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Cain Civil Process, LLC
By cain March 22, 2014
As of 6/2013 hours are Monday 8-3 and Tuesday- Friday from 8-noon ...read more
Home Instead Senior Care
By Kathys February 06, 2012
“Living several miles away from my father, it was certainly a relief to know that my sisters and I had a terrific caregiver from Home Instead Senior Care to watch over him. She interacted with him like she was a member of the family and always made him feel special when she was at his home. She was able to fill the gap when us girls were unable to be with dad. Our Home Instead caregiver enhanced my dad’s life and gave me (and my sisters) peace of mind that he was getting great care.” ...read more
Home Instead Senior Care
By Kathys February 06, 2012
“ Our Home Instead caregiver, Sandy, was great with our father. She did a terrific job of making him comfortable during the day and making sure he got his meals and took his insulin and medications. Sandy was that extra set of eyes and ears that we needed with our dad when we could not be there with him. She became a very important part of our family and our dad loved having her at his place during the week ...read more
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“Daughters in the Workplace” Experience Stigma Due to Caregiving
Greater Milwaukee Area Home Instead Senior Care Offers Resources to Support Employees Caring for Aging Parents MILWAUKEE, Wis. – June 26, 2017 –A new survey[i]by Home Instead, Inc., franchisor of the Home Instead Senior Care network, found that half of working female caregivers feel they have to choose between being a good employee and being a good daughter. In addition, a quarter (25%) of working daughters report they find a workplace stigma in being a caregiver, and 23 percent have found that their supervisor is unsympathetic. In an effort to start a conversation about how working family caregivers can be better supported in the workplace, the Home Instead Senior Care network has launched a new public education program,Daughters in the Workplace. The new program offers free resources to help working family caregivers feel empowered to talk to their employers about their needs, while also identifying caregiving support that may be available. The program also provides information to help employers understand what their employees want and need as caregivers, includingCaregiver Friendly Business Practices. Research shows that women are twice as likely as men to spend more than 30 hours a week on caregiving. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), working female caregivers average nearly double the amount of time caring for aging loved ones, compared to their male counterparts (9.1 hours a week vs 5.7 hours). What’s more, many women are a part of the sandwich generation, caring for an aging parent or relative while also caring for their own children. According to Home Instead’s survey, 91percent of female caregivers report having had to take action to accommodate being an employee and a caregiver. The most common actions include taking paid time off, switching from full time to part time, avoiding certain responsibilities and turning down promotions. All of the hours spent caregiving – combined with the sacrifices made in the workplace – can leave daughters in the workplace with undue strain and stress in their lives. While women make up two-thirds of family caregivers, the solutions to addressing caregiving challenges in the workplace are gender-neutral. Drew Holzapfel, ReACT (Respect a Caregiver’s Time) convener, explains that a significant issue facing all working family caregivers is often that they don’t realize the benefits they may be eligible to receive from their employers. “Flexible time can have a stigma, and working caregivers might not know they can use FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) for senior care, or they might not know how to access their EAP (Employee Assistance Program),” said Holzapfel. To help educate working family caregivers on these resources, DaughtersintheWorkplace.com includes an interactive quiz in which caregivers can equip themselves with the knowledge of protected family leave rights that may be available to them. Additionally, the website includes conversation starters and health tips for caregiving employees, as well as communication tips for employers and signs caregiving employees need support. Family caregivers and employers can view program resources and tips atwww.DaughtersintheWorkplace.com. Or, contact your local Home Instead Senior Care office for additional resources and to learn how their professional CAREGiversmay be able to assist. Find an office near you by visitingwww.homeinstead.com/Wisconsin/. ...read more
By Home Instead Senior Care July 12, 2017
Memory and Recall: 10 Amazing Facts You Should Know
Human memory and recall works nothing like a computer, but that’s what makes it all the more fascinating to understand and experience.[if !supportLineBreakNewLine][endif]It’s often said that a person is the sum of their memories. Your memory and recall is what makes you who you are.Despite this, memory and recall is generally poorly understood, which is why many people say they have ‘bad memories’. That’s partly because the analogies we have to hand—like that of computer memory—are not helpful. Human memory and recall isvastly more complicated and quirky than the memory residing in our laptops, tablets or phones.Here is my 10-point guide to the psychology of memory and recall 1. Memory does not decayEveryone has experienced the frustration of not being able to recall a fact from memory. So it seems obvious that memories decay, like fruit going off. But the research tends not to support this view. Instead many researchers think that in fact memory has a limitless capacity. Everything is stored in there but, without rehearsal, memories become harder to access. This means it’s not the memory that’s ‘going off’ it’s the ability to retrieve it.2. Forgetting helps you learnThe idea that forgetting helps you learn seems counter-intuitive, but think of it this way: imagine if you created a brain that could remember and recall everything. When this amazing brain was trying to remember where it parked the car, it would immediately bring to mind all the car parks it had ever seen, then it would have to sort through the lot.Obviously the only one that’s of interest is the most recent. And this is generally true of most of our memories. Recent events are usually much more important than ones that happened a long time ago.That’s why forgetting helps you learn: as less relevant information becomes inaccessible, we are naturally left with the information that is most important to our daily survival.3. ‘Lost’ memories can live againThere’s another side to the fact that memories do not decay. That’s the idea that although memories may become less accessible, they can be revived.Even things that you have long been unable to recall are still there, waiting to be woken. Experiments have shown that even information that has long become inaccessible can still be revived. Indeed it is then re-learned more quickly than new information.This is like the fact that you never forget how to ride a bike, but it doesn’t just apply to motor skills, it also applies to memory and recall.4. Recalling memories alters themalthough it’s a fundamental of memory and recall, the idea that recall alters memories seems intuitively wrong. How can recalling a memory change it? Well, just by recalling a memory, it becomes stronger in comparison to other memories. Let’s run this through an example. Say you think back to one particular birthday from childhood and you recall getting a Lego spaceship. Each time you recall that fact, the other things you got for your birthday that day become weaker in comparison. The process of recall, then, is actually actively constructing the past, or at least the parts of your past that you can remember. 5. Memory is unstableThe fact that the simple act of recall changes memory means that it is relatively unstable. But people tend to think that memory is relatively stable: we forget that we forgot and so we think we won’t forget in the future what we now know.What this means is that students, in particular, vastly underestimate how much effort will be required to commit material to memory. And they’re not the only ones. This leads to…6. The foresight biasEveryone must have experienced this. You have an idea that is so great you think it’s impossible you’ll ever forget it. So you don’t bother writing it down. Within ten minutes you’ve forgotten it and it never comes back.7. When recall is easy, learning is lowWe feel clever when we recall something instantly and stupid when it takes ages. But in terms of learning, we should feel the exact reverse. When something comes to mind quickly, i.e. we do no work to recall it, no learning occurs. When we have to work hard to bring it to consciousness, something cool happens: we learn.When people’s memories are tested, the more work they have done to construct, or re-construct, the target memory, the stronger the memory eventually becomes. This is why proper learning techniques always involve testing, because just staring at the information isn’t good enough: learning needs effortful recall.8. Learning depends heavily on contextHave you ever noticed that when you learn something in one context, like the classroom, it becomes difficult to recall when that context changes?This is because learning depends heavily on how and where you do it: it depends on who is there, what is around you and how you learn.It turns out that in the long-term people learn information best when they are exposed to it in different ways or different contexts. When learning is highly context-dependent, it doesn’t transfer well or stick as well over the years.9. Memory, reloadedIf you want to learn to play tennis, is it better to spend one week learning to serve, the next week the forehand, the week after the backhand, and so on? Or should you mix it all up with serves, forehands and backhands every day?It turns out that for long-term retention, memories are more easily recalled if learning is mixed up. This is just as true for both motor learning, like tennis, as it is for declarative memory, like what’s the capital of Venezuela (to save you googling: it’s Caracas)One explanation for why this works is called the ‘reloading hypothesis’. Each time we switch tasks we have to ‘reload’ the memory. This process of reloading strengthens the learning.10. Learning is under your controlThe practical upshot of these facts about memory is that we often underestimate how much control we have over our own memory and recall.For example, people tend to think that some things are, by their nature, harder to learn, and so they give up. However, techniques like using different contexts, switching between tasks and strenuous reconstruction of memories can all help boost retention.People also tend to think that the past is fixed and gone; it can’t be changed. But how we recall the past and think about it can be changed. Recalling memories in different ways can help us re-interpret the past and set us off on a different path in the future. For example, studies have shown that people can crowd out painful negative memories by focusing on more positive ones [if !supportLineBreakNewLine][endif] ...read more
By Home Instead Senior Care May 04, 2017
CAREGiver of the month for February
There are times when a family cannot adequately care for a mother or father, an aunt or an uncle, a grandfather or grandmother, a sibling or spouse, and must turn over the task to those who are more able, either in an institutional or a home setting. These are not easy decisions for anyone, but there is much relief when a good caregiving solution is found. It is a happy family who finds compassionate and wise care for their relative provided by doctors and physicians, nurses, attendants, nurses aides, therapists, and support staff. These caregivers make many sacrifices in performing their jobs, which are often physically and emotionally difficult. We would like to honor our CAREGiver of the month...Heather. It takes very special people to be in the health care field. Every once in a while, in life I find a natural. Someone so suited to their career. Their expertise is humbling You're so good at compassionate caregiving. I stand in awe and salute you for having the touch that heals in mind and body and spirit Heather fits the description above and we are lucky to have her as a caregiver at Home Instead Senior Care. ...read more
By Home Instead Senior Care February 03, 2017