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Working caregivers get relief
Fran Sosa needed help. After her mom died, she started caring for an older relative she knows as "Uncle Freddy."
Sosa, 49, couldn't stay home from her job as a physical therapy tech or pay someone to care for her 78-year-old cousin, Alfred Vila, who has diabetes and brain damage from a childhood injury. She ended up finding adult day care for Uncle Freddy, but only by chance.
"If I didn't have that, I'd be forced to stop working," said Sosa, who lives in Seminole.
She's not alone. More baby boomers are trying to work and care for their aging parents, leading to problems at home and in the workplace.
Now Neighborly Care Network, the innovative social service agency that invented Meals on Wheels nearly four decades ago, is launching a program to help both desperate caregivers and their bosses.
Home Business Cents to Target Moms and Dads
Home Business Cents promotion will target moms and dads who want extra part-time money making business for their spouse and family.
Montevallo, AL, USA, December 27, 2006 (XTVWorld.Com) -- The formula for a Work-at-Home business is having a product everyone wants and working hard to get the word out that you can supply this product to them. The birth of the internet has led to the profitable home based business, with many opportunities, which has led to an exponential growth in mom and dad working from home.
Daily evidence by the recent company layoffs and shutting down of plants announced on news and press everyday, HomeBusinessCents.com aims to jump in the forefront of the home-based business Industry with a powerful online promotional campaign of its stable medical discount program, enabling other would be entrepreneurs to start and run legitimate work from home based business.
Monterey Model Appearing On 'Today'
Ramsey has become a success in a field usually dominated by much younger women. She said she is surprised by her good fortune, and gives thanks to God each morning.
She said she and her husband of 47 years, Wally Ramsey, never saw it coming. She was a stay-at-home mom until her 50s, when she got a job with the Pebble Beach Co. The couple has raised six children.
Ramsey did not start modeling until she was 63, focusing mostly on local work. She was featured in the Monterey Herald, with the story getting picked up across the country.
More modeling work followed and now the jobs just keep on coming.
Her husband calls her Ponce de Leon, adding that she seems to have discovered a fountain of youth.
She said she never imagined she would become a poster child for aging gracefully.
Holiday gratitude inspires nurses
I read the article by Rich Fahey about his daughter being born at Christmas time ("For Christmas babies, nurses are Santa's elves," Globe South, Dec. 24), and want to thank him for the kind words he wrote about nurses.
My husband gave it to me to read, and as I finished I told him that it is families like his, that are so appreciative of the work that nurses do, that make it much easier to work the holidays. It is tough to leave your own family at home, but knowing how grateful our patients' families are makes it all worthwhile.
I feel for his daughter. I, too, lost my mother in 1995, and holidays are never quite the same. As I write this e-mail from a nurse's station at Mass. General, my 3-month-old son, who was also born at South Shore Hospital, sleeps peacefully, hopefully not knowing his mom is at work.
Fresh pizza dough for the truly kneady
SINCE I work through lunch most days, I jumped when Oakland entrepreur Kim Cole offered to come make a pizza for lunch a few weeks ago. The idea of talking to someone in person instead of over the phone or via e-mail is a treat in itself. But add a slice of pizza and it's an over-the-top offer.
Cole arrived shortly before noon, pizza ingredients in hand, and a story to tell. Cole is a young, energetic, super-organized, pizza-loving mom who believes that every family deserves to eat pizza made the right way; at home with fresh, organic dough and fresh ingredients.
The idea to make and sell pizza dough, she says, came while she was on maternity leave and trying to make a perfect pizza.
"For some reason I became obsessed with making perfect pizza dough," she says.
