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Judy’s Video Tip 14: Caring for Seniors During Moving Day

Caring for Seniors. Moving Day.

It’s been a while since Judy did a video tip. But as you can see, she is surrounded by boxes. She’s moving and thought it might good to use this opportunity to talk about caring for seniors during moving day.

Caring for Seniors. Moving Day.

Posted by Seniors Helping Seniors Southern NH & ME on Tuesday, May 9, 2017

 

Caring for Seniors During Moving Day

 

Moving is always an emotional experience, you can be stressed out by the amount of work you have to do, or maybe it’s the thought of going through everything from years of living. Judy admits to getting emotional while going through her children’s and her parent’s things. Now, imagine if you were being moved out of a house you lived in for 50 years. That’s a lot to deal with right?

Well, there are words to describe the physical and emotional toll that moving can cause, Relocation Stress Syndrome or Transfer Trauma.

The stress can cause change in blood pressure, change in appetite, depression, and anger. Sometimes when moving an elderly person, they don’t play a huge role, everyone else is making their decisions for them. This can make them feel even less independent than before. They lose their identity, especially when they move into a new community, no one knows who they are. To retell their story can be exhausting.

You can help ease this stress by talking to them, letting them in on the decisions. Make sure to bring things that will make them feel at home in their new home. Consider how often you or anyone can visit them. Could someone come in your stead to help ease the transition? Last but not least, try to support and be patient with them. It’s a hard time for you both.

You might be wondering about the teacup on Judy’s right, well that’s for Reagan. Judy plans on saving it for her.

In Home Health Care Temple NH

In Home Health Care Temple NH

Announcing Kim!

Kim

Kim

In Home Health Care Temple NH is proud to announce our new Caregiver, Erika!

Hometown:  I was born in Jacksonville, NC and currently live in Temple, NH.

Memorable Moment as a Caregiver:  I became an LNA at the early age of 18.  Part of my clinical training was to have one on one with a resident from the nursing home.  She was non-verbal but we made a connection.

Did you Know?I worked on a dairy farm on the weekends from the age of 6.  I trained the cows to let me ride them and began showing them at the county fairs. 

 In Home Health Care Temple NH Senior Services for Seniors by Seniors.

We all need a little help from time to time.

We know it’s hard to ask for help. But, getting senior services from a loving, caring, compassionate senior who really understands what life is about is the best of both worlds.

Our senior helpers can assist with all the things you need – hygiene assistance, housekeeping, cooking, shopping, mowing the lawn, getting you to the doctor, or even just changing a light bulb — and they provide at home senior care with love. That’s why we say it’s just like getting a little help from your friends.™

We personally match you with elder care companions who will fit your personality and needs. And, we work the way it works best for you. Our senior home care services are available for you every day, any hour of the week and even overnight.

What we have discovered is that the people who use our in home senior care services come to love the people who provide our elder care. It’s about getting the help and so much more – it’s about adding joy and companionship back into life. We hear over and over again from those who receive our senior in home care services that: we change people’s lives.™

We exclusively hire senior caregivers

When you search for senior care, you want to find someone who is truly going to care from their heart. Our elder care helpers get paid, but they are not providing senior care for the income. Many of our home helpers were looking for volunteer opportunities when they found Seniors Helping Seniors. Most of our home care seniors provided senior home care for their own parents and saw them through all of the stages of later life, including Alzheimer’s care, incontinence, wandering, elderly transportation, etc. They learned elder care first hand, in their parent’s home, in their own homes, at the assisted living center, at the memory care unit, and at the hospital, at the hospice center and then back home for the last several months of life. They understand the need for respite care, because they used respite services themselves. And they understand the emotion involved in choosing to hire senior home care, knowing they couldn’t provide all the home elder care themselves.

Senior Care

Senior Care for Seniors by Seniors!

Our senior helpers know senior care–but more than that–they know how to give of their heart. Geriatric care is not a job for our seniors–it is a way to give. To give something a younger person cannot: a lifetime of experience in understanding others. Our senior helpers know what you are going through as a daughter or son. They know what your parent is going through, and they want to spend their retirement years being a joy to others. For them it is a way of giving and receiving.

Do you need Senior Care? Answer these questions to find out.

Do you have low motivation, a lack of energy, and/or physical problems?

Is your family worried about you falling?

Do you have difficulty keeping up with the daily chores around your home? House cleaning? Cooking? Changing linens?

Could you use assistance getting to the doctor? Or to the store?

Would you welcome help on the outside of your home such as gardening, shoveling, maintenance?

If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, it is worth talking to someone from Seniors Helping Seniors in-home services. Just ask for a free evaluation.

 Call us: 603-801-1936 (or) Email us: judy@shs-nh.com

 

It was personal experience with their own parents that led friends and business partners, Judy and Randy Loubier and Ben and Nancy Paquin to start Seniors Helping Seniors senior care services, serving the Seacoast and Southern New Hampshire. “My mother was living in Florida and underwent surgery to remove half of her right lung. Three weeks after her recovery she suffered a stroke,” shared Judy. “I was on the airplane heading home from Florida praying, ‘God, how am I going to care for my aging parents?’ That is when I opened the airplane magazine and saw an advertisement for Seniors Helping Seniors services. It felt like my prayers had been answered in more ways than one.”

Senior Services

Seniors Helping Seniors Serving the Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire

 

“Between the four of us we have been through almost every major situation you can face in caring for a parent,” said Ben. He recounted the times that he and his business partners have provided or found senior care for their parents: from close and long distance, set up hospice, used assisted living, long-term care, set up their parents’ homes to meet their special needs and made their own home a senior care home. “All through those experiences,” he added, “we wanted to support our parents in their independence and dignity and to optimize their quality of life.”

Through it all, they experienced the full range of emotions from fear and guilt, to concern and joy, he added. “We were the adult child, the caregiver, the senior, the son or daughter and the decision-maker.” These experiences, together with a common bond in faith and careers in helping others, brought the partners close together and resulted in a commitment to starting Seniors Helping Seniors of Seacoast and Southern New Hampshire.

“We truly believe that the best caregivers are those with a lifetime of their own tragedy, struggles and joys,” said Randy. “The best person to care for a senior is a senior. When we share our vulnerabilities, our aches and pains, our disappointments in not being able to do the same things as when we were young, we need genuine empathy not just a sympathetic nod. Likewise when we share stories of our youth, former careers and grandchildren, we want to talk with someone who understands, because they, too, have their own lifetime of victories and defeats.”

“We chose to start Seniors Helping Seniors of Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire senior care because of the emphasis on finding loving, caring, compassionate providers. Anything less is not what we want for our parents, and not what we want for ourselves,” he added.

As the name implies, Seniors Helping Seniors exclusively hires seniors as senior caregivers to provide care for elderly clients. Some have extensive backgrounds in Alzheimer’s care and dementia care, a common reason to ask for senior care. Their background often doesn’t come from a textbook or a classroom—it comes from direct senior care to their own parents, friends and volunteer experiences. Seniors are uniquely qualified to care for Alzheimer’s and dementia clients—they have a lifetime of practicing patience, and they have no other pressing concerns to run away to after “work.” For our senior caregivers, this isn’t a job (they do get paid) but they are there because they truly want to give of their heart.

Seniors Helping Seniors offers non-medical home care for senior clients, including but not limited to:

Provide Senior Care

Senior Care

Hygiene Assistance, Cooking, Light housekeeping, Companionship, Personal grooming and dressing, Shopping, Doctor visits, Transportation, Yard work, Mobility assistance, House maintenance and small repairs, Overnight stays (24-hour care), Long-distance check-ins, Respite care, Alzheimer/Dementia care

Seniors Helping Seniors is a senior care company licensed through the Department of Health and Human Services with the State of NH.

They can be reached at 603-801-1936, judy@shs-nh.com, or www.seniorshelpingseniorsnh.com.

Also, if you are in need of other types of senior services (eg: Elder Care Attorney) in or near Temple NH, try our Resource Guide.

Entering Into Assisted Living

Entering Into Assisted Living

This week Judy and Rich discuss the ins and outs of entering into assisted living. As a senior it can be very difficult to go from your own home to someplace new where you have less independence. For family members, it can be difficult to help ease the transition for their parent. For some, they have to enter assisted living because their home can’t be modified enough to keep them safe, for others, it’s location. They might be too far from friends, family, and places they need to go.

Entering Into Assisted Living

Entering Into Assisted Living

 

If the move is too quick, it can cause confusion and anger from the senior being moved. Like Rich said, it’s like a plant getting uprooted. They want to feel like they are part of the decision to move.

Even the process of packing can become very emotional. It’s important to remember they are going through 50 or 60 years of memories and have to decide what stays and what goes. Moving can even cause Relocation Stress Syndrome or Transfer Trauma and even a form of identity theft when they move.

All they have is their name, there aren’t memories of how they lived their life, how many kids they have, and they stop feeling like an individual. They lose their story and to retell it can be exhausting.

There are changes that can happen in the beginning of the move, there can be sleeplessness, increase rate of pain, anger and irritability, anxiety, and weight gain or loss.

Sometimes no matter how much money a community spends on food, there will be complaints about the food. It may be because taste buds change, but other times it’s just because they are unhappy about their situation. Meals are important because it becomes part of their daily routine, and can help them make them feel more at home.

To reduce the anxiety with the move, bring them into the decisions: take them to communities. Check out meals. Ask the communities how they can minimize identity theft, see what works for your parents specifically. Visit on schedule tours and visit by surprise to see what it’s like when they no one knows you are coming.

Home Health Care Lee, NH

 

Announcing Karen!

Karen

Karen

Home Health Care Lee, NH is proud to announce our new Caregiver, Karen!

Hometown:  I was born in Providence, RI  and currently live in Lee, NH

Memorable Moment as a Caregiver:  I cared for a dear friend while she was in the hospital recovering from a severe car accident with a moose.  It really blessed me to be able to stay with her and help her through such a difficult time.

Did you Know?I enjoy shabby chic decour.

Home Health Care Lee NH Senior Services for Seniors by Seniors.

We all need a little help from time to time.

We know it’s hard to ask for help. But, getting senior services from a loving, caring, compassionate senior who really understands what life is about is the best of both worlds.

Our senior helpers can assist with all the things you need – hygiene assistance, housekeeping, cooking, shopping, mowing the lawn, getting you to the doctor, or even just changing a light bulb — and they provide at home senior care with love. That’s why we say it’s just like getting a little help from your friends.™

We personally match you with elder care companions who will fit your personality and needs. And, we work the way it works best for you. Our senior home care services are available for you every day, any hour of the week and even overnight.

What we have discovered is that the people who use our in home senior care services come to love the people who provide our elder care. It’s about getting the help and so much more – it’s about adding joy and companionship back into life. We hear over and over again from those who receive our senior in home care services that: we change people’s lives.™

We exclusively hire senior caregivers

When you search for senior care, you want to find someone who is truly going to care from their heart. Our elder care helpers get paid, but they are not providing senior care for the income. Many of our home helpers were looking for volunteer opportunities when they found Seniors Helping Seniors. Most of our home care seniors provided senior home care for their own parents and saw them through all of the stages of later life, including Alzheimer’s care, incontinence, wandering, elderly transportation, etc. They learned elder care first hand, in their parent’s home, in their own homes, at the assisted living center, at the memory care unit, and at the hospital, at the hospice center and then back home for the last several months of life. They understand the need for respite care, because they used respite services themselves. And they understand the emotion involved in choosing to hire senior home care, knowing they couldn’t provide all the home elder care themselves.

Senior Care

Senior Care for Seniors by Seniors!

Our senior helpers know senior care–but more than that–they know how to give of their heart. Geriatric care is not a job for our seniors–it is a way to give. To give something a younger person cannot: a lifetime of experience in understanding others. Our senior helpers know what you are going through as a daughter or son. They know what your parent is going through, and they want to spend their retirement years being a joy to others. For them it is a way of giving and receiving.

Do you need Senior Care? Answer these questions to find out.

Do you have low motivation, a lack of energy, and/or physical problems?

Is your family worried about you falling?

Do you have difficulty keeping up with the daily chores around your home? House cleaning? Cooking? Changing linens?

Could you use assistance getting to the doctor? Or to the store?

Would you welcome help on the outside of your home such as gardening, shoveling, maintenance?

If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, it is worth talking to someone from Seniors Helping Seniors in-home services. Just ask for a free evaluation.

 Call us: 603-801-1936 (or) Email us: judy@shs-nh.com

 

It was personal experience with their own parents that led friends and business partners, Judy and Randy Loubier and Ben and Nancy Paquin to start Seniors Helping Seniors senior care services, serving the Seacoast and Southern New Hampshire. “My mother was living in Florida and underwent surgery to remove half of her right lung. Three weeks after her recovery she suffered a stroke,” shared Judy. “I was on the airplane heading home from Florida praying, ‘God, how am I going to care for my aging parents?’ That is when I opened the airplane magazine and saw an advertisement for Seniors Helping Seniors services. It felt like my prayers had been answered in more ways than one.”

Senior Services

Seniors Helping Seniors Serving the Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire

 

“Between the four of us we have been through almost every major situation you can face in caring for a parent,” said Ben. He recounted the times that he and his business partners have provided or found senior care for their parents: from close and long distance, set up hospice, used assisted living, long-term care, set up their parents’ homes to meet their special needs and made their own home a senior care home. “All through those experiences,” he added, “we wanted to support our parents in their independence and dignity and to optimize their quality of life.”

Through it all, they experienced the full range of emotions from fear and guilt, to concern and joy, he added. “We were the adult child, the caregiver, the senior, the son or daughter and the decision-maker.” These experiences, together with a common bond in faith and careers in helping others, brought the partners close together and resulted in a commitment to starting Seniors Helping Seniors of Seacoast and Southern New Hampshire.

“We truly believe that the best caregivers are those with a lifetime of their own tragedy, struggles and joys,” said Randy. “The best person to care for a senior is a senior. When we share our vulnerabilities, our aches and pains, our disappointments in not being able to do the same things as when we were young, we need genuine empathy not just a sympathetic nod. Likewise when we share stories of our youth, former careers and grandchildren, we want to talk with someone who understands, because they, too, have their own lifetime of victories and defeats.”

“We chose to start Seniors Helping Seniors of Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire senior care because of the emphasis on finding loving, caring, compassionate providers. Anything less is not what we want for our parents, and not what we want for ourselves,” he added.

As the name implies, Seniors Helping Seniors exclusively hires seniors as senior caregivers to provide care for elderly clients. Some have extensive backgrounds in Alzheimer’s care and dementia care, a common reason to ask for senior care. Their background often doesn’t come from a textbook or a classroom—it comes from direct senior care to their own parents, friends and volunteer experiences. Seniors are uniquely qualified to care for Alzheimer’s and dementia clients—they have a lifetime of practicing patience, and they have no other pressing concerns to run away to after “work.” For our senior caregivers, this isn’t a job (they do get paid) but they are there because they truly want to give of their heart.

Seniors Helping Seniors offers non-medical home care for senior clients, including but not limited to:

Provide Senior Care

Senior Care

Hygiene Assistance, Cooking, Light housekeeping, Companionship, Personal grooming and dressing, Shopping, Doctor visits, Transportation, Yard work, Mobility assistance, House maintenance and small repairs, Overnight stays (24-hour care), Long-distance check-ins, Respite care, Alzheimer/Dementia care

Seniors Helping Seniors is a senior care company licensed through the Department of Health and Human Services with the State of NH.

They can be reached at 603-801-1936, judy@shs-nh.com, or www.seniorshelpingseniorsnh.com.

Also, if you are in need of other types of senior services (eg: Elder Care Attorney) in or near Lee, NH, try our Resource Guide.

Home Health Care Goffstown, NH

 

Announcing Noemy!

Noemy

Noemy

Home Health Care Goffstown, NH is proud to announce our new Caregiver, Noemy!

Hometown:  I was born in El Slvador  and currently live in Goffstown, NH

Memorable Moment as a Caregiver:  I cared for a client for about 10 years  until she passed away.  I saw her as a family member and still visit her at the cemetery.  I love what I do!

Did you Know?I love to cook and do puzzles.

Home Health Care Goffstown NH Senior Services for Seniors by Seniors.

We all need a little help from time to time.

We know it’s hard to ask for help. But, getting senior services from a loving, caring, compassionate senior who really understands what life is about is the best of both worlds.

Our senior helpers can assist with all the things you need – hygiene assistance, housekeeping, cooking, shopping, mowing the lawn, getting you to the doctor, or even just changing a light bulb — and they provide at home senior care with love. That’s why we say it’s just like getting a little help from your friends.™

We personally match you with elder care companions who will fit your personality and needs. And, we work the way it works best for you. Our senior home care services are available for you every day, any hour of the week and even overnight.

What we have discovered is that the people who use our in home senior care services come to love the people who provide our elder care. It’s about getting the help and so much more – it’s about adding joy and companionship back into life. We hear over and over again from those who receive our senior in home care services that: we change people’s lives.™

We exclusively hire senior caregivers

When you search for senior care, you want to find someone who is truly going to care from their heart. Our elder care helpers get paid, but they are not providing senior care for the income. Many of our home helpers were looking for volunteer opportunities when they found Seniors Helping Seniors. Most of our home care seniors provided senior home care for their own parents and saw them through all of the stages of later life, including Alzheimer’s care, incontinence, wandering, elderly transportation, etc. They learned elder care first hand, in their parent’s home, in their own homes, at the assisted living center, at the memory care unit, and at the hospital, at the hospice center and then back home for the last several months of life. They understand the need for respite care, because they used respite services themselves. And they understand the emotion involved in choosing to hire senior home care, knowing they couldn’t provide all the home elder care themselves.

Senior Care

Senior Care for Seniors by Seniors!

Our senior helpers know senior care–but more than that–they know how to give of their heart. Geriatric care is not a job for our seniors–it is a way to give. To give something a younger person cannot: a lifetime of experience in understanding others. Our senior helpers know what you are going through as a daughter or son. They know what your parent is going through, and they want to spend their retirement years being a joy to others. For them it is a way of giving and receiving.

Do you need Senior Care? Answer these questions to find out.

Do you have low motivation, a lack of energy, and/or physical problems?

Is your family worried about you falling?

Do you have difficulty keeping up with the daily chores around your home? House cleaning? Cooking? Changing linens?

Could you use assistance getting to the doctor? Or to the store?

Would you welcome help on the outside of your home such as gardening, shoveling, maintenance?

If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, it is worth talking to someone from Seniors Helping Seniors in-home services. Just ask for a free evaluation.

 Call us: 603-801-1936 (or) Email us: judy@shs-nh.com

 

It was personal experience with their own parents that led friends and business partners, Judy and Randy Loubier and Ben and Nancy Paquin to start Seniors Helping Seniors senior care services, serving the Seacoast and Southern New Hampshire. “My mother was living in Florida and underwent surgery to remove half of her right lung. Three weeks after her recovery she suffered a stroke,” shared Judy. “I was on the airplane heading home from Florida praying, ‘God, how am I going to care for my aging parents?’ That is when I opened the airplane magazine and saw an advertisement for Seniors Helping Seniors services. It felt like my prayers had been answered in more ways than one.”

Senior Services

Seniors Helping Seniors Serving the Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire

 

“Between the four of us we have been through almost every major situation you can face in caring for a parent,” said Ben. He recounted the times that he and his business partners have provided or found senior care for their parents: from close and long distance, set up hospice, used assisted living, long-term care, set up their parents’ homes to meet their special needs and made their own home a senior care home. “All through those experiences,” he added, “we wanted to support our parents in their independence and dignity and to optimize their quality of life.”

Through it all, they experienced the full range of emotions from fear and guilt, to concern and joy, he added. “We were the adult child, the caregiver, the senior, the son or daughter and the decision-maker.” These experiences, together with a common bond in faith and careers in helping others, brought the partners close together and resulted in a commitment to starting Seniors Helping Seniors of Seacoast and Southern New Hampshire.

“We truly believe that the best caregivers are those with a lifetime of their own tragedy, struggles and joys,” said Randy. “The best person to care for a senior is a senior. When we share our vulnerabilities, our aches and pains, our disappointments in not being able to do the same things as when we were young, we need genuine empathy not just a sympathetic nod. Likewise when we share stories of our youth, former careers and grandchildren, we want to talk with someone who understands, because they, too, have their own lifetime of victories and defeats.”

“We chose to start Seniors Helping Seniors of Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire senior care because of the emphasis on finding loving, caring, compassionate providers. Anything less is not what we want for our parents, and not what we want for ourselves,” he added.

As the name implies, Seniors Helping Seniors exclusively hires seniors as senior caregivers to provide care for elderly clients. Some have extensive backgrounds in Alzheimer’s care and dementia care, a common reason to ask for senior care. Their background often doesn’t come from a textbook or a classroom—it comes from direct senior care to their own parents, friends and volunteer experiences. Seniors are uniquely qualified to care for Alzheimer’s and dementia clients—they have a lifetime of practicing patience, and they have no other pressing concerns to run away to after “work.” For our senior caregivers, this isn’t a job (they do get paid) but they are there because they truly want to give of their heart.

Seniors Helping Seniors offers non-medical home care for senior clients, including but not limited to:

Provide Senior Care

Senior Care

Hygiene Assistance, Cooking, Light housekeeping, Companionship, Personal grooming and dressing, Shopping, Doctor visits, Transportation, Yard work, Mobility assistance, House maintenance and small repairs, Overnight stays (24-hour care), Long-distance check-ins, Respite care, Alzheimer/Dementia care

Seniors Helping Seniors is a senior care company licensed through the Department of Health and Human Services with the State of NH.

They can be reached at 603-801-1936, judy@shs-nh.com, or www.seniorshelpingseniorsnh.com.

Also, if you are in need of other types of senior services (eg: Elder Care Attorney) in or near Goffstown, NH, try our Resource Guide.

Judy’s Video Tip 13: Getting to Know the Person You are Caring For

Judy's Video Tip 13: Getting to Know the Person You are Caring For

Judy’s Video Tip 13: Getting to Know the Person You are Caring For is all about how to start a conversation. Sometimes it can feel difficult to connect to someone when they are much older than us.

Getting to know you. Housekeeping in the 1950's.

Posted by Seniors Helping Seniors Southern NH & ME on Sunday, April 23, 2017

Getting to Know the Person You are Caring For

 

If they are our parents, we might think we heard all the stories. If they are born in the 1930s, they might have been dressed like Judy as they are waiting for their husband to come home. It doesn’t matter what they did, it’s important that we learn to connect with them. We need to understand what the world was like when they were growing up, raising a family, working because it affects their personality. If you learn enough to start a conversation, then it will be easier to care for them.

Check out Judy’s other videos here and here.

Story Time with Judy

Story Time with Judy: Take My Hand

This week’s segment is story time with Judy. Judy shared a story she wrote and read at the first annual Storytelling Festival at New Hampshire Institute of Art. The story titled “Take My Hand” was about caregiving and the power of helping out.

Story Time with Judy

Story Time with Judy

 

It opens about Danny, Judy’s son, going to college in Montana. Judy had no idea that he had applied to any colleges. Before you think Judy not involved enough, she was there with Danny every step of the way. She cheered for him, cried for him, did the parental threatening.

When Judy and Randy went to visit Danny in Montana. There was a small dusting of snow but that didn’t stop them from bouldering. Judy was the third in line of their group and right when she was near the top, she got stuck.

She couldn’t go up or down. Danny reached down and said, “Mom, take my hand.” Judy realized that her son is all grown up.

In 2013, Judy became her parents primary caregiver. She went with them to the doctors, ran errands, held their hands. Similar to Danny, Judy encouraged and cheered for her parents with every sign of independence.

Her parent’s were thankful for the assistance. Knowing when the right time to extend a helping hand is key. Too early and it’s rejected, too late might result in not getting to the top of that mountain.

When you are ready to accept the responsibility of becoming a caregiver for a senior, remember that timing is everything. And, don’t forget the power of offering a helping hand.

Elderly Health Care Hampton NH

 

Announcing Gary!

Gary

Gary

Elderly Health Care Hampton NH is proud to announce Gary!

Hometown:  I was born in Franklin, NH and currently live in Hampton, NH.

Memorable Moment as a Caregiver:  I had fishing trips with Dad in his late 70s, until his leaving.  Being a senior myself, I see the need and will need assistance myself in the future, I’m sure.

Did you Know? I traveled overseas while in the service to Lisbon, Taniers, among others.

Elderly Health Care Hampton NH Senior Services for Seniors by Seniors.

We all need a little help from time to time.

We know it’s hard to ask for help. But, getting senior services from a loving, caring, compassionate senior who really understands what life is about is the best of both worlds.

Our senior helpers can assist with all the things you need – hygiene assistance, housekeeping, cooking, shopping, mowing the lawn, getting you to the doctor, or even just changing a light bulb — and they provide at home senior care with love. That’s why we say it’s just like getting a little help from your friends.™

We personally match you with elder care companions who will fit your personality and needs. And, we work the way it works best for you. Our senior home care services are available for you every day, any hour of the week and even overnight.

What we have discovered is that the people who use our in home senior care services come to love the people who provide our elder care. It’s about getting the help and so much more – it’s about adding joy and companionship back into life. We hear over and over again from those who receive our senior in home care services that: we change people’s lives.™

We exclusively hire senior caregivers

When you search for senior care, you want to find someone who is truly going to care from their heart. Our elder care helpers get paid, but they are not providing senior care for the income. Many of our home helpers were looking for volunteer opportunities when they found Seniors Helping Seniors. Most of our home care seniors provided senior home care for their own parents and saw them through all of the stages of later life, including Alzheimer’s care, incontinence, wandering, elderly transportation, etc. They learned elder care first hand, in their parent’s home, in their own homes, at the assisted living center, at the memory care unit, and at the hospital, at the hospice center and then back home for the last several months of life. They understand the need for respite care, because they used respite services themselves. And they understand the emotion involved in choosing to hire senior home care, knowing they couldn’t provide all the home elder care themselves.

Senior Care

Senior Care for Seniors by Seniors!

Our senior helpers know senior care–but more than that–they know how to give of their heart. Geriatric care is not a job for our seniors–it is a way to give. To give something a younger person cannot: a lifetime of experience in understanding others. Our senior helpers know what you are going through as a daughter or son. They know what your parent is going through, and they want to spend their retirement years being a joy to others. For them it is a way of giving and receiving.

Do you need Senior Care? Answer these questions to find out.

Do you have low motivation, a lack of energy, and/or physical problems?

Is your family worried about you falling?

Do you have difficulty keeping up with the daily chores around your home? House cleaning? Cooking? Changing linens?

Could you use assistance getting to the doctor? Or to the store?

Would you welcome help on the outside of your home such as gardening, shoveling, maintenance?

If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, it is worth talking to someone from Seniors Helping Seniors in-home services. Just ask for a free evaluation.

 Call us: 603-801-1936 (or) Email us: judy@shs-nh.com

 

It was personal experience with their own parents that led friends and business partners, Judy and Randy Loubier and Ben and Nancy Paquin to start Seniors Helping Seniors senior care services, serving the Seacoast and Southern New Hampshire. “My mother was living in Florida and underwent surgery to remove half of her right lung. Three weeks after her recovery she suffered a stroke,” shared Judy. “I was on the airplane heading home from Florida praying, ‘God, how am I going to care for my aging parents?’ That is when I opened the airplane magazine and saw an advertisement for Seniors Helping Seniors services. It felt like my prayers had been answered in more ways than one.”

Senior Services

Seniors Helping Seniors Serving the Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire

 

“Between the four of us we have been through almost every major situation you can face in caring for a parent,” said Ben. He recounted the times that he and his business partners have provided or found senior care for their parents: from close and long distance, set up hospice, used assisted living, long-term care, set up their parents’ homes to meet their special needs and made their own home a senior care home. “All through those experiences,” he added, “we wanted to support our parents in their independence and dignity and to optimize their quality of life.”

Through it all, they experienced the full range of emotions from fear and guilt, to concern and joy, he added. “We were the adult child, the caregiver, the senior, the son or daughter and the decision-maker.” These experiences, together with a common bond in faith and careers in helping others, brought the partners close together and resulted in a commitment to starting Seniors Helping Seniors of Seacoast and Southern New Hampshire.

“We truly believe that the best caregivers are those with a lifetime of their own tragedy, struggles and joys,” said Randy. “The best person to care for a senior is a senior. When we share our vulnerabilities, our aches and pains, our disappointments in not being able to do the same things as when we were young, we need genuine empathy not just a sympathetic nod. Likewise when we share stories of our youth, former careers and grandchildren, we want to talk with someone who understands, because they, too, have their own lifetime of victories and defeats.”

“We chose to start Seniors Helping Seniors of Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire senior care because of the emphasis on finding loving, caring, compassionate providers. Anything less is not what we want for our parents, and not what we want for ourselves,” he added.

As the name implies, Seniors Helping Seniors exclusively hires seniors as senior caregivers to provide care for elderly clients. Some have extensive backgrounds in Alzheimer’s care and dementia care, a common reason to ask for senior care. Their background often doesn’t come from a textbook or a classroom—it comes from direct senior care to their own parents, friends and volunteer experiences. Seniors are uniquely qualified to care for Alzheimer’s and dementia clients—they have a lifetime of practicing patience, and they have no other pressing concerns to run away to after “work.” For our senior caregivers, this isn’t a job (they do get paid) but they are there because they truly want to give of their heart.

Seniors Helping Seniors offers non-medical home care for senior clients, including but not limited to:

Provide Senior Care

Senior Care

Hygiene Assistance, Cooking, Light housekeeping, Companionship, Personal grooming and dressing, Shopping, Doctor visits, Transportation, Yard work, Mobility assistance, House maintenance and small repairs, Overnight stays (24-hour care), Long-distance check-ins, Respite care, Alzheimer/Dementia care

Seniors Helping Seniors is a senior care company licensed through the Department of Health and Human Services with the State of NH.

They can be reached at 603-801-1936, judy@shs-nh.com, or www.seniorshelpingseniorsnh.com.

Also, if you are in need of other types of senior services (eg: Elder Care Attorney) in or near Hampton, NH try our Resource Guide.

Home Health Care Alexandria, NH

 

Announcing Sue!

Sue

Sue

Home Health Care Alexandria, NH is proud to announce our new Caregiver, Sue!

Hometown:  I was born in Fall River, MA  and currently live in Alexandria, NH

Memorable Moment as a Caregiver:  I cared for a 93 year old woman in a small town in Ohio who was a pillar in the community.  I worked 20 hours a day, 6 days a week.  I took her many places, out to eat etc.

Did you Know?I love to ride motorcycles and have adventures.

Home Health Care Alexandria NH Senior Services for Seniors by Seniors.

We all need a little help from time to time.

We know it’s hard to ask for help. But, getting senior services from a loving, caring, compassionate senior who really understands what life is about is the best of both worlds.

Our senior helpers can assist with all the things you need – hygiene assistance, housekeeping, cooking, shopping, mowing the lawn, getting you to the doctor, or even just changing a light bulb — and they provide at home senior care with love. That’s why we say it’s just like getting a little help from your friends.™

We personally match you with elder care companions who will fit your personality and needs. And, we work the way it works best for you. Our senior home care services are available for you every day, any hour of the week and even overnight.

What we have discovered is that the people who use our in home senior care services come to love the people who provide our elder care. It’s about getting the help and so much more – it’s about adding joy and companionship back into life. We hear over and over again from those who receive our senior in home care services that: we change people’s lives.™

We exclusively hire senior caregivers

When you search for senior care, you want to find someone who is truly going to care from their heart. Our elder care helpers get paid, but they are not providing senior care for the income. Many of our home helpers were looking for volunteer opportunities when they found Seniors Helping Seniors. Most of our home care seniors provided senior home care for their own parents and saw them through all of the stages of later life, including Alzheimer’s care, incontinence, wandering, elderly transportation, etc. They learned elder care first hand, in their parent’s home, in their own homes, at the assisted living center, at the memory care unit, and at the hospital, at the hospice center and then back home for the last several months of life. They understand the need for respite care, because they used respite services themselves. And they understand the emotion involved in choosing to hire senior home care, knowing they couldn’t provide all the home elder care themselves.

Senior Care

Senior Care for Seniors by Seniors!

Our senior helpers know senior care–but more than that–they know how to give of their heart. Geriatric care is not a job for our seniors–it is a way to give. To give something a younger person cannot: a lifetime of experience in understanding others. Our senior helpers know what you are going through as a daughter or son. They know what your parent is going through, and they want to spend their retirement years being a joy to others. For them it is a way of giving and receiving.

Do you need Senior Care? Answer these questions to find out.

Do you have low motivation, a lack of energy, and/or physical problems?

Is your family worried about you falling?

Do you have difficulty keeping up with the daily chores around your home? House cleaning? Cooking? Changing linens?

Could you use assistance getting to the doctor? Or to the store?

Would you welcome help on the outside of your home such as gardening, shoveling, maintenance?

If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, it is worth talking to someone from Seniors Helping Seniors in-home services. Just ask for a free evaluation.

 Call us: 603-801-1936 (or) Email us: judy@shs-nh.com

 

It was personal experience with their own parents that led friends and business partners, Judy and Randy Loubier and Ben and Nancy Paquin to start Seniors Helping Seniors senior care services, serving the Seacoast and Southern New Hampshire. “My mother was living in Florida and underwent surgery to remove half of her right lung. Three weeks after her recovery she suffered a stroke,” shared Judy. “I was on the airplane heading home from Florida praying, ‘God, how am I going to care for my aging parents?’ That is when I opened the airplane magazine and saw an advertisement for Seniors Helping Seniors services. It felt like my prayers had been answered in more ways than one.”

Senior Services

Seniors Helping Seniors Serving the Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire

 

“Between the four of us we have been through almost every major situation you can face in caring for a parent,” said Ben. He recounted the times that he and his business partners have provided or found senior care for their parents: from close and long distance, set up hospice, used assisted living, long-term care, set up their parents’ homes to meet their special needs and made their own home a senior care home. “All through those experiences,” he added, “we wanted to support our parents in their independence and dignity and to optimize their quality of life.”

Through it all, they experienced the full range of emotions from fear and guilt, to concern and joy, he added. “We were the adult child, the caregiver, the senior, the son or daughter and the decision-maker.” These experiences, together with a common bond in faith and careers in helping others, brought the partners close together and resulted in a commitment to starting Seniors Helping Seniors of Seacoast and Southern New Hampshire.

“We truly believe that the best caregivers are those with a lifetime of their own tragedy, struggles and joys,” said Randy. “The best person to care for a senior is a senior. When we share our vulnerabilities, our aches and pains, our disappointments in not being able to do the same things as when we were young, we need genuine empathy not just a sympathetic nod. Likewise when we share stories of our youth, former careers and grandchildren, we want to talk with someone who understands, because they, too, have their own lifetime of victories and defeats.”

“We chose to start Seniors Helping Seniors of Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire senior care because of the emphasis on finding loving, caring, compassionate providers. Anything less is not what we want for our parents, and not what we want for ourselves,” he added.

As the name implies, Seniors Helping Seniors exclusively hires seniors as senior caregivers to provide care for elderly clients. Some have extensive backgrounds in Alzheimer’s care and dementia care, a common reason to ask for senior care. Their background often doesn’t come from a textbook or a classroom—it comes from direct senior care to their own parents, friends and volunteer experiences. Seniors are uniquely qualified to care for Alzheimer’s and dementia clients—they have a lifetime of practicing patience, and they have no other pressing concerns to run away to after “work.” For our senior caregivers, this isn’t a job (they do get paid) but they are there because they truly want to give of their heart.

Seniors Helping Seniors offers non-medical home care for senior clients, including but not limited to:

Provide Senior Care

Senior Care

Hygiene Assistance, Cooking, Light housekeeping, Companionship, Personal grooming and dressing, Shopping, Doctor visits, Transportation, Yard work, Mobility assistance, House maintenance and small repairs, Overnight stays (24-hour care), Long-distance check-ins, Respite care, Alzheimer/Dementia care

Seniors Helping Seniors is a senior care company licensed through the Department of Health and Human Services with the State of NH.

They can be reached at 603-801-1936, judy@shs-nh.com, or www.seniorshelpingseniorsnh.com.

Also, if you are in need of other types of senior services (eg: Elder Care Attorney) in or near Alexandria, NH, try our Resource Guide.

Elderly Health Care Milford NH

 

Announcing Carletta

Carletta

Carletta

Elderly Health Care Milford NH is proud to announce Carletta!

Hometown:  I was born in Tampa FL and currently live in Milford NH.

Memorable Moment as a Caregiver:  I got to know Judy thru her parents whom I served in the dining room at the facility they lived.  I like to make other laugh and smile.

Did you Know? I snow-shoed for the first time last year.

Elderly Health Care Milford NH Senior Services for Seniors by Seniors.

We all need a little help from time to time.

We know it’s hard to ask for help. But, getting senior services from a loving, caring, compassionate senior who really understands what life is about is the best of both worlds.

Our senior helpers can assist with all the things you need – hygiene assistance, housekeeping, cooking, shopping, mowing the lawn, getting you to the doctor, or even just changing a light bulb — and they provide at home senior care with love. That’s why we say it’s just like getting a little help from your friends.™

We personally match you with elder care companions who will fit your personality and needs. And, we work the way it works best for you. Our senior home care services are available for you every day, any hour of the week and even overnight.

What we have discovered is that the people who use our in home senior care services come to love the people who provide our elder care. It’s about getting the help and so much more – it’s about adding joy and companionship back into life. We hear over and over again from those who receive our senior in home care services that: we change people’s lives.™

We exclusively hire senior caregivers

When you search for senior care, you want to find someone who is truly going to care from their heart. Our elder care helpers get paid, but they are not providing senior care for the income. Many of our home helpers were looking for volunteer opportunities when they found Seniors Helping Seniors. Most of our home care seniors provided senior home care for their own parents and saw them through all of the stages of later life, including Alzheimer’s care, incontinence, wandering, elderly transportation, etc. They learned elder care first hand, in their parent’s home, in their own homes, at the assisted living center, at the memory care unit, and at the hospital, at the hospice center and then back home for the last several months of life. They understand the need for respite care, because they used respite services themselves. And they understand the emotion involved in choosing to hire senior home care, knowing they couldn’t provide all the home elder care themselves.

Senior Care

Senior Care for Seniors by Seniors!

Our senior helpers know senior care–but more than that–they know how to give of their heart. Geriatric care is not a job for our seniors–it is a way to give. To give something a younger person cannot: a lifetime of experience in understanding others. Our senior helpers know what you are going through as a daughter or son. They know what your parent is going through, and they want to spend their retirement years being a joy to others. For them it is a way of giving and receiving.

Do you need Senior Care? Answer these questions to find out.

Do you have low motivation, a lack of energy, and/or physical problems?

Is your family worried about you falling?

Do you have difficulty keeping up with the daily chores around your home? House cleaning? Cooking? Changing linens?

Could you use assistance getting to the doctor? Or to the store?

Would you welcome help on the outside of your home such as gardening, shoveling, maintenance?

If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, it is worth talking to someone from Seniors Helping Seniors in-home services. Just ask for a free evaluation.

 Call us: 603-801-1936 (or) Email us: judy@shs-nh.com

 

It was personal experience with their own parents that led friends and business partners, Judy and Randy Loubier and Ben and Nancy Paquin to start Seniors Helping Seniors senior care services, serving the Seacoast and Southern New Hampshire. “My mother was living in Florida and underwent surgery to remove half of her right lung. Three weeks after her recovery she suffered a stroke,” shared Judy. “I was on the airplane heading home from Florida praying, ‘God, how am I going to care for my aging parents?’ That is when I opened the airplane magazine and saw an advertisement for Seniors Helping Seniors services. It felt like my prayers had been answered in more ways than one.”

Senior Services

Seniors Helping Seniors Serving the Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire

 

“Between the four of us we have been through almost every major situation you can face in caring for a parent,” said Ben. He recounted the times that he and his business partners have provided or found senior care for their parents: from close and long distance, set up hospice, used assisted living, long-term care, set up their parents’ homes to meet their special needs and made their own home a senior care home. “All through those experiences,” he added, “we wanted to support our parents in their independence and dignity and to optimize their quality of life.”

Through it all, they experienced the full range of emotions from fear and guilt, to concern and joy, he added. “We were the adult child, the caregiver, the senior, the son or daughter and the decision-maker.” These experiences, together with a common bond in faith and careers in helping others, brought the partners close together and resulted in a commitment to starting Seniors Helping Seniors of Seacoast and Southern New Hampshire.

“We truly believe that the best caregivers are those with a lifetime of their own tragedy, struggles and joys,” said Randy. “The best person to care for a senior is a senior. When we share our vulnerabilities, our aches and pains, our disappointments in not being able to do the same things as when we were young, we need genuine empathy not just a sympathetic nod. Likewise when we share stories of our youth, former careers and grandchildren, we want to talk with someone who understands, because they, too, have their own lifetime of victories and defeats.”

“We chose to start Seniors Helping Seniors of Seacoast & Southern New Hampshire senior care because of the emphasis on finding loving, caring, compassionate providers. Anything less is not what we want for our parents, and not what we want for ourselves,” he added.

As the name implies, Seniors Helping Seniors exclusively hires seniors as senior caregivers to provide care for elderly clients. Some have extensive backgrounds in Alzheimer’s care and dementia care, a common reason to ask for senior care. Their background often doesn’t come from a textbook or a classroom—it comes from direct senior care to their own parents, friends and volunteer experiences. Seniors are uniquely qualified to care for Alzheimer’s and dementia clients—they have a lifetime of practicing patience, and they have no other pressing concerns to run away to after “work.” For our senior caregivers, this isn’t a job (they do get paid) but they are there because they truly want to give of their heart.

Seniors Helping Seniors offers non-medical home care for senior clients, including but not limited to:

Provide Senior Care

Senior Care

Hygiene Assistance, Cooking, Light housekeeping, Companionship, Personal grooming and dressing, Shopping, Doctor visits, Transportation, Yard work, Mobility assistance, House maintenance and small repairs, Overnight stays (24-hour care), Long-distance check-ins, Respite care, Alzheimer/Dementia care

Seniors Helping Seniors is a senior care company licensed through the Department of Health and Human Services with the State of NH.

They can be reached at 603-801-1936, judy@shs-nh.com, or www.seniorshelpingseniorsnh.com.

Also, if you are in need of other types of senior services (eg: Elder Care Attorney) in or near Milford try our Resource Guide.