Greetings!
With St. Patrick's Day, warmer weather, seedlings ready to plant soon, and spring on its way - all I could think about was the concept of nurturing. How do we nurture our elders and show our respect?
Some serious issues like preventing elder abuse are covered as well as some basic tips to how we can care for our aging parents.
With Spring on its way, let's nurture ourselves and our families a little more this month!
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Nurturing Seniors with Purpose
"There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy'. The need to live is our physical need for such things as food, clothing, shelter, economical well-being, health. The need to love is our social need to relate to other people, to belong, to love and to be loved. The need to learn is our mental need to develop and to grow.
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Definition of Elder Abuse:
The National Research Council defines elder mistreatment as "intentional actions that cause harm (whether or not harm was intended) or create a serious risk of harm to an older adult by a caregiver or other person who stands in a trust relationship to the elder, or failure by a caregiver to satisfy the elder's basic needs or to protect the elder from harm."
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Right now, there is an explosion of people wondering how they will help their own aging parents. Why an explosion? First of all, more people than at any other time in US history are becoming seniors or elders. That baby boom generation was large and yet, they themselves had fewer children than their parents. So, the children of the boomers are fewer.
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