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Two Anchorage Businesses: Well on Their Way to Senior Friendly

Last week, we asked you to start looking for businesses in our community that have senior-friendly qualities. Well, we subscribed to our own request and put our senior-friendly hats on too. This week, we’d like to profile two very different Anchorage businesses that meet some of the preliminary criteria for senior-friendly designation. If you frequent […]

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How to Become a Senior Friendly Business (Or Recognize One)

It’s always time to support our elders in the community, but the holiday season is a particularly opportune time to consider new ways of doing that. In that spirit, we’d like to provide information that can you help you to support elders not only during this busy shopping season, but also throughout the year—by encouraging […]

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SCR 13: Alaska’s Backbone for Senior Friendly Communities

A key component for success with our Senior Friendly Project is national and state support, on a legislative level, of seniors and Senior Caregiving professions. It’s imperative that our leaders convey the importance of providing resources to our growing senior population and foster an attitude that acknowledges the challenges that our seniors face and the […]

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Introducing: The Anchorage Senior Friendly Project!

Our founder and president, Kevin Turkington, is a member of the Municipality of Anchorage Senior Citizens Advisory Commission and serves on the board of the Mabel T Caverly Senior Center. As such, he’s been a proud participant in developing a Senior Friendly Project in Anchorage, with the goal of improving shopping experiences for our older […]

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Veterans and PTSD

It wasn’t until 1980 that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was added to the American Psychiatric Association’s manual of mental disorders—but that doesn’t mean it didn’t exist before then. It just means that the suite of symptoms resulting in some individuals who experienced a traumatic event was given a name and a more direct pathway […]

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Caring for Aging Veterans

In honor of Veterans Day, November 11th, we’ve dedicated this month’s blog posts to our country’s veterans.   We’ll try to provide context for the common challenges faced by our veterans in order to better provide support, where possible. A good number of our aging population is comprised of veterans. And sadly, there is also evidence […]

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Listening to Our Veterans

In honor of Veterans Day, November 11th, we’ve dedicated this month’s blog posts to our country’s veterans.    We’ll try to provide context for the common challenges faced by our veterans in order to better provide support, where possible. Veterans Day isn’t just a day to acknowledge our country’s veterans. It’s a time to honor […]

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Veterans’ Benefits: Knowing the Basics

In honor of Veterans Day, November 11th, we’ve dedicated this month’s blog posts to our country’s veterans.   We’ll try to provide context for the common challenges faced by our veterans in order to better provide support, where possible. If we are not veterans ourselves, many of us have the desire to express our gratitude and […]

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Caregiving Stress Part II: It Hits Women the Hardest

The health profession defines caretaker’s stress syndrome as a debilitating condition brought on by unrelieved, constant caring for a person with a chronic illness or dementia. It is beginning to be recognized as a serious health issue, but it is still rarely discussed. The medical profession has only recently become aware of the toll that […]

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Caregiver’s Stress Syndrome: Let’s Start Talking About It

If they ever submitted a bill for service, it would come to over $450 billion. That's how much work is contributed every year by the nation's unpaid health caretakers. On any given day, almost 66 million Americans are providing informal health care to ill, aged or disabled patients. Usually it's for a family member, and […]

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