By: Sheila Kun RN, BA, BSN, MS Abstracted by Sheila Kun RN, BA, BSN, MS From The Overwhelmed Woman’s Guide to … Caring for Aging Parents By Julie-Allyson Ieron Helping the seniors feel trustworthy and valuable are not the only tools we can deplore to work with grumpy old men and women. What if no positive talk or loving action can help? That’s when another … Continue reading Caring for seniors Part III
By: Luis ChaconProvince Coordinator for Volunteers Saint Mary’s Parish and the Salesian Family Youth Center are a combined Youth Ministry operating under the leadership of CYM Miriam Hernandez. For the second year during Holy Week St. Mary’s hosted Pascua Juvenil ( Youth Lenten Retreat). The theme was “I Choose to be Holy” and was led by a young adult ministry Heaven Bound and other lay … Continue reading Easter at Saint Mary’s Parish and the Salesian Family Youth Center
By: Sheila Kun RN, BSN, MS, CPN, FCCP Abstracted by Sheila Kun RN, BA, BSN, MS From The Overwhelmed Woman’s Guide to … Caring for Aging Parents By Julie-Allyson Ieron Last week we began to explore ways to help seniors cope with their loss of independence due to aging by in depth discussion on these two strategies: Easing the tension and helping them Feel loved. … Continue reading Caring for seniors Part II
By: Sheila Kun RN, BSN, MS, CPN, FCCP Understanding that grief over lost independence is one of the contributory factors for seniors to be grumpy would be the first step to cope with such tantrums. In 2002 the National Institutes of Health held a “Successful Aging” seminar. In synthesizing the information presented at the seminar Dr. Judy Salerno, who directs the NIH’s National Institute on … Continue reading Emotions and elders
By: Luis ChaconProvince Coordinator for Volunteers On Thursday, March 24th, the Boyle Heights Youth Ministry organized the already traditional “Youth Night” for the Confirmation Program. The month’s theme was Catholic Social Teachings and was hosted at the Salesian Family Youth Center. We began at 6:30 pm with the Core Team preparing all the material for prayers and learning about Catholic Social Teachings. I have been … Continue reading English Youth Night: Catholic Social Teachings
I was given a book by a dear friend to help me understand how to care for aging parents. The title is “The Overwhelmed Woman’s Guide to …. Caring for Aging Parents” by Ms. Julie-Allyson Ieron. I am going to share some of the chapters that captured my attention. The chapter on the “Grumpy Old Men and Women” presented a vivid discussion of the reasons … Continue reading Caring for aging parents
