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CNA
14 hours ago
- Business
- CNA
Eldercare services firm gets S$7,000 fine over death of 76-year-old whose wheelchair fell off an elevated platform
SINGAPORE: A company that provides eldercare services was ordered to pay a S$7,000 (US$5,400) fine on Tuesday (Jun 3) after a senior under its care died when his wheelchair rolled off a van platform during transportation. Mr Hassan Mohamed Karchi Arsan Osman's head struck the ground and he died of a head injury. The 76-year-old was a client of Active Global Respite Care, which provided transportation services for elderly clients, among other eldercare services. The company was on Tuesday convicted of a charge under the Workplace Safety and Health Act for failing to implement control measures and safe work procedures to minimise the risks of using a wheelchair lift. Another charge of a similar nature under the same Act was taken into consideration for sentencing. The company owned two vans that took clients between their homes and a senior care centre located along Ghim Moh Link. During the transportation process, a healthcare assistant would be present in each van to help. At the back of each vehicle was a wheelchair lift, which was a platform that could be raised or lowered so that wheelchair users could board or alight from the van. Van driver Kwa Kim Seng, 67, and the healthcare assistant Moe Thadar, 49, both employees of the company, were helping Mr Hassan to board the van via the platform when the incident happened. Each was previously sentenced to a S$10,000 fine for their roles in Mr Hassan's death. On Feb 3, 2021 at about 4.40pm, the van driven by Kwa was at a daycare centre's pick-up point. Mr Hassan was among the elders to be taken home and Moe Thadar wheeled him onto the platform. However, she failed to engage the brakes of his wheelchair. As she walked away, she told Kwa: 'Uncle, hold.' This was to inform him that Mr Hassan was ready to be lifted, so Kwa proceeded to raise the wheelchair lift platform from the back of the van while holding onto the wheelchair and chatting with a colleague. As the platform was about to be level with the van's interior floor, Kwa removed his grip on the wheelchair before the healthcare assistant within the vehicle had a hold on it. The wheelchair rolled backwards, fell off the platform and Mr Hassan's head struck the ground. The back of his head bled from the impact. He was taken to the hospital unconscious and died that night, with his cause of death certified to be a head injury. The prosecution said that the company relied merely on verbal communication of safety measures when employees were getting training on the job. The company lacked a documented risk assessment on the transportation of their clients using a van with a wheelchair lift. The Ministry of Manpower's prosecutor Kimberly Boo told the court: "Before the fatal incident, there were inconsistencies in handling wheelchair users on wheelchair lifts as employees taught new employees based on what they were taught, relying on memory and a verbal chain of communication." Active Global Respite Care also did not have documented procedures to guide employees on safety measures for the use of the wheelchair lift. The defence lawyers, Ms Gloria James-Civetta and Ms Noelle Teoh, said the company was appointed by the Ministry of Health and the Agency for Integrated Care to operate the Ghim Moh centre. They argued for their client to be given a fine of not more than S$5,000. Although the harm was high, the culpability was low in this case, the lawyers said, referring to the firm's unblemished record. "The incident was an isolated and unprecedented occurrence that tragically resulted in the passing of the late Mr Hassan. "Prior to the incident ... Active Global had operated in Singapore for several years without any record of similar serious incidents or accidents." The lawyers also argued that there were protocols and procedures to protect the passengers but they were not followed in this instance. "It is acknowledged that control measures in place were insufficient to ensure that staff members complied with the safety protocols intended to minimise the risks associated with using the wheelchair lift at the rear of the van. "However, the defence submits that this lapse was due to negligence, not intentional wrongdoing." In mitigation, the lawyers highlighted that the company and its representatives have accepted responsibility and fully cooperated with the authorities, in addition to pleading guilty at the earliest opportunity. Since the incident, the company has addressed gaps in its safety protocols and has deployed more workers at drop-off and pick-up points to enhance safety. "Weekly checks have also been implemented to ensure compliance with (standard operating procedures), with stern warnings and retraining issued to any non-compliant staff," they said.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
‘They are the backbone': Trump's targeting of legal immigrants threatens health sector
The Trump administration's efforts to strip protections from more than half a million legal immigrants could devastate the health sector, endangering care for the elderly and worsening rates of both chronic and infectious diseases. Hundreds of thousands of health care workers, including an estimated 30,000 legal immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, are at risk of being deported — worrying providers and patients who rely on them for everything from nursing and physical therapy to maintenance, janitorial, foodservice and housekeeping work. Goodwin Living, a faith-based, not-for-profit elder care complex just across the Potomac River from D.C., is poised to lose 65 staff members following Supreme Court rulings on Friday and earlier in May that gavethe Trump administration permission to terminate humanitarian parole and temporary protected status issued by prior presidents to migrants from several countries plagued by poverty and violence. 'I just can't even imagine the impact it would have on those of us that are cared for on a daily basis if we were to suddenly lose them,' said Jill Miller, who has resided at Goodwin Living for eight years with her husband Carl. 'They're the backbone.' Goodwin is one of hundreds of long-term care facilities around the country that employ immigrants whose legal status will soon end, and its leaders have joined a chorus of providers from Florida to California warning that the Trump administration's crackdown will decimate care capacity and facilitate the spread of communicable diseases, putting U.S. citizens at risk. These vulnerabilities underscore the precarity of the nation's patchwork immigration system. Immigrants — both documented and undocumented — make up a disproportionate share of the health care workforce, particularly in areas like long-term care for the elderly and people with disabilities, and their expulsion would make existing shortages much worse. Yet Congress' decades-long inability to enact permanent fixes has left millions dependent on executive actions and discretionary programs that can be upended every time a new administration takes power — a situation people on all sides of the immigration debate agree is unsustainable. Even conservatives who favor President Donald Trump's decision to end humanitarian parole and temporary protected status acknowledge that doing so could harm several sectors of the economy — including agriculture and construction in addition to health care — but they argue the Biden administration misused those programs as a backdoor means of ushering in more permanent migration. 'There are valid concerns, absolutely,' said Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. 'But the solution we need is for Congress to determine what level of immigration we need, what skill level we need, what the conditions are, and then to pass laws. You can't just completely bypass Congress with executive action on immigration and expect this fragile edifice that we set up to survive.' The administration, meanwhile, dismisses the health industry's concerns. 'The assertion that the only way we can take care of our seniors is by allowing unvetted illegal aliens and foreigners with criminal records to remain in the country is grossly false and lazy,' DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to POLITICO. 'If people want to come to our country to be caregivers for our seniors, they need to do that by coming here the legal way.' When asked specifically about workers with temporary protected status and humanitarian parole — who entered the country legally after being vetted and sponsored — the agency did not respond. Past presidents have extended legal protections and work permits to hundreds of thousands of immigrants under those programs because they face dangerous conditions in their home countries. The Trump administration is simultaneously ramping up enforcement, including in formerly off-limits spaces like hospitals and clinics. That's causing immigrants and their citizen relatives to avoid all kinds of medical care — from testing and treatment for infectious diseases to preventive care for chronic conditions like diabetes, driving up costs for taxpayers and threatening public health more broadly. 'If they're afraid to even go to work or send their kids to school, they're certainly afraid to come to doctors' visits,' said Sandy Reding, an emergency room nurse in Bakersfield and the president of the California Nurses Association. 'They're not seeking medical attention when they should, and we're seeing time and time again that those delays in care are making things worse.' Reding said an uptick in Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity targeting her area's large population of migrant farmworkers has caused many to avoid care for conditions like diabetes and elevated blood pressure — leading to preventable amputations or strokes. 'And when it comes to things like measles and bird flu that are easily spread, it poses a threat to the whole community,' she said. 'The quality of care will be poor' A study published in the medical journal JAMA in April calculated that about a million non-citizen immigrants work in health care, including more than 366,500 who are undocumented. And no sector of the sprawling health care system would be harder hit by mass deportations than long-term care for the elderly and people with disabilities — where immigrants make up nearly 30 percent of the direct care workforce. In an amicus brief opposing the Trump administration's bid to cancel humanitarian parole for half a million workers, the attorneys general for 15 states and Washington, D.C. noted that immigrants make up more than three quarters of home health aides in New York and nearly half in California. On Friday, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration the green light to begin deporting about a half-million immigrants who entered the U.S. legally under humanitarian parole programs implemented during the Biden administration. The decision came less than two weeks after the justices granted another immigration-related emergency request from the administration, allowing officials to end temporary protected status for approximately 350,000 Venezuelans. Given already severe shortages of workers for typically low-paid and challenging care economy jobs, and a looming spike in demand for long-term care services as Baby Boomers age, the elder care industry is warning of an impending crisis. Rob Liebreich, the CEO of Goodwin Living, worries he may have to accept fewer residents and cut back services if his workers are deported. Reducing the supply of long-term care workers amid increasing demand will also drive up the cost of services as facilities compete for those who remain, he said. That, in turn, could force more aging Americans to depend on untrained family members as caregivers, which then pulls those people out of the paid workforce. 'It'll be a real drain on the overall economy,' he said. 'But more importantly, I just don't want to let down the current American older adult population, and we're absolutely going to let them down by not having enough hands to provide the services and support that they deserve and expect.' LeadingAge — an advocacy group representing thousands of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, hospice programs and retirement homes around the country — echoed Liebreich's fears in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security in April, pleading with the agency to reconsider ending the parole program. They did not receive a response. The Trump administration acknowledged some of these concerns in its March executive order canceling humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, noting that there will be repercussions both for the individuals and their employers. Still, the order argued, both the immigrants and their employers knew that the protections were temporary and subject to the discretion of the federal government, and they should have applied for more permanent status. Liebreich said that while Goodwin has helped over 200 workers become citizens over the past decade and has set up the 65 currently at risk to meet with immigration attorneys, the Trump administration is closing off many of the other programs they would have been eligible for — like temporary protected status — and not giving them enough time to navigate the process. 'They thought they had two years to work with, not mere months,' he said. Saudatu Savage, a registered nurse at Goodwin Living who came as a refugee from Sierra Leone more than two decades ago and is now a U.S. citizen, said it will make her job much harder if dozens of her coworkers are forced to leave. 'It's going to be a disaster,' she said. 'There are not a lot of nurses out there, and there are going to be more and more patients. So it will be a burden on us and it's going to affect the whole health care system, and I fear the quality of care will be poor.' With the workers' status in limbo, even some staunch conservatives are warning of negative ramifications of the administration's crackdown, and are calling instead for an increase in visas for immigrants to work in health care. "You can't just do across-the-board reductions and not have real challenges in areas where vital workers exist, especially in health care,' said Tom Price, a former GOP congressman who served as the health secretary during Trump's first term and now works as a consultant. 'If you just have across-the-board reductions, it will harm our ability to continue to provide care for folks at all different levels, whether it's acute or chronic care." 'Measles doesn't care about your immigration status' When measles erupted among children in Minneapolis' large Somali community in May 2024, the city contracted with groups that work with the area's Somali, Hmong, Latin American and Native American populations, set up free vaccine clinics in their neighborhoods run by trusted community groups, deployed contact tracers, and produced videos in multiple languages urging vaccinations. A few months later, after identifying 52 cases and hospitalizing 12 people, they had it under control. But local officials fear that now, amid the biggest measles outbreak the U.S. has seen in decades, including a few cases in Minnesota, they may not be as successful. Health care providers in Minneapolis and around the country are reporting that since Trump took office and changed federal policy to allow immigration enforcement agents to detain people in hospitals and clinics, immigrants with and without documents are avoiding health services, including testing and treatment for infectious diseases and vaccinations. 'When people feel threatened, there's a chilling effect,' said Michelle Rivero, the director of the city's Office of Immigration and Refugee Affairs, which was founded during the first Trump administration. 'There is a greater sense of fear and anxiety with regard to accessing health care.' That chilling effect will be compounded, local officials warn, by the Trump administration's cuts to public health funding, which have forced the Minneapolis Public Health Department to shut down several vaccine clinics, lay off 170 staff members and end contracts with three community health organizations that were crucial in halting the 2024 measles outbreak: MHealth Fairview, Odam Medical Clinic, and Neighborhood HealthSource. The administration argued the funding should be cut because Congress had appropriated it to combat Covid-19 and the pandemic is over — though health departments around the country had been using the money to shore up defenses against other infectious diseases. Though a judge blocked the cuts from taking effect, that ruling could be overturned on appeal. At a time when immigrant groups' already high distrust of government is even higher due to fears of immigration enforcement, said Deputy Health Commissioner Heidi Ritchie, public health departments won't be successful if they can't contract with non-governmental community groups to do outreach and provide services. 'With the loss of those contracts, we can't be confident that we're able to serve a population when there's another measles outbreak,' she said. 'Measles doesn't care about your immigration status or your ethnicity. But when we are providing these clinics, they're free, and they are in community spaces that people already have trust with.' Under pressure from the Trump administration, several states including Minnesota and California are also rolling back programs that provide health insurance to undocumented immigrants, putting testing and treatment for infectious diseases further out of reach. In addition to measles, public health leaders are concerned about the impact of Trump's immigration policies on efforts to combat tuberculosis — a bacterial infection the U.S. nearly eradicated decades ago that is now resurging from Kansas City to Los Angeles. 'People are, all of a sudden, a little bit leery of presenting themselves in congregate settings where they might be targets for enforcement,' said Lori Tremmel Freeman, CEO of the National Association of County and City Health Officials. 'It really is emanating out of a greater fear of those places being actively monitored by ICE.' The Trump administration and advocacy groups that want to restrict immigration say higher levels of tuberculosis in immigrant communities justifies turning people away at the border. But Freeman and other experts stress that while the infections are more prevalent in those communities, it has nothing to do with their country of origin and everything to do with crowded living conditions and a lack of access to vaccines, which is why TB outbreaks are also common in U.S. homeless shelters and prisons. By implementing policies that deter immigrants from seeking health services, she argued, the Trump administration could make the situation worse. 'We are worried, from a public health standpoint, that people will tie tuberculosis outbreaks to immigrant communities unfairly and traumatize those groups even more,' Freeman said. 'We were fearful that it might be used by the administration to say, 'This is a disease they bring in. We've got to get them out of the country.'' To reach those fearful of coming in for services, some public health departments are ramping up telehealth services, while others are creating mobile units so that immigrants don't have to leave their neighborhoods. Still others are posting know-your-rights information in multiple languages for their patients, and coaching providers on what to do in the event of a raid. 'Our union has trained us on what to do if ICE comes into our hospitals,' said the California Nurses Association's Reding. 'We've always been patient advocates but right now the need for that is even stronger.' Yet both research and anecdotal reports suggest that the health care repercussions of restrictive immigration policies can extend beyond their target populations and linger long after the policies themselves are lifted. A 2021 study found that the 'public charge' rule in the first Trump administration — which penalized legal immigrants who used government safety net programs — led many low-income immigrants to avoid using health services, including more than a quarter of legal permanent residents, who were not subject to the rule. The chilling effect began years before the policy took effect, fueled by rhetoric from federal government officials, researchers found. Another study, published in 2022, found that legal immigrants without green cards were still avoiding care more than a year after President Joe Biden got rid of the rule. 'We've created fear and distrust of the health care system in the immigrant community even without enforcement,' said Arturo Vargas Bustamante, a professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. 'This has big implications, including for mixed status households and U.S. citizen children, and it could be both costly and fatal.'
CBC
4 days ago
- Health
- CBC
Coming home: Elders return to Nunavut for care after years of living in the south
Three years ago, Eric Anoee Jr., along with his family, made the difficult decision to move his brother Bernard from Arviat, Nunavut to Embassy West, a seniors' living facility in Ottawa. Bernard had just been diagnosed with dementia and there was no 24-hour care available to him in Nunavut. As Anoee Jr. describes it, they had no choice. But after three years, Bernard is coming home. He's one of a handful of Nunavut elders who are being transferred back to the territory to live in the new 24-hour elder care facility in Rankin Inlet which opened this month. Last week, Anoee Jr. received a call that Bernard would be one of the elders sent to live in the new home. "It's been a long time waiting," Anoee Jr. said. "Obviously Ottawa is very far away from home and we can't see him ... so we were very excited about Bernard coming home." Although Rankin Inlet is still a short flight away, Anoee Jr. said there's a world of difference between Ottawa and Nunavut. "When I visit the Embassy West, I can kind of feel that the Inuit residents feel out of place," he said. "They know that they're far away from home. Coming back to Nunavut is a going to be a really good thing for patients." Elders coming back In a statement in the Legislative Assembly this week, Health Minister John Main said the first few elders have already arrived at the new care home in Rankin Inlet, which has 24 beds. He said three or four elders will arrive every week for the next few weeks. "A state-of-the art facility, the first of its kind in Nunavut, awaits them with a culturally enriching, safe, and home-like environment," Main said. He also said the health department has placed a "strong focus" on employing Inuit at the home. "We know that the elders who will live there want to hear Inuktitut being spoken. They want Inuit values and culture reflected in the activities, and in the food they are served," Main said. Anoee Jr. remembers when he and his other brother were tasked with moving Bernard out of Arviat. "It was a pretty long, emotional journey having to move him to southern Canada," he said. Despite not having full-time care available in Arviat, Anoee Jr. said the whole community helped to support Bernard. "I found out that the support system is there even though it's not a whole lot. The health department really helped us there, and the family and community. If he was wandering away from town our friend would tell us to pick him up." It was also the first time Anoee Jr. had experienced caring for someone with dementia. "It's very hard to have a loved one suffering from dementia," he said.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Jehlen giving voice to emerging elder affairs issues
BOSTON (SHNS) – Despite funding increases, the top senator on elder issues is raising a red flag about service cuts to programs that help keep seniors out of nursing homes. With demand for services outpacing budget increases, senators 'should be open and transparent about the fact that services to individuals are being cut to try to control the budget,' Sen. Pat Jehlen of Somerville, who co-chairs the Joint Committee on Elder Affairs, said during annual budget debate. 'This is an austerity budget. It's more money. But for many people, the services are less,' said Jehlen, who is 81 and described a friend who was able to continue working because her husband was able to access services. Jehlen filed three budget amendments to try to curb those service cuts, each of which she promoted from the Senate floor. However, she withdrew her proposals without pushing for votes. Two amendments sought to address enrollment caps and other directives from the Healey administration to tighten eligibility and rein in costs for the Enhanced Community Options Program (ECOP), which serves frail individuals who clinically qualify for nursing homes but are able to receive intensive at-home care. The other would have stopped a 6% rate cut coming down from the Healey administration to all Adult Day Health programs, which Jehlen says will result in the highest-quality, local nonprofit programs shuttering their doors. Earlier this year, the Healey administration began imposing a cap on the number of available ECOP slots, providers told the News Service, in an effort to 'manage intake.' ECOP functions as a 'middle-income' home care program for older adults who do not qualify for MassHealth but struggle to afford private care on their own. Home care workers help participants with a wide range of services, including medication assistance, help showering and cleaning, Alzheimer's and dementia care, and cooking or home delivered meals. Without the care, providers say, these individuals are reliant on help from family members or neighbors, or need to be placed in more expensive nursing homes. The new enrollment caps from the Executive Office of Aging & Independence (AGE), which outline monthly reductions for providers to reach through the end of the fiscal year, have spawned waitlists for ECOP. Older adults can still receive basic home care, but their loved ones may need to play a bigger caregiving role to bridge service gaps, said Betsey Crimmins, executive director of Mass Aging Access, which represents the state's 27 Aging Service Access Points and Area Agencies on Aging. 'It doesn't mean people don't get nothing – it means they don't get the higher level of services while they're waiting,' Crimmins told the News Service last week. 'So I think the idea is: How do you do more with less? How do you create efficiencies, and how do you make sure that people don't completely just fall through the cracks?' She added, 'These are really hard decisions, telling people that they can't get services that they need, and that if they had called in January, they would have.' Crimmins said she is querying her members to find out how many adults on the ECOP waiting list had to be admitted to nursing homes. Crimmins said she is also working with AGE to navigate potential exemptions to the new guidelines, including how to handle an older adult who needs ECOP-level care sooner than a slot is available. 'People will wait longer and receive less assistance than they would have this year. That's not likely to be remedied by any future supp budget. It will just be the new normal,' Jehlen said during Tuesday's debate. The administration has said individuals already receiving services will not get kicked off. 'Now that enrollment is capped, [those on the waitlist] may have to wait with fewer services than they need until someone else is no longer alive or goes into a nursing home,' Jehlen said. The administration in February also tightened eligibility for the program by creating a higher spending threshold on services for older adults to qualify for ECOP. One of Jehlen's amendments (#466) would have injected an additional $15 million into the elder home care services line item, which is $278.7 million in the Senate Ways and Means Committee budget. The other ($464) would have given a $4.5 million boost to the $110.7 million line item for elder home care case management. Jehlen said the state 'almost always' has to add funds through supplemental budgets for the ECOP program. The line item for elder home care services is increasing by $41 million in the Senate budget, but Jehlen said demand continues to outpace what the state has budgeted. 'There will be continued increases because more people are living longer and living longer with disabilities,' she said. 'Because of those increases in utilization, we almost always have to add funds to both of those items in a supplemental budget.' Elder home care providers for months warned they would run out money this spring without a supplemental funding infusion to fill big budget gaps amid soaring demand for services. Healey's supplemental budget in April called for steering $60 million to elder home care services, an amount the House embraced in its spending package Wednesday. Even without that money, the state has managed to continue paying providers through other funding streams, Crimmins said. The Healey administration also moved recently to cut rates for adult day health programs, which offer community-based daytime care for older adults and adults with cognitive, medical or behavioral health impairments. There are 140 such programs in the state. EOHHS proposed decreasing the per day and partial per day rates to providers for the basic level of care for adult day health services from $106.32 to $99.49 and $53.16 to $49.75, respectively. The cuts will save the state $5.59 million. The new regulations were rolled out in March, received a hearing in April, and will be effective July 1. 'The administration is not saying 'We're going to force closure of small nonprofits.' And we're not voting to close those small nonprofit places. But the administration cut will do that,' Jehlen said. Despite her strong words, Jehlen withdrew her amendment that would have required MassHealth to maintain and pay base rates to providers of adult day health services at their current rates. Asked about Jehlen's amendments and cutting services even as spending increases, Senate President Karen Spilka said it is a difficult budget year and can 'bring heartbreak… because we can't satisfy every need.' 'It's hard when you're taking a deep dive into the budget and every item, for children, for families, for veterans, for babies, for supporting families — there's so many needs out there,' Spilka said. 'We try to support them as much as we can, and we feel like we're spending, but there's still so many vulnerable populations out there in need. And we can't address it. We have one pot of money. We can't print money. That's all we can do.' Since the beginning of the pandemic, 35 adult day health programs have closed. 'In 2023, just two years ago, the [Center for Health Information and Analysis] found that salaries in adult day health were $3 to $4 less than in similar jobs, and that a third of them were running deficits. Twenty-four were at serious risk of closure. So the administration raised those rates to prevent closures. Now the administration is planning to cut those rates,' Jehlen said. MassHealth said they applied a 33% rate increase to all adult day health services in fiscal 2024. 'MassHealth remains committed to ensuring our members have access to a wide range of long-term services and supports (LTSS) programs. In the aftermath of COVID, the Commonwealth made significant investments in Adult Day Health programs to promote stability,' MassHealth spokesperson Stacey Nee said. 'As a result of these investment, the programs are in a much more stable financial position. Given the current budget climate, MassHealth is recommending reasonable adjustments to Adult Day Health rates.' A cost report analysis from fiscal 2023 shows median profitability of adult day health programs was 7.86%, and the weighted average profitability was 14.36%, MassHealth said. Jehlen said that about two-thirds of the centers are for-profit ventures, and are 'running significant profits.' Those are not the programs she's concerned about, she said. 'They often spend less on care, more on management fees, more on real estate,' she said. 'They will survive despite the rate cut.' The Somerville Democrat said she's concerned about the one-third of adult day health centers that are small- and medium-sized run by local nonprofits and family businesses, which she said often provide more direct care. 'According to CHIA, they are running significant deficits, and have for years. They are the ones that are likely to close. This will be a real loss in quality overall, and it will be a real loss for the people who have received more local, more personal care,' she said. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. 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Associated Press
23-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
New Book 'Everything You Need to Know about Me' Is the Perfect Gift for Older Americans
Princella Seymour's compassionate step-by-step guide helps loved ones provide vital information to family in the event they are unable to speak for themselves. 'Most people don't prepare for the aging process. They assume it will be gradual, but the reality is that most senior care decisions are made in moments of crisis.'— Princella Seymour, Author & CEO of Complete Elder Care Solutions FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, UNITED STATES, May 23, 2025 / / -- For over 30 years, elder care expert Princella Seymour has supported families through the emotional and logistical challenges of aging. Her new book, Everything You Need to Know About Me, is born from decades of experience witnessing the heartache and confusion families face when trying to honor their loved ones' wishes without having the necessary information. Published in time for Older Americans Month and Father's Day, this simple, yet powerful step-by-step guide allows older adults to document important information - medical details, emergency contacts, financial facts, and final wishes - all in one place. The book can be safely stored in a home or safety deposit box and easily updated over time, giving families peace of mind when the unexpected happens. 'I have experienced firsthand watching the heartbreak of a caregiver not having all of the person's wishes and pieces in order. Most people don't prepare for the aging process. They assume it will be gradual or that there will be plenty of time to figure it out, but the reality is that most senior care decisions are made in moments of crisis,' says Seymour, CEO of Complete Elder Care Solutions, 'there is so much confusion, worry, and then often regret about their elder's wishes where handled correctly. This book makes it easy to have the tough conversations and put answers in one safe place.' Seymour, a trusted national consultant and speaker on elders and aging, started her consulting firm Elder Care Solutions to address the issue she was seeing in the caregiving community - to fill the gap when elder parents can no longer live alone, families are scrambling, and they need help navigating this next phase of life. This preparation is at the heart of her mission - to turn confusion into clarity with love and dignity. Everything You Need to Know About Me can be purchased on Amazon starting May 23rd. ### About Princella Seymour Princella Seymour is a nationally recognized expert on elder care solutions and an advocate for revolutionizing elder care. For over thirty years, she has guided thousands of families through the emotional journey of aging with compassion and clarity. Seymour has served as Vice President of the Florida Healthcare Social Workers Association (Broward Chapter). She is currently the CEO of Complete Elder Care Solutions, assisting thousands of families in navigating aging with love and dignity. To find out more, visit Leigh-Anne Anderson Anderson-PR +1 310-990-5752 email us here Visit us on social media: LinkedIn Instagram Facebook Other Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content 'as is' without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.
