Listen To Workshop: Safeguarding The Elderly
Safeguarding the elderly goes far beyond making sure they have a lock on the door. In today’s society, safety means a proactive campaign where family members become familiar with the latest scams so they can protect their parents from financial or physical peril. Family members must also help protect once self-sufficient seniors lose their independence.
Listen to this free workshop and discover:
- The 4 BIGGEST SCAMS that can Endanger your Parents.
- How to put PROACTIVE Emergency Systems in Place.
- Key Factors for Extending your Senior’s Independence.
- How to Protect Your Parents physically, emotionally and financially from a distance.
Recorded 11/16/2010, Presented By:
Joan Smith
Rehabilitation Manager
Community Visiting Nurse Association
Joan P. Smith P.T. is a licensed physical therapist with over 25 years of clinical experience as well as extensive experience in a variety of clinical settings including acute care, sub-acute, geriatric and home care. Presently Joan is the rehabilitation manager at Community Visiting Nurse Association in Somerville, NJ where her home care experience has made evident the vital importance of home safety and fall prevention.
Laurie Rowe
MS, Eldercare Educator
Somerset County Office on Aging and Disability Services
As the Eldercare Educator for the Somerset County Office on Aging, Laurie addresses the common and complex challenges seniors experience through education, intervention and knowledge of available resources. Laurie is committed to finding solutions for problems using a fresh perspective, creative problem solving and humor.
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Listen To Workshop: Being A Loving Presence
Experiencing “aging parents” is one of the most emotional and challenging transitions we face in life. Having the caretaker roles reversed is confusing and complex. Our love for our parents doesn’t change but our ability to help them becomes limited. In many ways, they don’t look or act like the parents we have loved our whole lives; but that doesn’t mean this time can’t be precious, significant and valuable for everyone.
Listen to this workshop and discover:
- Valuable resources in making the most of your shared family history.
- Exploring values, emotional strengths and spiritual insights at this time in life.
- How to look at end of life care and understand what everyone needs in this process.
- How to say what you need to say, while making peace with the past and preparing for a new future.
Recorded 11/09/2010, Presented By:
Anita Ciano, BS RN, Hospice Manager for the Community Visiting Nurse Association
As the Hospice Manager at Community VNA since 2001 and as a certified Hospice Administrator and Bereavement Support Group Facilitator, Anita has extensive experience in working with the elderly and has made providing expert and compassionate hospice support and understanding of hospice care in the community her highest priorities.
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Listen To Workshop: Planning Ahead For Your Own Senior Years
The last thing we want to do is leave our children with the overwhelming task of planning for us as we mature. This is an excellent opportunity to understand the things we need to begin getting in order for ourselves so our wishes can be fulfilled. It will help put YOU in control of your future while – eliminating guess work and stress for our children. This workshop will provide you with a checklist of key things on which to take action – NOW – to make things easier down the road.
Listen to this workshop and discover:
- CRITICAL CONSIDERATIONS as you create your will and Power of Attorney.
- Decisions around who will take care of you and how you want them to do that?
- Long Term Care planning – Where will the money come from?
- Understanding the Medicare/Medicaid maze.
Recorded 11/02/2010, Presented By:
Kelly Finnegan, MSW, Eldercare Educator
Somerset County Office on Aging and Disability Services
Kelly Finnegan is the Eldercare Educator for the Somerset County Office, bringing over 13 years of experience working with seniors and their caregivers in a variety of settings including nursing homes, assisted living and in the community. As a former caregiver herself, Ms. Finnegan knows both the heartaches and the joys of caring for aging parents and uses this experience to connect with her audience.
Gary Cornick, Elder Law Attorney
Law Offices of Gary Cornick, LLC
Since 1991 Gary has served as an attorney and is active in several bar associations, including Co-Chairing the Somerset County Car Elder Law Section, National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys – New Jersey Chapter. He has written numerous articles and is a regular speaker addressing elder law, estate planning and guardianship law issues.
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Listen To Workshop: Getting Your Parent’s Legal Matters In Order
One of the toughest conversations adult children must have with their aging parents centers on legal matters – a topic most of us are unfamiliar and uncomfortable with already. But the time to get our loved ones affairs in order is now, while they can still offer constructive input.
How do I guide my parents through all the red tape of getting their affairs in order? Anthony will provide a simple, step by step plan for key issues to settle to ensure their wishes are met and you and they are making good financial decisions for their welfare.
Listen to this workshop and discover:
- A Living Trust: A Popular PLAN for Avoiding Probate and Planning for “What If”
- The Medicaid Mystery: Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together
- Is it too late? Estate planning for Alzheimer’s patients
- Asset protection: STEP BY STEP estate planning documents everyone should have
Recorded 10/26/2010, Presented By:
Attorney Anthony Digirolamo from DiFrancesco, Bateman, Coley, Yospin, Kunzman, Davis & Lehrer, P.C.
As an attorney for over 30 years, Anthony brings his extensive experience in estate planning, probate litigation, taxation, real property and commercial transactions to his clients, making him a highly sought after expert.
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Listen To Workshop: Dealing With The Changing Behaviors Of Elderly Parents
It’s hard to determine when parents need us to step in. And then once the need is recognized, the question becomes what to do, how to do it and who to work with? The burden of answering these questions and putting systems in place can seem overwhelming.
Listen to this workshop and discover:
- What to expect: signs and symptoms of dementia.
- Three KEY SIGNS that additional help is needed and how to get it.
- Understanding changing roles, relationships and responsibilities.
- ENCOURAGING a healthy, active lifestyle for an aged loved one.
Recorded 10/19/2010, Presented By:
Cynthia D. Voorhees, RN MS
Eldercare Administrator, Somerset County Office on Aging and Disability Services
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Listen To Workshop: Tough Conversations With Your Parents
We had a terrific turnout at our Elder Care workshop “Five Secrets To Starting and Finishing Tough Conversations.” This was the first of our Fall 2010 “Taking Care Of Your Parents” series in Bridgewater, NJ. Thirty people attended to hear valuable advice from our guest speakers, Laurie Rowe and Susanne Mueller.
We would like to thank…
Laurie Rowe, MS, Eldercare Educator
Somerset County Office on Aging and Disability Services
Susanne Mueller, Owner
BrightStar Care
Alice Brophy, CEO
Community Visiting Nurse Association
If you have any questions about services provided by the Center for Life Transitions, please contact Dona Lee Calabrese.
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Job Search Courage – Looking Inside and Out for Hope and Help
Listen to Thomas Bachhuber, Ed.D: “Job Search Courage – Looking Inside and Out for Hope and Help”
Recorded September, 2009
What Are You Doing With Your Pearl?
Listen to Thomas Bachhuber: “What are you doing with your pearl?”
Recorded June 7, 2009 at North Branch Reformed Church in Bridgewater, NJ.
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Open House Photos
The Center for Life Transitions held it’s first Open House on June 7th 2009. Many thanks to those in attendance for making it a success.
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Listen to Tom Bachhuber, “What are you doing with your Pearl?” Recorded June 7, 2009:
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New Center Helps People Embrace Change
For Immediate Release:
April 15, 2009
By: Allyssa Ann Hintzen, UW Milwaukee Journalism Dept.
New Center Helps People Embrace Change
The Center for Life Transitions, Inc. is dedicated to serving people at “crossroads” in their personal, professional and spiritual lives.
The idea for The Center began when two friends at North Branch Reformed Church in Bridgewater, NJ, Tom Bachhuber and Scott Pontier, regularly shared their concerns about career, family life and faith and those of the clients they served. It all began around 1992; Tom was a career management consultant and Vice President of a recruitment firm and Scott was a therapist and President of his own EAP. They quickly discovered how similar their thinking—and dreams– were. An organization to help people in transition could be truly valuable—one which brings together best practices in counseling, family therapy, career coaching and also encourages clients to examine their faith as they address change in their lives.
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