Used by many healthcare professionals, virtual caregiving is an important and resourceful healthcare practice. Virtual caregiving overcomes the numerous time & place obstacles that impacts caregivers & seniors. Aging-in-place seniors & caregivers have few, if any, small group opportunities that benefits their socialization. Senior Social Club’s virtual caregiving is a resourceful opportunity for aging-in-place seniors and caregivers to meet within small groups and benefit from similar socialization that is found in continuing care facilities.
Closely connected to virtual platforms is social media. You would think social media is an integral part of caregiving, but maintaining privacy prevents many caregivers from using social media. Senior Social Clubs encourages using social media for cognitive functioning (like i.e., reminiscing). Each Senior Social Club is supported by StoryCares social media network which maintains privacy. The StoryCares network also provides listening and recording utilities that helps many care recipients who have trouble reading and/or typing.
Senior Social Club’s are lead by professionals with backgrounds in adult education, activities/memory care, social services and aging. Senior Social Club leaders plan & implement socialization programs. Senior Social Clubs engage small groups of seniors and caregivers in resourceful activities, subjects & information.
Each virtual Senior Social Club benefits from its own section on the StoryCares network. Notable outcomes are sharing information collectively by seniors and caregivers which is vital, but so often missed in family & home health caregiving relationships.
Equally valuable as virtual caregiving small group opportunities is social media. The reasons you haven’t seen more social media dedicated to seniors is because of privacy policies. Privacy is needed, but has been very detrimental to socialization in home/family health care for seniors and caregivers. StoryCares social media not only maintains privacy, it also provides listening and recording options.
Awesome! Love how vivid your description is- really makes me feel and
visualize the holiday and season. I saw a feature about a micro brewery brewing
pumpkin beer and how gigantic the pumpkin was. I think it was in Maine and the
pumpkin was declared the biggest in the State.
I have always loved autumn and pumpkins remind me of many autumns as a child and an adult. The colors, the crispness of the air, the fun of carving out pumpkins and, as a child and as a parent, going out trick r’ treating. I think of pumpkin pies, as well. Carving is fun and baked seeds (and pumpkin pie)
delicious!
Comment sample: I always looked forward to carving out pumpkins and adding candles to pumpkins. Lit candles inside pumpkins was always so cool! To this day, I love pumpkin pie. By season’s end or after Thanksgiving I am tired of pumpkin pie, but it’s delicious during from Sept – Nov. Thank you for the opportunity to post comments. I look forward to posting many more comments. I love that I can listen to comments.