Finding transportation assistance for seniors with disabilities

Who can you call when a wheelchair bound senior needs a ride to their medical appointment and you as the caregiver are no longer able to lift them in and out of the car?  Or the senior can't drive themselves to any place (like a senior center to get meals, or the grocery store, hair salon and so on) and transportation assistance is needed? It's fairly easy to a call taxi when the person isn't wheelchair bound and is fairly ambulatory. But when the senior needs more assistance, where do you … [Read more...]

What’s Your One Thing?

It's the beginning of the year and I hope you made some sort of New Year’s Resolution. For many of us, we looked back at the previous year and are angry with ourselves for not doing something right. I can’t tell you how many times this has something to do with managing ours, or a family member’s, personal finances. We intended to do one or some of the following: Setup a workable filing system for all the paper Setup a place to pay bills where everything is handy so that the boring job … [Read more...]

Improve the Business of Life – starting with your finances

Jill and I are excited to launch our new company, At Home FinanceCare LLC. The name fits our focus on the personal financial side of life. While we’ve been helping small businesses for over 15 years with their accounting and operation needs, many of our clients have asked us to also take over managing their daily finances and other personal affairs. We’ve found that people asked for help for several reasons: They are busy raising families and/or running a business and have no time to keep … [Read more...]