Home Care for the 21st Century

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Course: Adjustment, Resiliency and Transcendence in the Later Years

traffic-sign Course instructor Deborah Bier, PhD (photo, below right) has been a health care educator, author, and wellness coach for over 20 years. She holds a doctorate in therapeutic counseling, and has helped hundreds of individuals and families to live better with chronic illness and disability. She is the director of the Concord, MA office of Caring Companion Home Care. (www.CaringCompanion.Net) and has lived in Concord for 30 years.

deborahbierphoto-192x300 Middlesex Community College's MILES Program (Middlesex Institute for Lifelong Education for Seniors) offers intellectual stimulation, interaction, and friendship for adults ages 50+. Some of the topics explored through MILES include history, politics, arts, fitness, health, safety, music, computers, internet, travel, business, psychology, law, poetry and opera. Courses have no term papers, exams or grades, and are held at their Bedford campus. They are facilitated by individuals with expertise in topics based on professional, educational or personal experience. Semester membership fee of $95 includes access to all MILES courses. MILES is an afffiliate of the Elderhostel Institute Network.

For more information or to register, call 781-280-3570 or e-mail Chris Lindsey at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Find a list of all their courses here. To reach the instructor, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

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"Normal" Forgetfulness? Six Things to Consider

Note: The following was published in our monthly column "Living and Loving: Elder Care in the 21st Century" in Gate House News' Concord Journal

I'm middle-aged, and I go through this all the time: where are my house keys... purse... car in the parking lot? How did I forget those printouts for the meeting... to defrost tonight's dinner... to move the wet wash to the dryer before it gets moldy? Sometimes, I'm suddenly concerned I've forgotten an important meeting, but can't recall quickly what day of the week it is today -- much less when that appointment was to take place -- which sends me scrambling for my calendar.

Now, I was about to make an important point here, but I've forgotten what it was... darn! Looking above for reminders... oh, right!

We middle-aged people caring for parents, children, spouses, paid work, projects, community work, and somehow ourselves often become forgetful and distracted. Many of us worry that we are acting uncomfortably like our parents and other elders who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias. Do we have it, too?

CCHC Story Picked Up by the Concord (MA) Journal

Thanks to The Concord Journal for publishing a story about us in in today's edition. It's about how our Dr. Deborah Bier has become certified to teach the Alzheimer's Association's home care giver training course, and how vital it is to have trained caregivers for such patients. Read it here online.

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Free Dementia & Alzheimers Lecture Hopkinton, MA

Challenging Behaviors and the Dementia Patient

June 8, 2011, 8:00am–10:00am
50 W Main St, Hopkinton, MA
Golden Pond Assisted Living
50 W Main St, Hopkinton, MA 01748
Breakfast: 8 am
Presentation & Q&A: 8:30-10 am
RSVP to Golden Pond by June 6 at 508 435-1250

Sleep disturbances… resistance to care… suspiciousness… sundowning… hoarding… rummaging… These challenging behaviors can be frustrating, frightening, and exhausting for families and caregivers of dementia and alzheimers patients.

Challenging Behaviors and the Dementia Patient, May 17, Brighton, MA

5PM Reception -- 5:30PM Presentation • RSVP at 617 566-1700

Chestnut Park at Cleveland Circle • 50 Sutherland Road • Brighton, MA 02135

But there are effective, gentle methods for dealing with such behaviors. Through presentations, case studies and discussion, this event will help you develop some of the skills needed to achieve better outcomes with dementia patients.

Lincoln, Wayland, MA Lectures: What's New in Aging?

Dr. Deborah Bier (photo, right) from Caring Companion's metrowest Boston office is involved in several presentations coming up in the next few weeks that are open to the public. Click on "more info here" below to download a fuller description for each event.

Wayland, MA, Tuesday, April 6, 7 PM, Public Library: Part 2 of 2, "What's New in Aging?" Learn how the new challenges and opportunities of aging in the 21^st century can come together to benefit elders and those with disabilities. “21^st Century Caregiving: Essentials for Caring for a Disabled or Aging Loved One” is a free lecture and community service. (more info here ) REGISTER HERE

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Home Care for the 21st Century

Better Communications, Better Service, Better Quality of Life

Course: Adjustment, Resiliency and Transcendence in the Later Years

"Normal" Forgetfulness? Six Things to Consider

CCHC Story Picked Up by the Concord (MA) Journal

Free Dementia & Alzheimers Lecture Hopkinton, MA

Challenging Behaviors and the Dementia Patient

Challenging Behaviors and the Dementia Patient, May 17, Brighton, MA

Lincoln, Wayland, MA Lectures: What's New in Aging?

Dad's lost? There's an app for that!

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