Midnight Sun Home Care

What To Do When You Suspect Elder Abuse

midnightsuncare — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:21:55 +0000

Midnight Sun Home Care is dedicated to providing the safest and most comfortable care to our elder clients. This involves addressing the very real threat of elder abuse. This month’s blog posts will focus on helping elders and their loved ones to recognize, prevent and end elder abuse. It can be very upsetting and confusing […]

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How We Can Prevent Abuse in the Home

midnightsuncare — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:13:48 +0000

Most caregivers find it gratifying and enriching to provide care for an elderly individual. Often times the responsibilities and demands of care giving, which often escalate as the elder’s condition deteriorates, can be extremely stressful. The stress of being a care giver can lead to mental and physical health problems that make caregivers feel burnt […]

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Family Smarts!

midnightsuncare — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:14:37 +0000

The first and most important step toward preventing elder abuse is to recognize that no one — of whatever age — should be subjected to violent, abusive, humiliating or neglectful behavior. In addition to promoting this social attitude, we can take positive steps such as educating people about elder abuse, increasing the availability of respite […]

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Midnight Sun Home Care and Alaska Dinner Factory Present "Senior Fun Day"

midnightsuncare — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:15:25 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANCHORAGE, AK, June 28, 2023 - Midnight Sun Home Care, a leading provider of quality elderly home care services in Anchorage, Alaska, is proud to announce its partnership with Alaska Dinner Factory for this year's "Senior Fun Day." The event will take place on Saturday, July 15, 2023, at 9 AM AKDT […]

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Two Anchorage Businesses: Well on Their Way to Senior Friendly

midnightsuncare — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:03:26 +0000

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)

midnightsuncare — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 09:30:05 +0000

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

midnightsuncare — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 04:52:33 +0000

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!

midnightsuncare — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 07:38:05 +0000

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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Holiday Shopping Hints

midnightsuncare — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:46:23 +0000

The holidays are here and boy did they come quickly!! How many of you have not accomplished your shopping yet? I’ll admit I sure haven’t. Like many of us around here we get carried away with work, kids, school, holiday parties, sports events, you name it! Shopping is usually last on the list and that’s […]

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Let's Be Senior Friendly!

midnightsuncare — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:17:33 +0000

Alaska's senior population is growing at a faster rate in comparison to the lower 48 states. In the past, many Alaskan seniors spent their early senior years snow-birding: leaving Alaska during the winter months and returning for the summer months. Once they could no longer sustain this seasonal pattern, many would move to warmer retirement […]

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