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Client Stories serve as testimony that SeniorBridge’s integrated, multidisciplinary team approach in managing chronic, complex conditions results in better overall emotional and physical health and improved quality of life. These actual stories highlight the challenges we face and the solutions that we are able to provide for our clients.
Reversing a slippery slope for a woman with Parkinson’s disease, glaucoma, cancer, early dementia, and failing health.
Mrs. Abrams, an 83-year-old woman, has been a client since March 2006. She has Parkinson’s disease, glaucoma, cancer, early dementia, failing health, and is on four different types of medications, including twice-daily eyedrops. She requires partial assistance with bathing, dressing, medication management, and getting in and out of bed, and full assistance in using the bathroom, shopping, and preparing food. Before we met her, she was living alone with the help of several part-time aides. Her daughter, niece, and grandson live abroad, and were in conflict over how to help her.
Geographically distant but emotionally close father and daughter bridge the care gap.
Mr. Anderson is an 84-year-old widower residing in an assisted living facility. He has lymphedema, diabetes, coronary artery disease, acute respiratory failure, and prostate cancer, is obese, and wears hearing aids in both ears. He requires assistance with bathing and using the bathroom, cannot shop or prepare food, uses a walker, and has a history of falls due to lymphedema and obesity. He is on 13 different types of medications. Until he became a client of SeniorBridge in February 2006, his primary caregiver outside of the facility was his daughter Cynthia, a business owner who lives in another state.
Old soldiers never die and they don’t have to fade away either.
Mr. Samuels is a disabled WWII veteran, 87, with moderate dementia, living at home. He suffered a leg injury during the war and is now unable to walk, recently had a stroke that has left his speech slurry and can interfere with socialization, and is incontinent. He needs assistance with meal preparation and eating, bathing, and cleaning his home. He takes 7 different types of medications. His daughter and son live in the same city, and care is provided through a care manager and private aides. He has been a client of SeniorBridge since February 2006.
A creative woman’s long and winding road to recovery.
Mrs. Anthony is a 78-year-old wife who has dementia and suffered a stroke. When she became a SeniorBridge client in June 2006, she was fighting bronchial pneumonia and a viral infection. She was on 11 different types of medications and required tube feeding 3 times daily. She needed some help with bathing, eating, dressing, walking and toileting. She lives with her husband Charles, 72, and has a daughter Joan, but they are not involved in her daily care. She has home health aides 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
A gift for keeping passions alive at any age.
Mrs. Edelman is an 85-year-old widow living alone in a townhouse. She has been a SeniorBridge client for more than 3 years. She has early Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, and heart disease and takes 7 different types of medications. Mrs. Edelman requires assistance with eating, bathing, and dressing. Her primary caregivers are two nieces, one living nearby and the other in another state. Before SeniorBridge, she was living in an extremely cluttered and filthy house, and was herself disheveled looking and unable to care for herself.
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