Commun ty Matters Clay Center Presbyterian Manor
COMING UP IN COMMUNITY MATTERS:
May 2017
Communication key to loved one’s comfort Shawntelle Shute, MA, CCC/SLP
Summer memories
We will be featuring summertime, Independence Day, and vacation memories in an upcoming issue of Community Matters. If you have a story to tell about any of these topics, or if you just want to tell the world what you love about living in your senior living community, we want to share your story. If you’ve got a story to share, contact Heather Germann, marketing director, and your story could be featured in an upcoming edition of Community Matters.
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Will…check. Executor of the will… round and round and round….check. Beneficiaries…check.
You get the picture. As mom and dad start to age, we try to make sure they get everything needed done while they are still able to make their own decisions, because we, as their grown children, so badly want to give our parents what they want. Skip ahead…days, months, years. We never know how long it will be, if ever, that mom and/or dad will start to have what is often deemed as “behaviors.” We get that dreaded phone call from the senior living community, “Mr. Smith, your dad is not letting us give him a bath. He screams at us and tries to hit us. The other residents will not tolerate a resident stinking. We are going to have to figure out some way to get him to agree to a bath or shower.” We think about all of the things we might need to do as our parent’s age, but Communication
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