This past February, a month before Minnesota’s stay-at-home order, I took my 88-year-old mother for her annual Medicare wellness visit. She aced the usual battery of tests (blood pressure, oxygen levels, reflexes, strength, balance, BMI) ...
Improving Your Personal Caregiving Skills
Being a family caregiver for a senior loved one is one of the most challenging and rewarding things you can do. However, being an effective caregiver draws on many different skills, some of which might ...
Changes to Make in Your Loved One’s Life After a Heart Attack
Heart attacks don’t just impact the day-to-day life of the individual who has one; the traumatic event also impacts the lives of their relatives and caregivers. If you are the one taking care of someone ...
Go Purple for Alzheimer’s Day
Go Purple today, and make a difference in the support and resources for people living with Alzheimer’s. Today is Alzheimer’s Action Day and the Alzheimer’s Association Minnesota-North Dakota has a few easy ways that you ...
Sparking the World Starts with You
It starts with you Lifesprk wants to spark the world and it starts with your story. Richard Leider, founder of Inventure, The Purpose Company and chairman of Lifesprk’s advisory board, shares that when you communicate ...
Wisdom in Client’s Answer to the Holiday Magic Conversation
Mary Claire O’Brien, a nurse and Lifesprk Life Care Manager, asked two of her most long-standing and beloved clients what they wish for as they age. <break> They both said– ‘we have everything we want.’ ...
Well-being: The Benefits of Connecting
You may have seen an earlier blog by Lifesprk introducing our new Lifesprk Connect service as part of a full continuum of guidance. But what are the benefits of connecting? That is the biggest question, ...
Give to the Max: Give On!
Four years ago, the face of charitable giving was dramatically changed for the better with the launch of the Give to the Max Day, and it all started in Minnesota. GiveMN was designed and launched ...
Support group often overlooked resource for caregivers
You’ve seen them advertised in your local newspaper or on fliers in the supermarket: caregiver support group for those dealing with memory loss, meets every Tuesday. You read it but keep going, thinking how could ...
