by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Aging, Holidays
The winter sky burned bright with shades of orange on the night he died. It had been rainy and gloomy for the past week but that day, the sunset was strikingly beautiful. It seemed a fitting tribute for the Air Force Navigator, as if the heavens had reached down to...
by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Aging, Family Home Care, Senior Care
How can we protect our loved ones as they age? It’s a common question with an endless amount of answers. As our loved one’s age, families and caregivers can often find themselves in the midst of the legal complexities of elder law. What is elder law, and how can it...
by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Aging, Holidays
When I started brainstorming for a Christmas blog, one of the ideas that came to me would be to talk to our loved ones and elders. We are all descendants of immigrants, and within our office we have parents from Italy and grandparents from Russia, Ireland and Nova...
by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Family Home Care, Health
This Blog is in honor of Pancreatic Cancer Awareness month and dedicated to my Uncle Hugh Sheridan, gone much too soon. It was a purple ribbon. Just a purple ribbon. But I put it religiously on every coat I wore, taking care to make sure the ribbon sat straight...
by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Holidays, Uncategorized
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place: and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead: Short days ago, We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved:...
by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Aging, Senior Care, Uncategorized
My grandmother never drove during most of her married life. Her husband was a car lover and did all the driving. That was until one day he purchased an old station wagon for his wife to drive while she was down on Cape Cod with the kids. It was quickly turned into a...
by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Aging, Senior Care
At Greater Boston Home Health Care Services, we pride ourselves on being LGBT-Friendly and gender affirming. We recognize the importance of ensuring that LGBT-Seniors are not only able to access the care and services they need, but feel welcome and safe by our trained...
by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Family Home Care, Senior Care
I was in Milwaukee, seated lazily on the couch in my apartment while my friend and I waited for my roommate to get ready. In between small-talk, my friend mentioned his Polish ancestry and how his Grandmother had come over from Poland. When I queried when she had come...
by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Aging, Family Home Care, Health
A Response to Joyce Carol Oates’s Statement on How We Talk About Cancer As news broke last week that Senator John McCain had cancer, support poured out from across the country. It was devastating to learn that this American Hero, who survived horrendous treatment as a...
by Greater Boston Home Health Care Services | Aging, Family Home Care, Senior Care
Whoever’s idea it was to get my grandmother an iPhone was going to pay dearly. She was sitting at the table seated next to my mother yelling at Siri, as if the automated voice would listen to her angry instructions to be quiet. I’m sure it’s a familiar scene to many...
