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    The Best Senior Care Guide: Options for Your Loved Ones
    The Best Senior Care Guide: Options for Your Loved Ones
    The Best Senior Care Guide: Options for Your Loved Ones
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    The Best Senior Care Guide: Options for Your Loved Ones

    By Susan Canterbury Pipyne

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    What am I going to do to help my loved ones who are aging? They need help. Why are they angry whenever we talk about senior care for them? This new book on a hot topic offers you an autobiography and sharing of an award winning senior care professional insider's journey with her aging parent’s medical needs for elder care, dementia, and hospice. Here is never before published insider information on how to approach and persuade your loved ones, the actual costs involved, personal interviews about aging, and helpful tips on the many options in the senior care maze. A new comprehensive look at an industry in transition.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSusan Canterbury Pipyne
    Release dateFeb 9, 2014
    ISBN9781310354250
    The Best Senior Care Guide: Options for Your Loved Ones
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    Susan Canterbury Pipyne

    Understanding the culture and mindset of seniors has always been a fascination for Susan. She has a life long connection to seniors beginning with her grandfather who was born in 1875, working as a patient representative in hospitals, and offering guidance for senior housing through the various levels of senior care. Her work has made her realize that too much is unknown about senior care in the general population, which can create many unnecessary crisis situations. Susan has almost 10 years as a Board of Education certified hypnotist and 20 years as a top producer winning national and regional awards for senior care advising, medical sales, media marketing, advertising sales management, and HR recruiting. She has written procedure manuals for diverse businesses, and particularly enjoys helping start-up companies. Her great passion in life is to help others, young and old, to feel good about their important place in the world.

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      The Best Senior Care Guide - Susan Canterbury Pipyne

      The Best Senior Care Guide:

      Options for Your Loved Ones

      A Daughter's Journey as a Senior Care Professional

      Susan Canterbury Pipyne

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2014 Susan Canterbury Pipyne

      All Rights Reserved

      License Notes: This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this ebook with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Ebook cover and formatting by www.ebooklaunch.com

      Contents

      Dedication

      Acknowledgments

      About The Author

      Disclaimer

      Chapter One - Determining a Location

      Chapter Two - Types of Senior Housing

      Chapter Three - What Care Level is Needed?

      Chapter Four - Home Care Options

      Chapter Five - My Personal Journey

      Chapter Six - Warning Signs

      Chapter Seven - Attachments and Moving

      Chapter Eight - Fears and Old Traditions

      Chapter Nine - Grieving and Loss

      Chapter Ten - What Is Old?

      Chapter Eleven - Safety and Giving Up the Car Keys

      Chapter Twelve - Reframing the Senior Experience

      Chapter Thirteen - Why Seniors Can Be Angry (not necessarily with you)

      Chapter Fourteen - What If They Run Out of Money?

      Chapter Fifteen - My Notions about the Future of Senior Living

      Chapter Sixteen - Six Personal Interviews about Aging

      Chapter Seventeen - The Business of Senior Care

      Chapter Eighteen - The Life You Save...

      Resources

      Photographs

      Lake Shabbona State Park, Shabbona, IL

      Turkey Run State Park, IN

      Backyard Sparrows, DeKalb, IL

      St. Francis Garden Grotto, DeKalb, IL

      Homestead, DeKalb, IL

      Nathan Canterbury Home, East Weymouth, MA

      Illinois River Valley Farm, Princeton, IL

      Illinois River Valley Farm, Princeton, IL

      Turkey Run State Park, IN

      Homestead, DeKalb, IL

      Ottawa Avenue Cemetery, Ottawa, IL

      Turkey Run State Park, IN

      Illinois River Valley Farm, Princeton, IL

      Mosaic by S. Neimanas, Sr, Ottawa, IL

      Illinois River Valley Farm, Princeton, IL

      Mosaic by S. Neimanas, Sr., Ottawa, IL

      Golden Tree, DeKalb, IL

      White Pines State Park, Mt. Morris, IL

      Key West, FL

      Backyard Squirrel, DeKalb, IL

      Photography Copyright © 2014 Susan Canterbury Pipyne

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to my parents

      Evelyn and Lewis Canterbury whose example

      of living well will always be remembered.

      Acknowledgments

      I wish to express my thanks to some special people I have worked with in the senior care industry. George, MD, a great mentor and friend, who started me on the path of the medical field. Audrey, a life long friend who shares the adventures in life and who has been a personal trainer for seniors and younger folk. Marjorie, RN, another friend who's hard work with seniors and kindness has always been outstanding, and senior care. Friend Joanie, Certified Dementia Practitioner, who provides seniors with a strong dedication to quality activities. Jennifer, supervisor, who creates park district senior parties at an amazing pace. Pam, a high school friend who was rediscovered 400 miles away, and is a director of senior services. Wendell, an enlightened hospital director who listened to insights from his staff. Meg, a friend who's humor got me through long winters at work. A Place For Mom counselors, who go the extra mile. And to all the front line employees in senior care: receptionists, housekeepers, CNA's, and dining servers, who deserve gold. You are building advanced karma for your service to those who are in need.

      And on the home front to thank my husband Markus with his winemaking, culinary masterpieces, and mutual love of nature. And also to my adult children Blake and Kimberly who are a source of comfort, fresh ideas, creativity, and give me hope for a great future in the journey of life.

      About The Author

      Susan Canterbury Pipyne began working with seniors while still in her teens as a medical office manager on Chicago's Gold Coast. Through many conversations with older people over the years, she developed a strong bond with them to understand the process of aging from their perspective. She later worked as a hospital representative in the city and suburbs to become an expert at handling issues for seniors.

      She experienced a cathartic personal journey with her own parent's care needs at the same time she was a marketing professional in a long-term care senior community. Through serendipity, she learned how to be proactive to get her parents a safe care level for their different needs. Afterward, she returned to school for gerontology and long-term care management, and made a commitment that several avoidable problems would not happen on her watch for other families. After seven years of marketing management experience in long-term care, assisted living, Alzheimer's care, and independent living, she developed a system to help adult children with their parent's age-related problems.

      Her majors in anthropology and sociology brought a special focus to senior care by working through group dynamics, cultural differences, and coaching for socially beneficial outcomes.

      She has won national and regional sales awards as a placement specialist, advertising manager, and senior care marketing manager. She is a Board of Education certified Hypnotist and facilitates private sessions and seminars utilizing the power of the mind/body/motivation connection.

      She lives in DeKalb, IL with her husband Markus, and has two grown children.

      The Best Senior Care Guide:

      Options for Your Loved Ones

      A Daughter's Journey as a Senior Care Professional

      What Should I Do?

      What am I going to do to help my loved ones who are aging? They need help. What should I do? How do I get them to consider assistance? Do they need to consider moving into a senior community? Will home health care be enough? What will happen if they continue to need more assistance in the future? Why are they angry whenever we talk about this?

      This book offers you an autobiography and sharing of my dual personal journey with my parents through end of life steps from aging medical needs to elder care dementia and hospice. As a practicing senior care professional, I offer insider information on how to approach and persuade your loved one to move into senior housing or get home care. My combined situation helps to describe options of senior care, and will help you find good options! You will learn about determining a location, the types of senior housing available, what care level to look for, warning signs that an older person should not be alone, and understanding the psyche of many seniors and why they are so resistant to getting home care or moving to a senior community. You will learn current costs of senior housing and home care, and what can be done if your senior runs out of money.

      In all of human history, we've never had so many loved ones living so long. How will we provide for their needs in their later senior years? Rich or poor, independence is the battle cry for almost all seniors, but it only works if their mind and body are well functioning. We have long recognized and understood physical difficulties, but the decline of the mind is a new frontier. If you are an adult child, grandchild, partner, spouse, or friend of a senior, knowing when and how to step in for their well-being can prevent a crisis.

      I use the term family and adult children in many sections, however, I am well aware that there are wonderful partners, neighbors, and friends who help with senior care. You are all included as family in the spirit of your love and assistance.

      While I do tend to lean with the merits of senior communities, you will need to determine a right fit for your loved one based on their safety, your availability, and everyone's finances. Help is available when you need it, and I have tried to cover several scenarios and options to help you with your decision.

      You may be entering a phase of role reversal, or dealing with parents who refuse to do, or even consider what you ask, so hold on to your hats, own the problem, and together we'll help you make the necessary changes. To not take action if your senior is having safety or memory problems is a poor option at best, and one often regretted by the senior's family. You may know what to do if they have a physical problem, but memory issues are really a new frontier for most. Welcome pioneers!

      Memory loss is a creepy thing for most people. How did you feel the last time you couldn't find your keys? How did you feel the last time you parked your car in a big parking lot and couldn't remember where you parked? How would you feel if most of the things you did, needed to be written down, but you couldn't find a pen or paper or your notes? Now multiply this feeling by 20+ times daily, and you begin to have a little understanding what an older person's memory loss feels like.

      There are many arguments both pro and con for living in a senior community. The community environment increases physical activity and social involvement - both essential for quality of life and maintaining the highest functioning ability possible. It is not a panacea or cure for memory problems or physical difficulties, but it is a better solution than a person or couple sitting home alone most of the time and not being active or engaged. I have seen hundreds of seniors who have tried both living alone at home and venturing into senior community lifestyles, and by their own admission, they are much happier living with a group of their peers they can see daily. Some seniors are lucky and still have social connections at their home, but this is becoming less common in today's mobile neighborhoods. Neighbors can only do so much to keep an eye on the elderly, and warning signs may not always be apparent.

      Young and middle age people rarely think about how life would be if everyone they affiliated with was no longer available, whether because of moving away or having passed on. No more

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