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Senior Services Rye NH

 

Announcing Kenneth M.

Senior Services Rye NH

Kenneth M.

Senior Services Rye NH is proud to announce Kenneth M.

Hometown:  I was born in Beverly MA (raised in Gloucester) and currently live in Rye NH.

Memorable Moment as a Caregiver: I looked after both my brother and mom toward the end of their lives.

Did you Know?I enjoy golf, sailing, kayaking, fishing, walking, as well as music, museums, theater, reading, cooking and handyman things.

Senior Services Rye 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 Rye, try our Resource Guide.

Senior In Home Care Manchester NH

 

Announcing Janice S.

Senior In Home Care Manchester NH

Janice S.

Senior In Home Care Manchester NH is proud to announce Janice S.

Hometown:  I was born in Manchester NH and still live there, but I also spend my summers in Wells Beach, ME.

Memorable Moment as a Caregiver: I took care of my dad when my mom passed away unexpectedly. He had a stroke the previous Christmas; I found it very rewarding taking care of him.

Did you Know?I traveled to Africa recently to witness my daughter’s marriage ~ it was a wonderful trip!

Senior In Home Care Manchester 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 Manchester, try our Resource Guide.

Deciphering the Mystery of Dementia with Judy Loubier

Deciphering the Mystery of Dementia

with Judy Loubier 

 Deciphering the Mystery of Dementia

Caring For Seniors Radio Broadcast With Judy Loubier

Judy Loubier covers the all important topic of understanding dementia in your loved one.  Early signs.  What to look for.  What is the difference between normal memory loss and dementia?  And, she gives us tips to keep our brains in tip-top shape!

She also tells us more about Seniors Helping Seniors, a program designed to ease the burden of elders who are living independently.

 

    Caring for Seniors

 

Home Health CareWhen:  Wednesday mornings at 7:40Anchor:  Judy LoubierSponsor:  Seniors Helping Seniors Seacoast & Southern NHBrowse the Caring for Seniors show archives.Caring for Seniors covers senior care topics such as Alzheimer’s care, respite care, how to choose senior services, tips on fall prevention, Medicare, Medicaid, estate planning, ins and outs of advance directives, senior fitness tips, stroke prevention, dementia care and recognizing signs of stroke.

Counting on Medicaid for Long Term Care?

Counting on Medicaid for Long Term Care?

The oldest Baby Boomers are now turning 70. Suddenly, the possibility of needing long term care looms, despite the medical advances of joint replacement, heart surgeries, and pharmaceuticals. Boomers now must face the increasing possibility of needing care with activities of daily living – things like dressing, bathing, and toileting.

Medicare does not cover these basic services – beyond a limited number of days of “skilled” nursing care required, for example, after a surgery. The Veteran’s Administration does cover some care, primarily restricted to VA nursing homes. Long term care insurance is the obvious solution – yet fewer than 10 percent of the senior population has such a policy.

So many seniors who need daily custodial care are forced to turn to state Medicaid programs. And in these days of dwindling state budgets, that’s not likely to be an appealing solution — despite some Federal matching funds recently added to some state budgets under the Affordable Care Act.

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Here’s what you should know if you’re counting on Medicaid as a last resort for custodial care:

1. Medicaid care takes away choice. More than half of all Medicaid custodial care is given in an institutional setting. That takes away the chance to remain at home and have limited care for several hours a day. It also takes away your choice of nursing homes. Given increasing demand and low Medicaid reimbursement rates, most facilities have a limited number of Medicaid beds, instead opting to serve those who pay through private savings or Long Term Care Insurance.

2. Medical and financial qualification is necessary. Each state sets its own criteria to qualify for Medicaid custodial care. For example, the state of Illinois provides long term care services for 55,000 eligible residents in 738 nursing facilities. Those facilities take all but $30 a month from your Social Security or other income to pay for your nursing home care.

3. Exemptions for spouses remaining in community. Each state sets its own limitations for how much of your income will be retained by your spouse. For example, in Illinois in 2015, the non-Medicaid spouse could keep up to $2,980.50 of income per month from the Medicaid spouse. The Federal maximum for property retained by the community spouse is $119,220, in addition to the family home (up to a value of $552,000, or higher in some states), car, and household furnishings. But your state exemptions might be lower than the Federal limits, which are adjusted yearly.

Home Health Care4. Avoid Medicaid planning and transfers. It obviously is tempting to simply transfer assets to children, thus qualifying for your state’s Medicaid long term care program. In fact, an entire industry has sprung up to plan for this eventuality. But states are getting tougher – creating a “look back” period, typically 5 years, to examine such asset transfers. And as state budgets are squeezed, some states are moving more aggressively to recover payment from sale of the home after the community spouse residing there dies.

5. Consider Long Term Care Insurance. Although it’s estimated that 70 percent of seniors will need at least some assistance in performing basic activities of daily living during their lifetimes, the average stay in a long term care facility – the dreaded nursing home – is only 2.43 years.

So you may be better off purchasing a short-term Long Term Care Insurance policy – one that gives flexibility to access benefits for either home health care, assisted living, or a nursing home if needed. Once you become a resident in your nursing home of choice by paying for the initial months of care, you are likely to be allowed to stay as a Medicaid-paid resident.

If you have questions about these items, or want to know the Medicaid income and asset exemption levels for your state, go to www.ElderLawAnswers.com.

Growing older is better than the alternative. And realistically planning for the possibilities of needing care in your later years gives peace of mind for you – and your family. That’s the Savage Truth.

 

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Senior Services Epping NH

 

Announcing Bre B.

Senior Services Epping NH

Bre B.

Senior Services Epping NH is proud to announce Bre B.

Hometown:  I was born in Cambridge MA and currently live in Epping NH.

Memorable Moment as a Caregiver: Even as a child, I wanted to help people. I was forever interested in people and their psyche, what made them who they are today.

Did you Know?I love dogs! I also play drums and am in training for mental health counseling licensure.

Senior Services Epping 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 Epping, try our Resource Guide.

In Home Senior Care Manchester NH

 

Announcing Diane B.

In Home Senior Care Manchester NH

Diane B.

In Home Senior Care Manchester NH is proud to announce Diane B.

Hometown:  I was born in Sherbrook, Canada and currently live in Manchester NH.

Memorable Moment as a Caregiver: I am fortunate enough to hopefully make a difference in someone’s life.

Did you Know?I took one of my dogs to obedience class and at the end of the class they gave me the certificate stating that I earned it, not KC (my dog)!!!

In Home Senior Care Manchester 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 Manchester try our Resource Guide.

Nurse Account Services Coordinator

Nurse Account Services Coordinator

Retired RN? Looking for an enjoyable way to earn some income?

Seniors Helping Seniors is looking for a special senior (50+) to join our family. As a nurse you have made a career of caring for others. You have seen the good care models and the not so good care models. You have worked at assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and rehabilitation units, and you currently live in Southern NH or Southern ME.

But you are unique. You have a gift for connecting with people. You look forward to talking with others. You are excited when your phone rings, when you get an email or you get a Facebook message. You strike up conversations in the grocery store and look forward to meeting new people in various settings. Put you in a room of people and you are excited to connAccount Services Coordinatorect with them. People tend to like you because you are interested, engaging and have a positive outlook on life.

If this is you, we want to have a conversation with you. Like you, we are unique. We have a care model that is different—far superior—but different. And we want you to help us connect with the assisted living facilities, nursing homes and rehabilitation units. You will be talking with the discharge planners and managers to get them on board with our care model.

This opportunity will be unique as well. With your income based on account specific commissions, the sky is the limit in terms of where you could take this. It also means you can work according to your schedule—when and how much you would like.

If this might be right for you, and you would like to explore this opportunity further, please use our online application: https://shsnh.clearcareonline.com/apply/ . (The application is normally used for caregivers, so some of the check boxes do not apply to you.) Please do not call or email.

Apply online quickly and we will get back to you right away to arrange a phone call!

Elderly Care Exeter NH

 

Announcing Valerie M.

Elderly Care Exeter NH

Valerie M.

Elderly Care Services Exeter NH is proud to announce Valerie M.

Hometown:  I was born Waltham MA and currently live in Exeter NH.

Memorable Moment as a Caregiver:  My mother instilled many of her caring and compassionate qualities to me as I love getting to know people and hearing their stories.

Did you Know?I have traveled to Egypt, Paris, Amsterdam, Italy, Ireland, London, Scotland, Bermuda, Canada and Mexico.

Elderly Care Exeter NH Elder Care 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 Exeter, try our Resource Guide.

Senior Assistance Merrimack NH

 

Announcing Denise W.

Senior Assistance Merrimack NH

Denise W.

Senior Assistance Merrimack NH is proud to announce Denise W.

Hometown:  I was born in Manchester NH and currently live in Merrimack NH.

Memorable Moment as a Caregiver:  I had both my parents move in with me 5-1/2 years ago. I witnessed firsthand how seniors need advocates and help. Both parents passed away peacefully in my home. I want to continue to share my love and compassion with others who need help as my parents did.

Did you Know?I rode a Segway for the first time at the age of 60!

Senior Assistance Merrimack 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 Merrimack, try our Resource Guide.

CRASH B and Family Support

C.R.A.S.H B. and Family Support

rowing seniors

Sunday March 1st 2015 was my first experience with the World Indoor Rowing Championships. You may know from a previous blog that I am a member of a master’s crew team. We are masters not in ability but in age. Apparently after a certain age which will not be disclosed here, you are considered a master.

The World Indoor Rowing Championships is better known in rowing circles as the “Crash Bs.” Just a side note here, in our home it has been referred to as the “Groovy Bs” as back in the days of prep school my husband’s first introduction to a fellow preppy was something like “My name is Bruce but call me Groovy B.”

Groovy. We are definitely over 50. Being older means it is time to be thoughtful about how I age. I chose to row because it was something I had wanted to do since college and because healthy aging means staying fit and staying social. In fact, physical activity and socialization are better than any medicine on the market to combat memory loss. Better than that, the support of a team of middle aged folks is unique in that flaws are easily accepted when we have gained such insight into our own.

CRASH B Warmup

CRASH B Warmups

But back to the C.R.A.S.H –B. race. C.R.A.S.H –B. stands for “Charles River All-Star Has-Beens.” By their own description: “In the beginning, C.R.A.S.H-B. was a group of 1976-1980 US Olympic and World Team athletes who lurked on the Charles River, never rowing the same lineup twice, never practicing before a race, always jumping the start against Harvard and having a lot of fun too.”

At the end of my rowing season this fall, as the water was getting cold enough to numb your legs in 10 seconds, talk started about going to the C.R.A.S.H.-Bs. Coaches tried to get everyone excited and it sounded like a fun idea.

In January I started to take it more seriously and began training. I had seen pictures, knew that there was a large attendance and I generally try not to embarrass myself in front of more than my family. The numbers of Baboosic Lake Rowing Club members intending to attend had dwindled but I was ok with that. I determined that this would be about my personal best. I kept training,

CRASH B World Championship Sprints

CRASH B World Championship Sprints 2015

beginner that I am, rowing 4-5 times per week on my WaterRower and neglecting weight lifting, energy drinks and the like.

The big day arrived this past Sunday and my husband, Randy, friend of Groovy B, drove me down to the Boston University Agganis Arena for the event. The reality of the event began to sink in as we realized we were surrounded by top ranked rowers, some who had Olympic medals and had broken world rowing records. These are not “has-beens.” These oarsmen are impressive and represent rowing clubs from around the world. The Royal Navy Crew Team is seated in the bleachers behind us, the team from Brazil one section over. Australia, Norway, Germany and Cuba are represented.

Another quote from the C.R.A.S.H.-B site: “Although C.R.A.S.H.-B. as an organization maintains a nontraditional irreverence to all things that are not fun, nonetheless this ergometer has become serious business, threatening to replace fun with pain, unless you can equate the two.” The rowers who have decided to participate are clearly able to mix fun and pain and the support of the crowd is enthusiastic.

Randy was allowed down on the floor with me, able to sit right behind me as my coach for the day though he has never rowed, coxed, or coached before. He was prepared to support and encourage me and I know I am a lucky woman.

As I said, my goal was to reach the other side of 2000 meters on an erg with a personal best time. I failed that. But I discovered a few things.

One, the support of a coach and a teammate who did not attend but sent messages the night before and through that morning was fantastic. I was disappointed in my time and they rallied from an hour away and reminded me to be proud for the training I put in and for showing up. As master’s we have learned that most of life is about showing up.

“physical activity and socialization are better than any medicine on the market to combat memory loss”

Two, my coach for the day/husband/friend of Groovy B is my biggest fan. He told me when to push harder, when to try a power 10, when I was nearing the end and could celebrate finishing. Randy was there for me. I missed my goal for time but sharing this experience with him was amazing.

As Randy pointed out to more than one thousand folks on Facebook, I did not break a world rowing record on Sunday. However we were both inspired by the C.R.A.S.H.-B. race. A woman in her 80’s broke the world record for that age bracket, a 60 year old gentleman with an Olympic silver medal broke the world record as well.

Staying Fit as a Senior

Staying Fit as a Senior–A 60 Year Old Broke a World Record

I plan to be better when I am 60 than I am at 52. I am inspired to be fit, stay social and age well. I can endure pain and have fun. I have a remarkable support system.

This summer my sister Kathy wants me to row her across the lake in Maine to get donuts at the wonderful Day’s Store in Belgrade Lakes. I just might. But she will have to cheer me on all the way and then pay for the donuts. It is never a bad time to add a cheerleader or to carb load when rowing. Another thing that comes with the wisdom of age.

CRASH B and Family Support. http://www.crash-b.org/about/c-r-a-s-h-b-history/