Viki interviews Lori La Bey from http://www.seniorlifestyletrends.com and http://www.AlzheimersSpeaks.com on August 30, 9AM Pacific on blogtalkradio.com/kindethics

Viki interviews Lori La Bey from http://www.seniorlifestyletrends.com and http://www.AlzheimersSpeaks.com on August 30, 9AM Pacific on blogtalkradio.com/kindethics

Lori La Bey of Alzheimer’s Speaks and Senior Lifestyle Trends is a driver of Change. She helps families, communities, organizations, and businesses maneuver the turmoil of aging and illness. She has dedicated her life to working with people in transition. Lori has done this by guiding businesses and organizations on how to improve service delivery to enhance relationships with senior consumers and their families. Lori’s mission is to shift society’s negative perception of aging and illness, by getting individuals and businesses to appreciate and embrace the gifts wrapped in every stage of life. She believes by removing the fear, the embarrassment, and the judgment that cripples our relationships; we can enhance our connections with the people we love and care for.

Lori understands Caregiving from the inside out. She lost her Father to brain cancer after a 4 ½ year battle. Her Mother has struggled with Alzheimer’s for 30 years and is now in her end stages of the disease. Today she shares tips and techniques she learned as a Caregiver. Her goal is to help people embrace the person who once was, engage the person before them, and let go; allowing love to flow forward; as the ill and aging surrender to the shell of a body that in prisons them.

Lori owns Alzheimer’s Speaks and Seniors Lifestyle Trends. She was recently featured on FOX News for her cutting edge work with Alzheimer’s disease. Lori is a Speaker, Trainer, Consultant, Spokes Person, Author, and now a self proclaimed Advocate on Steroids for Alzheimer’s disease.

Lori is also writing a book on Alzheimer’s disease which will teach people to:
Remove their fear of Alzheimer’s by helping them identify stress triggers so they can reduce combative behaviors and create remarkable moments. The books working title is called: “Alzheimer’s Speaks -Guiding Caregivers to be Their Very Best! Giving Voice and Enriching Lives – As the Cookie Crumbles.”

You can contact Lori La Bey at any of the following:
Resource Website http://www.AlzheimersSpeaks.com
Blog http://www.AlzheimersSpeaksBlog.com
Business Website Http://www.SeniorLifestyleTrends.com
Email Lori@SeniorLifestyleTrends.com
Lori@AlzheimersSpeaks.com
Phone 651-748-4714 or 800-708-8661

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Join Viki as she will be speaking at Aegis of Granada Hills – Assisted Living and Memory Care on Thursday, August 19th from 6:30-8:00.

Join Viki as she will be speaking at Aegis of Granada Hills – Assisted Living and Memory Care on Thursday, August 19th from 6:30-8:00.

About Aegis:

Five-star service is what sets Aegis of Granada Hills apart from the competition. Our beautifully designed retirement community was built with the needs of seniors in mind, while still being visually pleasing to everyone. Conveniently located near shopping, recreation, health facilities and freeway access, we have accommodations to suit a variety of needs – from a senior who simply doesn’t want to cook and clean any longer, to someone who needs total care because of mental or physical decline. And we do it all with dignity, love and attention to the finer details that make life better. Come see our retirement community’s studio, one- or two-bedroom, independent-style apartments and sample a lunch by our fantastic chef, Jose. Or call and ask about respite, a short-term option for those who only need a couple of weeks to a month-long stay.
Visit Aegis of Granada Hills today to sample our meals or take a tour of our retirement community for active seniors and for those needing additional care. Aegis of Granada Hills also provides care for residents with Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias.
Please call if you would like to schedule a personalized visit at Aegis, including sampling a meal, taking a tour, or participating in our daily activities program.
10801 Lindley Ave Granada Hills, CA 91344 Phone: 818-492-4077 Fax: 818-363-1933

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Viki interviews Dr. Sandra Haymon, author of Baby Boomers – Sandwiched Between Retirement and Caregiving on August 25, 9am Pacific on blogtalkradio.com/kindethics

Viki interviews Dr. Sandra Haymon, author of Baby Boomers – Sandwiched Between Retirement and Caregiving on August 25, 9am on blogtalkradio.com/kindethics

Baby Boomers – Sandwiched Between Retirement and Caregiving is a fun and sometimes funny look at caring for our elderly loved ones. It’s filled with humorous do’s and don’ts of caregiving and thoughts you need to think about retiring. If you’re one of the 78 million in the Silver Tsunami you need Dr. Haymon’s lighthearted yet practical solutions to retiring and caregiving. Do you need a seat belt for the emotional roller-coaster of caregiving? This book is for you. If you’ve ever felt like you were drowning in the Alphabet Soup of medical terms and legal jargon this book is for you. Whether you’re retiring, retreading, or just free falling, this book is your parachute. Ever feel like you’re on a tight rope trying to balance working, planning for retirement, taking care of immediate family members and caring for elderly loved ones all at the same time? This book is for you. Baby Boomers—Sandwiched Between Retirement & Caregiving is the first and most complete how-to manual which addresses personal questions related to retirement, caring for elderly loved ones and taking care of one’s immediate family which may include adult children still living at home and perhaps even grandchildren. In simple, easy-to-understand language Dr. Haymon guides readers thru this entire process including medical choices, end-of-life decisions, advance directives, possible living arrangements, and how to say good bye before and after the death of loved ones. She also helps readers plan for retirement including how to avoid unnecessary taxes, probate, and other culprits that could threaten individual nest eggs, and explores the importance of a dress rehearsal prior to retiring. Personal and professional caregivers of all ages will refer to this invaluable resource over and over again! http://babyboomerssandwich.com/

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I will be interviewing Jerry Wayne from the North Valley Jewish Community Center on August 18th, 9AM Pacific

On August 18th, 9AM Pacific, I will be interviewing Jerry Wayne from the North Valley Jewish Community Center, Inc. The North Valley Jewish Community Center (NVJCC) is a non-profit organization, founded upon Jewish ethics and values. “The-J”, Your Jewish Community Center is committed to meeting the ever changing needs of the entire Jewish Community, to strengthening Jewish identity and to enrich the quality of Jewish life. Our objective is to facilitate programs that benefit our children, families, adults, and seniors, and in so doing to support the entire community for generations to come.

If you are a senior looking for new friends and new things to do, we invite you to join the NVJCC Senior Club.
 
Our active group of seniors 70+ has traveled to San Diego to see The Dead Sea Scrolls, to Palm Springs to see The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies, and enjoyed plays in Glendale at the Glendale Center Theater.  We have visited the Skirball Museum, enjoyed lunches at neighborhood restaurants and have heard many wonderful speakers on current or provocative events.  We have also celebrated holidays together and enjoyed new friendships.

We meet on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at Temple Ramat Zion, corner of Devonshire Blvd and White Oak in Northridge at 1:00 P.M. Come join us.  Friendships are very important and you can make some long lasting ones at our Seniors Club.  

For more Information, call Mollie Mole’ at (818) 360-9384 or the NVJCC Office at (818) 360-2211.

http://www.nvjcc.org

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Join me for “A Year to Live” discussion with Debra Joy and Alison Demer on August 20th, 11am Pacific on blogtalkradio.com/kindethics

Join me for “A Year to Live” discussion with Debra Joy and Alison Demer on August 20th, 11am Pacific on blogtalkradio.com/kindethics

I will be interviewing Debra Joy from Bcelebrated.com and Alison Dermer as they discuss their journey through A Year to Live. They are living this year as if this is the last year of their life. There are powerful lessons to be learned when we remember that life is short and we should live life to its fullest. You can read more about their journey at http://bcelebrated.blogspot.com.

Bcelebrated.com is a wonderful website where you can:

Create your autobiographical legacy website.
Share your story with your words, images and audio.
Write password protected private messages for loved ones.
Automatically email your community when you pass away.
Leave a permanent site where your friends and family will celebrate your life.

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When you are going the wrong way, turn around.

When we are making the decisions for those in our care, it is important to make sure that the decision is still working. You may find that you made the best medical decision you could and then the plan didn’t work. When this happens, it is important to reconsider the treatment plan. Otherwise, you’re driving down the wrong road: You can keep driving and driving, but you will never get to where you are going. You need to stop, ask for new directions and then start down a new path.

You may also need to modify your expectations when things don’t work. Sometimes we are so desperate for the plan to work that we can’t bear to see the truth when the plan fails. You are not helping your loved one by continuing treatments that don’t work. You are only subjecting the patient to needless side effects and increased suffering. One thing that doctors may want to do is to try a time-limited trial of a proposed treatment option. “Let’s try it for a few days or for a little while and see how it goes.” This is a really great option. After the set time expires, you can check to see if the decision is working. If it is not working, go back through the decision making process and make a better decision based on the new information about the patient’s changing condition. Don’t be stubborn and keep driving your loved one in the wrong direction. Take this as an opportunity to turn around and get it right.

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Stop! The plan isn’t working as expected.

Sometimes, in spite of our best efforts, the plan we designed for the person in our care, doesn’t work or stops working. When this happens, it is important to reconsider the treatment plan. Otherwise, you’re driving down the wrong road: You can keep driving and driving, but you will never get to where you are going. You need to stop, ask for new directions and then start down a new path.

We may also need to help patients/families modify their expectations when things don’t work. Sometimes people are so desperate for the plan to work that they can’t bear to see the truth when the plan fails. You are not helping your your patient by continuing treatments that don’t work. You are only subjecting the patient to needless side effects and increased suffering.

One thing you may want to try more often is a time-limited trial of a proposed treatment option. Explain to the family, “Let’s try it for a few days or for a little while and see how it goes.” This is a really great option because it helps the patient/family feel like you are trying but it also gives them a reality check when it doesn’t work. You will want to give them specific symptoms to look for, (that they can understand), so they can see with their own eyes that the plan has failed.

After the set time expires, you can check to see if the decision is working. If it is not working, go back through the decision making process and make a better decision based on the new information about the patient’s changing condition. Don’t be stubborn and keep driving your patients in the wrong direction. Take this as an opportunity to turn around and get it right.

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Leeza’s Place will be hosting an End of Life presentation on 7/29/10 from 6-7:30pm PST

Viki will be giving an End of Life presentation at Leeza’s Place in Sherman Oaks, CA on 7/29/10 from 6-7:30pm PST

Leeza Gibbons develped Leeza’s Place for both family caregivers and the recently diagnosed with chronic illness or disease, that integrates educational programs, connective social activities, emotional support, and intergenerational programming designed to help you navigate through your community’s continuum of care.

Leeza’s Place was designed to ensure that others would have access to new, supportive settings created for the purpose of educating, empowering and energizing.

The cornerstone of each Leeza’s Place is a specially trained “Leeza Care Advocate” whose primary responsibility is to guide caregivers and their loved ones through the emotionally charged maze of memory disorders: educationally, supportively, and confidently.

Each Leeza’s Place has been carefully crafted to empower both the caregiver and the recently diagnosed by offering services that create self esteem, relieve symptoms, impart knowledge, reduce stress, promote inclusion, and ultimately improve the quality of life while helping you to acquire advocacy, coping and care-related skills.

All of the programs at Leeza’s Place are the direct result of listening to and understanding the unique needs, values, pressures and goals of caregivers and their loved ones. Programs have been designed to provide educational and empowering strategies that are not currently available.

Although services may vary from site to site, each Leeza’s Place locale will provide programs that offer support on three levels – emotional, educational and social – for caregivers, families and their recently diagnosed loved ones.

Leeza’s Place is the signature program of the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation. For a list of Leeza’s Place locations across the country, please click HERE.

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Viki will be a guest on Winning Life Through Pain radio show with Coach Marla on 7/27/10 at 11am PST

Viki will be a guest on Winning Life Through Pain radio show with Coach Marla on 7/27/10 at 11am PST.

Winning Life Through Pain® is a show that chats with varying types of amazing guests as if they are all sitting around the same kitchen table including chronic Pain/Illness Individuals, Authors, and they chat with the experts as well. Coach Marla believes we all have a journey we must travel through life and it is her mission to make your journey one full of “Laughter, Hope, Knowledge, Fulfillment, and Joy” so you might get through the tough times a little easier!

Coach Marla offers RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) coaching as well as hosting the Winning Life Through Pain radio show.

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Listen to blogtalkradio’s Healing through Hurt radio show with Maria Wall

Viki will be a special guest on blogtalkradio’s Healing through Hurt radio show with Maria Wall on July 24, 2010 at 8pm PST.

Healing through Hurt Talk Radio with Maria Wall is a subsidiary of The Wall Foundation Inc. a Non Profit community based 501 (c)(3) organization! Serving at risk, vulnerable youth and their families including seniors! Offering a host of programs for families. This year their focus is on women and the challenges they face in their daily lives from abuse and esteem issues to the many health issues they face. Their mission is to empower and uplift real women & men with real stories. Reaching out through Radio to a broader audience of females & males of all ages and ethnic origin. They promise to continue to bring you the absolute best in show guests and topics.

In 2003 Maria Wall, President of the CM Wall Company Inc, saw a need to give our young people a voice and purpose outside of the vicious cycles they were accustomed to in addition to the lack of adult guidance for a host of reasons. Mrs. Wall developed a youth media / professional program that won international awards.

Although Mrs. Wall operated her program under the umbrella of other established non profit programs, she felt a need to do more. Therefore in 2008 she formed The Wall Foundation Inc. An organization that realized these are tough and hard times for our youth and their families. Mrs.
Wall is the little girl with big dreams who grew up to make them reality!

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