LONGEVITECH TLV 2023
eLivelihood, CEO, Jill Lindgren will be presenting at this conference.
LONGEVITYTECH TLV 2023
How does technology help primary caregivers?
Technology is a crucial tool for primary caregivers looking to streamline their work to support their older relatives.
Technology enables primary caregivers of elderly relatives to stay connected with their loved ones from afar.
It provides access to helpful resources and services and assists in planning long-term care.
It is crucial in managing logistics and keeping track of important documents.
It helps caregivers better manage their stress levels when involved in caregiving duties.
Stay connected with loved ones - even when they're far away
In today's world, technology can provide invaluable support for primary caregivers of senior relatives. With rapidly advancing technology, caregivers can now access various tools and resources to support their caregiving duties.
Caregivers can use technology for various things, including monitoring the health of elderly family members, providing medication reminders and alerts, connecting with family members, and keeping family memories safe.
By incorporating technology into the daily routines of primary caregivers of elderly relatives, a wide range of solutions are available that make it easier than ever before for people caring for ageing parents or grandparents at home to get assistance managing their responsibilities as well as stay connected with those they love most despite the physical distance separating them.
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
- Helen Keller
NoCopay Radio: April 2021
Jill is interviewed by Murphy Houston @NoCopay Radio
February 2021 Newsletter
February 2021 Newsletter
Celebrating National Caregivers Day – February 19th
National Caregivers Day
National Caregivers Day on the third Friday in February honors the health care professionals across the country providing long-term and hospice care.
Around the nation dedicated health care professionals serve those who require long-term or hospice care. They provide vital services, reassuring patients and families who care about them.
Caregivers deliver a variety of duties from personal care to medical services with compassion and professionalism. Their days may be long and demanding, but they provide support to those who need it most.
The celebration recognizes caregivers providing quality, compassionate care every day.
HOW TO OBSERVE #NationalCaregiversDay
Take time to thank a caregiver for their dedication and care of our loved ones. There are several ways to show your appreciation:
- Give them a card of thanks.
- Let them know with a kind word of encouragement.
- Tell their supervisor how much you appreciate the services.
- If you’re an employer of caregivers, host a breakfast or lunch event to show your thanks.
- Offer a small token of appreciation, such as a small but meaningful gift or home-baked goods.
- Share experiences through picture and video sharing on the eLivelihood app!
- Give them the day off!
Use #NationalCaregiversDay to post on social media.
“To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.”
- Tia Walker
December 2020 Newsletter
December 2020
Looking Forward to 2021!
New Features:
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Calendar: Notes and Time Tracking
Update makes this feature easier to access and use.
At a Glance
Positive 2020 Facts
2020 has been anything but fun, but we searched the web high-and-low to find a few positive facts:
- A 103-year-old grandma beat COVID-19 and celebrated with a Bud Light
- NASA researchers found that since February, pandemic restrictions have reduced global nitrogen dioxide concentrations by nearly 20%
- Drive-in movie theaters made a comeback
- Restaurants shared their secret recipes so we could make them at home
- Americans rushed to adopt and foster pets in need amid the pandemic
- Sure, we might have gained a little weight, but we rediscovered our love for old hobbies like baking and gardening
- We learned that homeschooling is hard and finally recognized teachers for the heroes that they are.
- Health care workers and essential workers. Also heroes.
- We came up with creative ways to celebrate big milestones like drive-by birthdays and Zoom parties
- We realized how much we love and need sports and its ability to unite us
- Musicians took to social media to give us personal concerts from home
- Weddings still happened over Zoom, and it was beautiful
Holiday Checklist
For many of us, the holidays include a lot of list-making: gift lists, grocery lists, who’s naughty and nice lists…and the lists go on and on. If you have an elderly parent or loved one in your life, there’s one other list you should think about including ….an ADL (Activities of Daily Living) Assessment Checklist. It’s important to consider how your loved one is getting along when performing daily tasks and skills on their own, and if your checklist brings up some red flags, it’s time to think about putting a support plan in place. Read more about what that list looks like and the signs that indicate your loved one may need some help.
Socially Distant for the Holidays?
Once the family has identified that a parent needs more help, the real work begins. Take time when you’re together for the holidays to talk about a real plan – a plan that includes family members and responsibilities for executing components of the plan. This may seem daunting, especially when family members are geographically dispersed. Here is where a coordination tool or platform becomes imperative. If you could have one place where roles and responsibilities are captured, important documents are stored in a safe and secure manner, calendars for important appointments and events are tracked and you could share special moments with that loved one through pictures and video, wouldn’t you want that tool on your Christmas list? eLivelihood is the Safe, Effective and Affordable Tool that helps your family Collectively Manage & Organize Care for Your Loved One. Read more about how to set up an asset list and 30-day goal care plan, then look at how eLivelihood can help facilitate the process.
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
- Lena Horne
Five Facts You Need To Know About Senior Isolation
Five Facts You Need To Know About Senior Isolation
Recent research has shown that isolated seniors do not live as long and are more likely to develop long-term diseases compared to their more social counterparts.
Recent research has shown that isolated seniors do not live as long and are more likely to develop long-term diseases compared to their more social counterparts.
- Stay in regular communication with them
- Consider meaningful ways to fill their time
- Isolated seniors are more vulnerable to financial scams and elder abuse, especially when family relationships are poor
- Despite common misconceptions, older adults who are married or who live with a partner are as likely to report isolated feelings as those who are not
- Couples often experience a change in their social lives as their children become busy with young families and their friends move or pass away
Strengthening social support can act as a key protector against maltreatment by the elderly. Practicing self-care, taking awareness for a few minutes, seeking support, and hiring respite home care can all help family caregivers get the rest and the social connection they need.
Seniors who are isolated tend to need longer-term care. With the toll that loneliness can play on physical and mental decline, older adults with fewer social contact require longer-term care. Professional care can be an important piece in the puzzle when it comes to reducing social isolation.
October 2020 Newsletter
October 2020
Aging Loved Ones, Child Care and Co-Parenting
Feature Spotlight: Media Gallery
Can’t figure which of the 30 soccer pictures of Suzie’s game to post on Facebook? Wonder if you’re “oversharing” to the majority of your friends but a few family members still want to see them all? Then you need a private way to share pictures and videos that matter to your family, but don’t necessarily need to overwhelm your social media pages. Group texts work in the moment, but as soon as the next 3 texts come in commenting on the picture, the memory is instantly lost to the history section of your messages.
eLivelihood gives you an easy way to share all those pictures of the new baby, or puppy or maybe the progress of your son’s not so scientific science project. Maybe it’s a DIY home improvement success or fail. Invite family and friends into your care group so they can enjoy the memories with you. Permission settings keep your private information private, while sharing great memories with extended family and friends.
Our platform keeps those pictures in your own private gallery to look at and scroll through whenever you want. You have your own personal photo album at your fingertips whenever you want to see it. Better yet, you can share it with anyone, even if they don’t have a social media profile, or a smart phone, like the grandparents. We thought of them too and give them an option to view the pictures on a tablet application you can load on any Apple or Android device.
Managing kids in school and aging parents isn't easy.
This is the time of year when parents feel the challenges of returning to school. Whether you have chosen in-classroom or virtual learning, balancing the education of your children while caring for an aging loved one at the same time is no easy task. Often referred to as the "Sandwich Generation," adults who juggle raising children and caring for older members of the family may find it stressful, overwhelming and laborious to cater for two sets of people with different needs.
If you are a parent who can relate, then you need eLivelihood! Managing the logistics of care, either for your parents or your kids isn’t easy, especially when you have to coordinate it with others.
eLivelihood helps you put all your information in one place and then share it with those people that need to know and can help. Calendars, tasks, important documents, homework, medications, pictures and videos, we got you covered. Create a care team for each person you’re caring for. Your kids, your parents, or another loved one. Invite your team, set their permissions so they only have access to what they need to see. Now everyone is informed, in-the-loop and can share important moments with picture and video sharing. This creates transparency, increases empathy and mitigates senior isolation.
You don't have to go at it alone.
Perhaps one of the most overlooked scenarios dramatically impacted by the pandemic, is divided families in dual households coordinating care for kids. Divorced parents with healthy relationships struggle with coordinating kids’ schedules, appointments, visitation and homework. Even when communication is good, managing logistics is always tough. Now, take a divided family where the parental relationship is a bit strained or even hostile, and the issues are compounded. As life is beginning to get back to normal, there is a solution to help maintain, and even improve how divided families co-parent and keep their kids feeling secure in the process. eLivelihood has that solution.
Co-parenting requires a commitment to communicate frequently and effectively in order to stay on top of what’s going on in their kids’ lives. Our web platform can help streamline the communication process. Using a shared platform to coordinate calendars, appointments, activities, sports practices and events, medical details and expense history and even photos and videos, eLivelihood keeps everything in one place and lets co-parents focus on what is most important ...maintaining a healthy and loving relationship with their kids. No more missing appointments, making that uncomfortable phone call about finances, missing photos from special events when you’re not there or searching in multiple files for medical information or legal documents.
The platform and tools offered by eLivelihood get at the heart of helping co-parents effectively manage their world of sharing kids. Simple, effective and affordable, the platform helps keep even divided families unified when it comes to coordinating care for their kids. The mobile app even lets you coordinate while on the go and communicate in real time.
"You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair."
- Douglas MacArthur
Companies lose out when employees’ caregiving burdens increase
Caregiving is more than paying for childcare or a nursing home for elderly parents. More people are taking these responsibilities on themselves and it's costing companies in productivity and skilled talent, according to a new study.
The definition of caregiving is being expanded as more Americans take care of loved ones, young and old.
American workers must make the most out of their situation when life happens while performing at an optimum level. That’s the corporate ideal, but on a personal level, the burden of caregiving can exceed a worker’s mental fortitude and earning potential. A new report from the Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work shows companies lose too when workers must decide when to care for a loved one or to keep on working. Click the image to read more.
NoCoPay Radio with Jill Lindgren
eLivelihood CEO Interview on NoCoPay Radio
Conversation about health and medical issues, with Murphy Houston
NoCoPay Radio, sponsored by Dr. COG (Denver’s Regional Council of Government’s Area Agency on Aging)
Jill Lindgren, CEO of eLivelihood appeared on NoCoPay Radio with Murphy Houston in September to talk about her innovative Care Management platform that helps families manage and organize the care for their aging parents. Jill discussed how the platform works, it’s features and how you can get a limited offer free lifetime subscription.
Caregiver Statistics: Work and Caregiving
Ever wonder the opportunity cost of not supporting employees that are caregivers?
Definitions:
A caregiver—sometimes called an informal caregiver—is an unpaid individual (for example, a spouse, partner, family member, friend, or neighbor) involved in assisting others with activities of daily living and/or medical tasks.
Formal caregivers are paid care providers providing care in one’s home or in a care setting (day care, residential facility, long-term care facility). For the purposes of the present fact sheet, displayed statistics generally refer to caregivers of adults.
The Sandwich Generation is defined as those adults with at least one living parent age 65 or older and who are either raising a child younger than 18 or providing financial support (either primary support or some support in the past year) to a grown child age 18 or older.
For employees in the "Sandwich Generation", caring for both children and parents, opportunity cost is significant.
Click the link above to find more information about:
• Juggling Work and Caregiving
• Impact on Working Caregivers
• Impact on Working Female Caregivers
• Annual Income
• Impact on Employers
• Best Practices for Removing Barriers to Equal Employment
