all other aspects of my identity. So, you can imagine how I took the news that I would need a total hip replacement.<div class="tags">Tags: VNA</div><div class="category">Category: <a href=http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/CatID/15/Default.aspx>Seniors</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~4/xi7cexuuNqs" height="1" width="1"/> Seniors http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/199/Hip-Club-for-Men.aspx Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:15:00 GMT http://www.jfcsboston.orgDesktopModules/BlogTrackback.aspx?id=199 VNA http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/199/Hip-Club-for-Men.aspx http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~3/pQ5iZxJeGOs/What-sort-of-miracles-have-you-experienced.aspx <img class="imageleftborder" alt="elder with MDA bear" src="/Portals/0/Uploads/Images/MDA_bear_thumbnail.JPG" />This was the question posed to a group of frail elders who attended our Sixth Annual Friendly Visitor Hanukkah Celebration.<div class="tags">Tags: Hanukkah,Friendly Visitor Program</div><div class="category">Category: <a href=http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/CatID/15/Default.aspx>Seniors</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~4/pQ5iZxJeGOs" height="1" width="1"/> Seniors http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/197/What-sort-of-miracles-have-you-experienced.aspx Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:50:00 GMT http://www.jfcsboston.orgDesktopModules/BlogTrackback.aspx?id=197 Hanukkah Friendly Visitor Program http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/197/What-sort-of-miracles-have-you-experienced.aspx http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~3/HZGxCndFAc8/How-Death-Changes-Us.aspx <img class="imageleftborder" alt="candlestick" src="/Portals/0/Uploads/Images/candlestick_thumbnail.JPG" />There is something about our jobs as geriatric care managers that pulls us into the lives of our clients so intimately that their deaths change us.<div class="tags">Tags: geriatric care management,Your Elder Experts</div><div class="category">Category: <a href=http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/CatID/15/Default.aspx>Seniors</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~4/HZGxCndFAc8" height="1" width="1"/> Seniors http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/194/How-Death-Changes-Us.aspx Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:29:00 GMT http://www.jfcsboston.orgDesktopModules/BlogTrackback.aspx?id=194 geriatric care management Your Elder Experts http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/194/How-Death-Changes-Us.aspx http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~3/mhKCtohUU-M/Finding-Light-in-Times-of-Darkness.aspx <img class="imageleftborder" alt="candle" src="/Portals/0/Uploads/Images/candle_thumbnail.jpg" />Most of us look forward to celebrating holidays with friends and family. But for those who are grieving a loss, the holiday can seem unbearably sad.<div class="tags">Tags: Hanukkah,geriatric care management</div><div class="category">Category: <a href=http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/CatID/15/Default.aspx>Seniors</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~4/mhKCtohUU-M" height="1" width="1"/> Seniors http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/191/Finding-Light-in-Times-of-Darkness.aspx Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:05:00 GMT http://www.jfcsboston.orgDesktopModules/BlogTrackback.aspx?id=191 Hanukkah geriatric care management http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/191/Finding-Light-in-Times-of-Darkness.aspx http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~3/dPDQxOQfvXs/JF-CS-on-WBUR.aspx <img class="imageleftborder" alt="WBUR logo" src="/Portals/0/Uploads/Images/WBUR_logo_thumbnail.jpg" />I heard the <em>Radio Boston</em> story about a man with Alzheimer’s who sings with the JF&CS Tremble Clefs choral group for people with Parkinson’s disease.<div class="tags">Tags: Tremble Clefs,Parkinson's disease,Parkinson's Family Support</div><div class="category">Category: <a href=http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/CatID/15/Default.aspx>Seniors</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~4/dPDQxOQfvXs" height="1" width="1"/> Seniors http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/173/JF-CS-on-WBUR.aspx Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:09:00 GMT http://www.jfcsboston.orgDesktopModules/BlogTrackback.aspx?id=173 Tremble Clefs Parkinson's disease Parkinson's Family Support http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/173/JF-CS-on-WBUR.aspx http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~3/kUWTzTtDNXI/Parkinson-s-Community-Quilt-Project.aspx <img alt="" class="imageleftborder" src="/Portals/0/Uploads/Images/Stepheny's%20square%2075x75.JPG" />“The morning cruise began with a sunny, clear sky and balmy warm wind on my boat. Receiving a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease threw me off course."<div class="tags">Tags: Parkinson's disease,Parkinson's Family Support</div><div class="category">Category: <a href=http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/CatID/15/Default.aspx>Seniors</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~4/kUWTzTtDNXI" height="1" width="1"/> Seniors http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/165/Parkinson-s-Community-Quilt-Project.aspx Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:48:00 GMT http://www.jfcsboston.orgDesktopModules/BlogTrackback.aspx?id=165 Parkinson's disease Parkinson's Family Support http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/165/Parkinson-s-Community-Quilt-Project.aspx http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~3/E-YvsrZzvME/The-Journey-of-Grief-During-the-Days-of-Awe.aspx <img alt="" class="imageleftborder" src="/Portals/0/Uploads/Images/reaching-out-thumbnail.jpg" />Miriam, a 24-year-old graduate student, tragically experienced the sudden death of her brother this past year.<div class="tags">Tags: Days of Awe</div><div class="category">Category: <a href=http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/CatID/15/Default.aspx>Seniors</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~4/E-YvsrZzvME" height="1" width="1"/> Seniors http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/163/The-Journey-of-Grief-During-the-Days-of-Awe.aspx Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:21:00 GMT http://www.jfcsboston.orgDesktopModules/BlogTrackback.aspx?id=163 Days of Awe http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/163/The-Journey-of-Grief-During-the-Days-of-Awe.aspx http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~3/rZH2X9j85og/Parkinson-s-Support-Group-for-Men.aspx <img alt="" class="imageleftborder" src="/Portals/0/Uploads/Images/Parkinsons_article_in_OT_journal_thumbnail.JPG" />A wonderful article was just published in a national OT journal about our Parkinson's Family Support program's summer men's group.<div class="tags">Tags: Parkinson's disease,Parkinson's Family Support</div><div class="category">Category: <a href=http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/CatID/15/Default.aspx>Seniors</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seniorsfeed/~4/rZH2X9j85og" height="1" width="1"/> Seniors http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/161/Parkinson-s-Support-Group-for-Men.aspx Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:49:00 GMT http://www.jfcsboston.orgDesktopModules/BlogTrackback.aspx?id=161 Parkinson's disease Parkinson's Family Support http://www.jfcsboston.org/DefaultPermissions/Blog/tabid/324/EntryId/161/Parkinson-s-Support-Group-for-Men.aspx