If you missed my last week’s radio show, you missed Gary Owens and his wonderful sharing as a caregiving spouse. Gary is many things: a problem solver, entrepeneur, cabinet builder, inventor of TenderCare beds. But, as he says, his most important role in life is being caregiver to his wife Gina.
14 years ago when Gina became disabled, their world changed forever…shrinking to one room with an institutional hospital bed. That bed became a constant reminder of her illness. She didn’t want family to visit because she didn’t want them to see her like that. Gary knew he had to somehow change that ugly hospital bed into Click to continue
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There are some wonderful companies out there creating technology-based products and services to help adult daughters/sons and our aging parents.
I want to highlight one such company and product, FineThanx. Before I describe the service, think about the following:
- How many of our parents forget to wear their PERS (personal emergency alert systems)? I venture to say, quite a few.
- We’ve heard the statistics. One in every 3 persons aged 65+ falls each year.
- With the growing desire to age in place and the risk of falling at home alone, wouldn’t it be great to have an automated system that checks on your loved one every 24 hours and communicates their status to their whole Circle of Care (including children that live far away)?
Peter Sharff, founder of FineThanx, developed an automated call system as a result of a person experience with his grandmother who fell, did not use her alert button and was not found for 2 days. The company’s tagline is “make every day independence day.” This service does indeed meet the aging parent’s desire to age in place, and also meets the adult daughter/son’s concern for their parent’s safety.
The service is:
- simple to set up and use
- well-designed and tested
- automated
- flexible
- supports an aging parent’s independence and desire to age-in-place
How it works: Click to continue
