A telephone reassurance service daily check-in call or calls can be valuable. The service is a safety tool which provides a degree of peace of mind for the call recipient and the people who care for that person.
BUT, the reassurance call is necessarily efficient
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Category Archives: Living Alone
Pure Joy – A Meditation Reply
Snowshoeing with Gail on a brilliant spring day in the Rocky Mountain foothills was so profoundly joyous that to recall the experience is to feel the joy once again.
As a youngster of eight or nine visiting the “farm” and on the first morning rising with the sun, walking down the road by myself to a slough to pick cattails for my Aunt, was so full of joy that the visual, the smells, the sounds are fully and intensely available to me today, many decades later. More…
Latch-Key Kids are at Home Alone
Today the definition of the family unit, with children, includes single parents, couples, divorced or separated couples, and other less common arrangements. Regardless of the makeup of the family unit the need to understand and deal with young children at home alone may arise. More specifically, the problem presented by children coming home from school to an empty home may need to be addressed. These home alone children are often referred to as latch-key kids. More…
Survival in the World of Living Alone 1
Falls in the Home (and more)
“Some people believe that falls are a normal part of aging, and as such are not preventable. But this is false. Falls usually are caused by certain health conditions (due to normal physical changes of aging or from illness) and/or environmental hazards in the home interfering with safety.” (Dr. Rein Tideiksaar Ph.D.). More…
