Preventing Excess Disability: Care Partnering versus Care Giving

Zoom Meeting

The loss of independence and self-control are the hard realities of a person with dementia. Aiding with bathing, dressing, and grooming can be the most stressful and challenging realities for the care partner. Learn the strategies and interventions that will allow for the decrease in power struggles and increase of positive feelings of the person […]

Free

Family Caregiver Support Group

Zoom Meeting

Don’t miss our next Support Group Meeting Tuesday, April 19th from 7:00-8:30pm! This informal support group will allow you to share openly about your current caregiving challenges in a confidential and safe environment. This support group meets monthly via Zoom. All those that RSVP will be sent the Zoom link prior to the support group […]

Free

It’s Not a Burden: The Humor and Heartache of Raising Elderly Parents (Caregiver Movie Night)

Seniors Helping Seniors 330 Bear Hill Road, Suite 305, Waltham, MA, United States

SHS will be hosting a movie night at the office on Thursday, April 21st, to watch the documentary film, It's Not a Burden: The Humor and Heartache of Raising Elderly Parents. This feature-length documentary provides an intimate look, presented with humor and heart, at the relationships between aging parents and the adult children who care for them, examining the […]

Free

Caregiver Support Group for SHS Employees

Zoom Meeting

As caregivers, we are often faced with challenging and emotional situations where some support from our peers can make a big difference. In the spirit of self-care, we have a Caregiver Support Group to provide an opportunity for caregivers to share (or just listen) to each other in a positive and supportive environment. Led by […]

Free

Optimizing Independence and Safety at Home for Seniors (An Event for SHS Caregivers)

Seniors Helping Seniors 330 Bear Hill Road, Suite 305, Waltham, MA, United States

SHS Caregivers please join us on Wednesday, May 4, when Jodi Bornstein, an occupational therapist at Hebrew SeniorLife, will offer tips and tricks for keeping seniors as safe and as independent as possible at home. This presentation will be held in-person at our office and will include ideas/tools for making clients' homes/environments safe(r) and tasks easier, […]

Walk to End Elder Isolation

Jamaica Pond Jamaica Pond, Boston, MA, United States

Join Team SHS at the 7th Annual Walk to End Elder Isolation by FriendshipWorks on May 15, 2022 at Jamaica Pond in Jamaica Plain. Registration and breakfast start at 9am and the walk at 9:30am for the 1.5 mile pond loop. From FriendshipWorks, "our mission is to reduce social isolation, enhance the quality of life, […]

Family Caregiver Support Group

Zoom Meeting

Don’t miss our next Support Group Meeting Tuesday, May 17th from 7:00-8:30pm! This informal support group will allow you to share openly about your current caregiving challenges in a confidential and safe environment. This support group meets monthly via Zoom. All those that RSVP will be sent the Zoom link prior to the support group […]

Free

Caregiver Support Group for SHS Employees

Seniors Helping Seniors 330 Bear Hill Road, Suite 305, Waltham, MA, United States

As caregivers, we are often faced with challenging and emotional situations where some support from our peers can make a big difference. In the spirit of self-care, we have a Caregiver Support Group to provide an opportunity for caregivers to share (or just listen) to each other in a positive and supportive environment. Led by […]

Free

Modern Pronouns: They is Correct

Seniors Helping Seniors 330 Bear Hill Road, Suite 305, Waltham, MA, United States

Using “they and them” in the singular may seem to go against what you learned about grammar in grade school, but you’ve probably been noticing a lot of people using the pronouns they/them instead of he/him or she/her… so many people that Massachusetts now offers M, F, and X gender markers on driver’s licenses, and […]

Free

New Date! Tips & Tools for Senior Safety at Home – June 8th

Seniors Helping Seniors 330 Bear Hill Road, Suite 305, Waltham, MA, United States

SHS Caregivers please join us at 4:30 on Wednesday, June 8th, when Jodi Bornstein, an occupational therapist at Hebrew SeniorLife, will offer tips and tricks for keeping seniors as safe and as independent as possible at home. This presentation will be held in-person at our office and will include ideas/tools for making clients' homes/environments safe(r) and […]

Free

Family Caregiver Support Group

Zoom Meeting

Don’t miss our next Support Group Meeting Tuesday, June 21st from 7:00-8:30pm! This informal support group will allow you to share openly about your current caregiving challenges in a confidential and safe environment. This support group meets monthly via Zoom. All those that RSVP will be sent the Zoom link prior to the support group […]

Free

Caregiver Support Group for SHS Employees (Rescheduled)

Zoom Meeting

This event has been rescheduled from June 27th. As caregivers, we are often faced with challenging and emotional situations where some support from our peers can make a big difference. In the spirit of self-care, we have a Caregiver Support Group to provide an opportunity for caregivers to share (or just listen) to each other […]

Free