Personal Care Attendant Lead Nurse Laura Dunn
Laura Dunn is a Personal Care Attendant (PCA) lead nurse at LifePath. She has worked at LifePath for three and a half years. Her responsibilities include completing in-home assessments and the MassHealth Application for PCA Services. She also assists with training new nurses. According to Laura, “A typical day is a mix of phone calls/emails,
A New Year, a Stronger You!
January is noted as the International Quality of Life Awareness Month: A time to take stock in ourselves, evaluate where we are, and establish a plan of action on how to improve our lives from all sides, both physically and emotionally, while practicing positive self-care and enhancing our overall state of well-being in the process.
New Dementia Journey Group for Those Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners
Beginning February 3, 2025, LifePath will be offering a new, free of charge, 8-week group for people in the early stage of their dementia journey with their care partners. The group will be offered Mondays, 2/3/25–3/24/25, from 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
During the group sessions, people living with dementia and their care partners will participate in
Keeping Your Brain Healthy
Lots of our Healthy Living participants are worried about memory and brain health. Our memory classes get filled immediately with older adults worried about forgetting names, faces, where they put things, etc. There is good news, however, because not only do our memory classes help, but many medical professionals describe how lifestyle changes can have
Simple Acts of Kindness Build Strength in Our Community—Why Your Gift Matters!
As 2024 floats away and we welcome 2025, someone recently asked me, “What makes LifePath so special?” In quickly collecting my thoughts, it became abundantly clear to me in that moment that there would not be enough time during our short conversation to adequately describe all that we do, so I offered this instead:
When the Unthinkable Happens: Emergency Preparedness for Older Adults & Caregivers
My experience as the adult child of older parents in a natural disaster began with a text from a friend: “Are your parents OK?” I scanned the news and was horrified. There were countless images of their picturesque western North Carolina small town and others like it, seemingly wiped away by walls of rushing brown
Touch Matters
Good touch is something that benefits us all. But while it is hugely important to human growth and development, older adults are predominantly touch starved. This is not okay, because it leaves older adults more vulnerable and less healthy than they need to be.
It is understandable. Many older adults live alone, or they live with
Nutrition Notes: Nuts for Your Health
Fall and winter are the seasons for nuts! As squirrels stash away nuts to eat for the winter, and black bears gorge on them to build fat stores in preparation for hibernation, we should also consider nuts as a healthful part of our diet.
Most nuts are the seeds of fruit from trees, with the exception
A Season Full of Expectations and How Gratitude Can Help
This will be reaching you near the holiday season. While a time of joy, connection, and celebration for many, the holidays are not universally happy, and not even universally celebrated. This is a season full of expectations, some realistic, some less so. Expectations to feel a certain way, or to engage with certain people. Expectations
LifePath’s Community Engagement Center Open House Provides Information and Support
Information and support, along with free chair massages, were offered at the Community Engagement Center (CEC) Open House, which took place on Wednesday, November 13, at LifePath. Speakers included Meghan Lemay, from the Alzheimer’s Association, who presented on both “Communication Techniques for People with Dementia” and “Responding to Dementia-Related Behaviors,” and Sue Tracy, from All
The Power Within Us to Make a Positive Difference
During the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, I often take time to reflect on the year gone by and how my own choices have contributed to making a positive difference in the world around me. It could be decisions concerning my own family circle, the community in which I live and work in, or even within my
In Memoriam: Volunteer Marv Kelley
We are saddened to announce the passing of longtime LifePath volunteer, Marvin Kelley. Marv was an integral part of our innovative Rides for Health program and a longtime member and current president of the Citizens Advisory Board. We share our deepest condolences with Marv’s family and friends. He will be dearly missed.