by Laurie Miraglia | May 18, 2022
As part of celebrating the month of May as Aging Life Care Month, we would like help educate our visitors on what it is that Aging Life Care Professionals, also known as Geriatric Care Managers, do to help aging persons and their involved family members to plan for...
by Laurie Miraglia | Feb 15, 2022
Roger and his wife Emma have always loved to dance. Emma often tells the story of how they first met in a ballroom group as college students during a strangely snowy autumn in Boston. The rest, as we say, is history, and the love of dance grew with them. Almost every...
by Laurie Miraglia | Dec 15, 2021
My client Betty, 82 years old, told me she was feeling sad with the start of winter.”When the days are shorter and it’s cold outside, I don’t want to go out as much, and neither do my friends,” she said. “But I also hate feeling cooped...
by Laurie Miraglia | Nov 15, 2021
Joyce had been a caregiver for her mother for more than a year, and she contacted me when she realized she needed help finding in-home care while she was at work.”The pandemic has made things more difficult,” she told me. “My mom has had 2 home care...
by Laurie Miraglia | Sep 15, 2021
At 20 years old, Emily lived at home with her parents while she worked part-time and attended the local community college. Her grandparents, in their late 80’s, lived in the same town and Emily was very close to them. Lately, she’d been overhearing hushed...
by Laurie Miraglia | Jun 21, 2020
In my role as a care manager, I often work with families whose loved ones have Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia. When it’s no longer safe for them to live at home, I help families locate appropriate long term care. It can be a stressful time...
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