SENIOR LIVING SOLUTIONS

February 25, 2009

Senior Living Solutions Overview:Once submitted, you can sit back, relax, and leave the work to us! Within hours, we will email you valuable information that will help you not only understand the different senior housing and care options available but also supply you with vital information that will educate you on what to look for and what questions to ask before making any commitment. And once your request has been assessed, a qualified retirement counselor will contact you directly by your preferred method of communication, via phone or email to further discuss how to best address your senior housing and eldercare needs.

Our mission is to offer you the very best in Senior Living and Senior Care service. To help ensure this, all providers are screened and vetted prior to participating in our program, so you can feel confident knowing that you are being referred only to quality and safe organizations.  And unlike most online referral programs, with Senior Living Solutions you are under NO OBLIGATION to buy anything, ever.Senior Living and Senior Care Services Available to You:
When it comes to caring for an elderly loved one, a variety of different services may be required.  Senior Living Solutions is ready to help with each and every one of them. Here are just a few of the services available through Senior Living Solutions:

*Assisted Living Facilities
*Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Facilities
*Independent Senior Apartments
*Home Care

 

*Short Term Respite and/or vacation staysFrequently Asked Questions About Senior Living Solutions:

*Am I obligated to buy anything?
No. Never. By completing a Needs Assessment survey, you are under NO obligation to purchase anything.  We simply provide you with options and leave the decision entirely up to you as to whether you would like to follow up with any of the network service or product providers who respond to your request.

How are Senior Living Solutions providers screened?
Depending on the particular industry, each eldercare provider specialty has its own set of standards and certifications.  In order to participate in the Senior Living Solutions network, providers must provide evidence that they are legally authorized to provide the services and/or products they sell to consumers. Furthermore, each and every provider is required at all times to meet Senior Living Solutions Provider Participation Standards and abide by Senior Living Solutions Terms of Use. If, for any reason, Senior Living Solutions learns that a provider has failed to meet or abide by before mentioned Standards and/or Terms of Use, the provider will be disqualified from continued participation in the Senior Living Solutions program.

What if there are no participating providers who meet my needs in my geographic area?
If there are no providers in the Senior Living Solutions network that meet your specific requirements, we will promptly notify you and give you the option to either save or permanently remove your information from the Senior Living Solutions secure database.  By opting to save your information in our database, we can notify you at a later date if a provider enters our network and is right for your personal needs.

What if we’re not satisfied with the service we receive from the provider?
Because all providers who participate in the Senior Living Solutions network are independently owned and operated, all customer satisfaction issues and/or complaints must be handled through the individual provider or company. To help make sure you receive the appropriate level of attention, Senior Living Solutions requires all participating providers to have a published policy regarding customer dispute resolution. If your complaint has gone unaddressed or you are dissatisfied with the response from one of our participating providers, please let us know. Providers who demonstrate a pattern of unresolved customer satisfaction complaints and/or problems can be terminated from participating in our program.

If I don’t pay for this service, who does?
Senior care providers pay a fee to be able to participate in the Senior Living Solutions program, allowing us to offer you the highest quality matching service at absolutely no cost to you.

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What Are You Creating Right Now? – Assisted Living Insights

January 31, 2009

WHAT ARE YOU CREATING RIGHT NOW?

“You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create your reality.”
Dr. Wayne Dyer

By Ruby MacDonald

For years I’ve been fascination by the human brain and its vast potential. First from a psychological v.p. & now from a spiritual view point, not in the religious sense, but in the more mystical/creative realm. I’m convinced that our ability to create begins in our brain; God created us to create. Creation begins with one tiny thought. It may come from within you, or someone else, and once you accept it as yours and begin to think about it, you’ve started the process of creation. The more emotion you have with that thought the more powerful is your ability to attract what you want. Once your brain gets the go-ahead from you, it springs into action and clicks in to perform your command perfectly. That is why it’s extremely important to be aware of your own thoughts and the words you say. Your brain doesn’t sort out positive from the negative; it waits for your command. It simply acts on your thought.
I’ve spent half of my life learning about and teaching how powerful the brain is and how important our thoughts are. When I was a kid I used to hear my father speak of the dreaded “evil eye” in his native Sicily. I snickered and thought it was a bunch of nonsense even though the stories made the hair on the back of my neck stand at attention. I’ve since learned about the power of the mind and believe that if I told you that something terrible was going to happen to you, and you believed me, YOU could make it happen simply by the power/energy/focus you give it; your own mind would work to carry out whatever you feared.
I believe that the power of the mind can also make us ill, or worse. One of my favorite examples of the power of suggestion is this one: During the winter months we are ambushed with news that the flu is epidemic. We’re sure we can’t escape it so we begin to worry. If we get the sniffles we’re certain we’ve got something that’s going around. We reinforce our fear by thinking that we have a cold, and we tell everyone who will listen. (It may have only been hay fever.) Next, we think we will be really sick, probably run a fever and by the end of the week we are certain we will be in bed vomiting or worse. Well, guess what? I believe that since we’ve programmed ourselves for a week full of illness— that is exactly what we will get. We’ve created it with our powerful minds. The brain has taken instructions and followed them exactly as we’ve prescribed it.
Arthritis is one of my pet peeves. If we break or sprain something doctors are quick to say arthritis will set in. My doc knows “I don’t do arthritis.” She snickers. I refer to it as the nasty “A” word. People take possession of arthritis as soon as they think they have it. I.E.: A younger friend’s fingers began aching; her mother had arthritis so she was certain she’d inherited it. (How many of us do that?) She took possession of it and referred to it as “my arthritis.” We had a little discussion and it “amazingly” disappeared! I believe strongly that it isn’t necessary to talk about any symptom or medical sentence your doctor has decreed for you. To acknowledge it is to reinforce it. Taking possession of it and making it yours only gives it permission to proceed. Once we start talking about it to others, it grabs that energy/power to accelerate. That energy can better be used to create positive thoughts of healing for yourself. Get the needed treatment. Then if you must tell someone, say, “I’m catching healing,” and let it go. You can tell those symptoms that they are not welcome in your body and to flee. You must believe it, however, and you must be persistent, for the habit of illness is like a child who pushes the envelope to see if you mean business.. It’s up to you to stick in there and show the old habit who is boss. It takes a while to break old habits and patterns, so don’t expect the symptoms to disappear quickly. Like a spoiled child who is suddenly being disciplined, there will be rebellion within. Remember to put lots of emotion behind your thoughts of healing and be persistent.
We are never too old or too sick or too busy, to have creative minds. We “create” every second of every day and it is either negative or positive —depleting energy or increasing energy.
We deplete our energy if we focus on a negative situation, be it our own or someone else’s. Our energy level plummets and a cloud of doom and gloom cloaks us. When we change our thought pattern to those that are sunny, energy levels are elevated to a healthier state; we are less vulnerable to illness & to attracting negative thinking people into our lives.. Thoughts are contagious. Choose wisely.

“As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.” — James Allen 1864-1912 (note the dates—this is not “new age” enlightenment, but time-proven.)

Where did all the fun go? – Senior Living Insights

November 26, 2008

Where did all the fun go?

by Ruby MacDonald
Senior Living Insights

“In the true person, there is a child concealed who wants to come out and play – Nietzsche

When was the last time you had any fun?
It seems that kids are always having fun, no matter what they do, or where they are. They overflow with energy as though they are about to explode with it.  But as they grow older, day by day, year by year, the ability to have fun seems to decrease and for some adults, to completely disappear from their lives.  What happened to this all-important part of life?

Usually responsibility takes over. It makes us serious and so goal oriented that we forget what living really means..  Making a living – a necessity. A few enjoy the process while many others  have no options but to work at jobs they do not enjoy   In either case,  we still need to make time to have fun.

Fun serves many purposes. For kids, it teaches social and new skills, confidence, and creates laughter. It is a carefree time. Adults need  play so that they can relax, enjoy interaction with people and expand their horizons. Everyone needs laughter.

Many people think they are playing when they are competing. When in fact they are creating stress for themselves. So playing to win doesn’t quality as fun.  True playing doesn’t involve trying to impress or please other people; it isn’t measured by results, production or external rewards.  True fun is pure enjoyment that allows us to be totally present in the moment, and it includes moments of laughter, a good belly laugh. Here are a few quotes to ponder:
Laugh longer – live louder” -  “The purpose of fun is to have it.” -  “In the beginning, it was fun.” “A playful path is the shortest road to happiness.”  And one I especially like is: “For every Way there’s a Way of following that Way that’s fun.” Try the following to add more spice to your life.

Think of play as enjoying the simple things that give you instant emotional rewards.
Try new things to push your limits that are fun.
Allow your imagination to flow freely
Be anything and everything you dream of such  as a ballerina, an artist, etc. if only for a day or in your imagination
Engage with nature and its creatures
Be silly, playful, spontaneous and curious
Go to the senior center and sign up for a fun trip
Participate in a new activity that you haven’t tried before right where you live.
Try painting if you’ve always wanted to be an artist.- you don’t have to paint a perfect picture, all that is required is that you have fun and enjoy the process.
Read something you can completely get lost in.
Laugh – do something that makes you laugh.
Listen to music
Plant something or buy a new plant to enjoy.
Notice new things as you walk down the same streets
Watch a funny movie
And lastly, keep a daily journal and before retiring list one thing for which you are grateful;  one way you had fun and how many times you laughed..

“You can’t ever just sit back and let things happen. Never give in…Never, never think about your age, and keep occupied until the end.” – Mary Martin

Senior Living Insights By Ruby MacDonald