Category: Caring for Older Adults

How to Become a Leader of Your Own Healthcare

posted June 2018 by Dianne Savastano

During my graduate program in the spring of 1999, I conducted a research project. In doing so, I used the work of Kouzes and Posner and their Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership to analyze interviews I conducted with 13 women in senior management positions. The behaviors demonstrated by these women (all in Jacksonville Florida, where… Read on…

Mothers, Daughters, and Our Changing Relationships

posted May 2018 by Dianne Savastano

If you are among the one in five baby boomer women managing multiple roles of working professional, mother, wife, daughter, and caregiver, today’s newsletter is for and about you. Men, please take note. This impacts you too! Caregiving One definition of a caregiver is, “An unpaid person attending to the needs of a dependent adult,… Read on…

Common Themes In Healthcare Today

posted February 2018 by Dianne Savastano

Today’s healthcare system can be both frustrating and confusing. I know this through firsthand experience since wherever I go, as soon as people learn of my profession, they follow-up with a list (sometimes quite a long list!) of questions. I resist providing too much specific advice – there is quite a bit of “it depends”… Read on…

Medicare Open Enrollment: What You Need to Know and Do

posted October 2017 by Dianne Savastano

This month’s newsletter is a bit more tactical than usual, so let me apologize up front for all the detail. It’s important, however, that you pay close attention and make careful choices during Open Enrollment, since these selections will be with you for the coming year. Ready? Here we go… First, lets review the basics…… Read on…

After The Move: The Importance of a Care Plan

posted May 2017 by Dianne Savastano

In long-term care facilities, the staff prepares a care plan that guides and directs the care they deliver to individuals. In last month’s newsletter, I recommended that you, as a family member, participate in the process of care plan development so that you can represent your loved one’s needs, wishes, preferences, and interests. (In… Read on…

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