Welcome to E-Senior Services
www.e-seniorservices.net is the internet site
where seniors go to find real-world services!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT TODAY?
Go to the box at the TOP of this home page and use your mouse to click "About Us" to learn about E-Senior Services, to contact us, to learn about membership in the E-Senior Services network for your business and to see our Calendar and Newsletter.
To learn about specific topics for older adults, families and care givers and to find providers of related services or products, click on "Directory" at the TOP of this home page and then click on one of the general topics listed there. Each topic will provide you with educational material, a choice of more specific related topics and listings of service and product providers.
The E-Senior Services web site is designed to help older adults, their families, care givers and health care professionals learn more about the needs of aging adults and the many services and products available to them to make life easier, healthier, safer and a little more fun. Our site is free to you, the user. At this time, the service and product providers listed on our site directories are limited to those in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, metroplex and surrounding counties, although many of the listed companies are national and have locations outside the local area.
BREAKING NEWS
Cheryl Acres, RN, CCM, has joined E-Senior Services. Cheryl brings her experience and knowledge, both as a nurse and as a certified case manager, to the educational programs of E-Senior Services. She will be a great resource for our clients, for our company and for the community. Welcome, Cheryl!
Exciting New Programs at E-Senior Services
E-Senior Services will soon launch our new Caregiver Assistance Program (CAP). Through the CAP, we will partner with local employers to offer live educational programs on important elder care topics to their employees. Studies tell us that 20 to 25% of US workers are also caregivers for older adults, including parents, spouses and adult children, and many employees have aging-related concerns for themselves as well. Recognizing the needs of family caregivers, their extremely hectic schedules, and the challenges employees' caregiving responsibilities pose to their employers, E-Senior Services will take the education workers need directly to them. We will also offer on-line classes on a variety of aging and caregiving topics through our web site (including a live question/answer session following each class). Watch for more information early in 2009! If your business would like to offer on-site elder care education to help your employees to be more focused and productive at work, and less stressed at home by their caregiving responsibilities, please contact us for information at 972-809-0247 or via e-mail at general@e-seniorservices.net.
In conjunction with our Caregiver Assistance Program, E-Senior Services is building a directory of "Verified Service Providers" which will replace the current service provider listings on our web site. We will be able to give our clients more information than we do at present about local service providers and businesses who offer services or products to older adults and caregivers. We are looking for businesses who supply health care services, financial or legal services, home care, transportation, pet care and convenience services for aging adults and busy family caregivers. If you would like your business to be included in our directory, please contact us for application information by calling 972-809-0247 or via e-mail at general@e-seniorservices.net.
Our web site will undergo some exciting improvements as we launch our new CAP program early next year. We'll keep our popular events calendar and newsletter, and will continue to provide site visitors with educational information on elder care topics. We will add our CAP educational opportunities, our provider directory and more new options to help you learn about and find the help and resources you need. Please keep checking back to see us grow.
WHAT'S NEW at E-SENIOR SERVICES?
We're working to update our January calendar for you and should have that up and ready in a few days. In the interim, please see below.
Mayhill's 4th Friday CE series for December - cancelled due to the holidays.
Business over Lunch Dallas will become the Dallas Senior Health Circuit in 2009 and meetings will be hosted by Dallas-area senior residences. Please watch our calendar for 2009 meetings; check for Dallas Senior Health Circuit meetings.
Save the dates!!
March 4, 2009 - TAGS ethics conference, 1/2 day conference in Fort Worth. Ethics CE's. This year's cultural sensitivity topics (including the long-term care needs of gay and lesbian residents) will make this conference appropriate for social workers, nurses and administrators. Contact TAGS (Tarrant Area Gereontological Society) directly or watch our site for more details shortly.
March 7, 2009 - Robson Ranch (just west of Denton) will hold its 5th annual health fair. Cost to vendors is only $25 plus a door prize. Deadline to register is 1/23. For info, call Judy Ruggiero at 940-246-1042.
March 19, 2009 - DFW CMSA Conference. More details to follow shortly (I believe this is a 2-day conference).
March 26, 2009 - Enhancing Life at Every Stage of Alzheimer's: Alzheimer's Association N Central 2009 Spring Symposium in Fort Worth. Sponsorships and exhibit booths now available, deadline for payment is 3/13/09. Space is limited to 45 vendors. For info or registration materials, contact Shelly Young at 817-336-4949 or shelly.young@alz.org.
On April 13 and 14, 2009, TCU Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences will present the 2009 Hogstel Gerontological Nursing Symposium, entitled, "Use it or Lose it: Partnerships for Healthy Aging." Jennie Chin-Hansen, RN, MS, FAAN, and current AARP President, will be the keynote speaker. 5 contact hours of CEU's will be available.
Excellence in Aging – Going to Bat for Seniors, the April 2009 Texas Conference on Aging, an educational conference on aging issues, will be held from 4/26 to 4/29/09 at the Sheraton Hotel in Arlington, TX. Space for exhibit booths is limited; payment is due 1/15/09. For more info, contact Lois Durant at (903) 729-6344 or loisdur1@embarqmail.com.
Check out our NEWSLETTER for several new articles: "Holiday Tips for Caregivers" and "Can I Take my Loved One out for a Holiday?" by Teresa Wilks of Colonial Gardens, "Do you Use Oxygen EQuipment?" legislative update contributed by Tom Polston of Specialty Medical Sales and "Holiday Reminders" by Cheryl Acres. To read these informative new articles and more in our newsletter, click on Newsletter in the block at the TOP of this web page.
LOOKING FOR COMMUNITY EDUCATION OR A PROFESSIONAL MEETING OR SEMINAR?
Our CALENDAR is a great place to find community education, professional seminars offering CEU's, professional marketing and networking meetings and community senior and health fairs. Click on CALENDAR at the TOP of this home page to view upcoming events. If you have an event you would like us to post on our calendar, please call us at 972-809-0247 or e-mail us with the event details and your contact information at general@e-senior services.net; please put CALENDAR in the subject of the e-mail.
DO YOU NEED A SPEAKER OR A CEU PROGRAM?
If you need a speaker for your community group, church or business to discuss the needs of aging adults or family care givers, please call us at 972-809-0247, or e-mail your request to general@e-seniorservices.net (please put SPEAKER in the subject of the e-mail.)
If you would like to host a continuing education program for nurses or social workers regarding the needs of aging adults and family care givers, resources for older adults or related medical ethics topics, please call us at 972-809-0247, or e-mail your request to general@e-seniorservices.net (please put CEU in the subject of the e-mail.)
HINTS FOR USING THE SITE: To see tips on how to more easily use our web site, click your mouse here on "read more".
To make the print larger, look for the 3 small boxes with the letter A in three sizes (small, medium, large) towards the upper right of each web page. Use your mouse to click on the size of type that is easiest for you to read.
You can learn about a topic that interests you by clicking on "Directory" at the top of this home page, The directory is like the table of contents in a book. You will see large topics listed and then more specific topics listed under those large topics. Use your mouse to click on any topic that interests you and the web site will take you to that topic. Once inside the web site, if you are having difficulty moving around (what the computer experts call navigating the site), use your mouse to click at the bottom of the page for the directory and then again click on the new topic that interests you.
When you are reading an informational page about your selected topic on our web site, you will generally see only the first paragraph of text. If you want to learn more on the subject, click on the "read more" at the end of that first paragraph.
When you are reading the informational text on a topic you have selected, look for subdirectories listed on the right side of the page. If subdirectories appear, you can use your mouse to click on any of those for more detailed information and to find listings of providers of related services or products.
If you are looking at the businesses listed in a directory of service providers, they usually are shown in alphabetical order. You can move from page to page in each provider directory by clicking on the next page/previous page directions. If you look towards the upper right of the directory listings, you will see a section that says sort and city/zip. By clicking on either of those, you can sort the listings by city (cities are shown alphabetically) or by zip code, in order to help you find a service close to you. The larger listings at the top of each list of providers indicate those businesses are members of the E-Senior Services Network. Those businesses pay an annual fee to help support our educational programs and this web site and we thank them for their support.
