December 14th, 2010
Eldercare
Year-End Special By Barbara E. Friesner My father used to quip: What do you get the person who has everything? A box to put it in. Oddly enough – that’s not such a bad suggestion! Especially now when you’re helping them get rid of stuff! The kind of box doesn’t necessarily matter. What matters is […]
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November 29th, 2010
Eldercare
The Silent Generation – Another Key to the Eldercare Code By Barbara E. Friesner, NABBW’s Eldercare Expert My first article for the National Association of Baby Boomer Women was exactly 5 years ago (which staggers me!!) That first article was about our Vicky-D (Victorian/Depression era generation) parents who are now about 85 years old and […]
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October 31st, 2010
Eldercare
Happy New Year! By Barbara E. Friesner Did you notice the energy in the air right after Labor Day? It was really palpable here in NYC. Everyone just somehow seemed to walk a little lighter! Maybe it’s that this was such a miserable summer that people were just relieved that it was over. Or maybe […]
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September 22nd, 2010
Eldercare
We want our parents to use computers and the internet. The good news is that more and more of them are. The bad news is that an alarming number of them are also falling prey to identity thieves and internet scammers. I\’m sure you\’ve seen them – emails from banks, credit card companies, and stores […]
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