Women’s Independent Press

Family caregivers may not have time to accompany a senior loved one to the doctor. However, if the senior is willing, it could be vital that an older adult have someone there. That’s because there’s a lot of information that a senior’s doctor should know. A health professional must be told the medicines that older adult is taking, whether that senior has allergies, if that loved one is being treated by another doctor for an illness or is not taking the medications that have already been prescribed. If no one is available to go to the doctor with a senior, it will help to write down all that information for a parent.

The Home Instead Senior Care® network has worked with Humana Points of Caregiving® to develop a resource that also will help. An information management tool and the Senior Emergency KitSM website include a doctor visit worksheet and other valuable resources. Listed below are some questions to discuss with your senior’s doctor.

What is your main health concern right now?
Do you have any new symptoms, such as pain?
What changes have you noticed in your health since your last visit?
If you currently take medication for pain or any other symptom, how is it working?
Have you started any new medications? What are they? Do you have any side effects from the
medicines you take?
Have you seen other doctors before this visit? Have you had diagnostic tests or other treatments?
Do you want to discuss those results?

For fifteen years, the Home Instead Senior Care® franchise network has been devoted to providing seniors with the highest quality care in their own homes, and to arming families with the information they need to make the best decisions about caring for aging loved ones. Family caregivers can visit www.SeniorEmergencyKit.com for more information and resources to help them track their seniors’ medications.

Until next time, if you, or any organization of which you are a part, is interested in learning more, please contact our office. We would be happy to speak to your group free of charge about this subject, our services, or even employment opportunities.

Sincerely,

Rebecca Champagne, Human Resource Coordinator
Home Instead Senior Care
1102 S Braddock Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
Phone: (412) 731-0733
Rebecca.Champagne@HomeInstead.com
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1.That Billie Jean King was born on November 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California?

2.That at the Los Angeles Tennis Club in 1955, Billie Jean was barred from
posing for a group picture of junior tennis players because she was wearing tennis shorts and not a tennis skirt?

3.That Billie Jean was the first female athlete in any sport to earn more than $100,000 in a single season($117,000, 1971?

4.That in 1973 King lobbied for, and obtained, equal prize money
for men and women at the US Open?

5.That Billie Jean Founded the Women’s Tennis Association (1973),
the Women’s Sports Foundation (1974), Women’s Sports Magazine
(1974) and co-founded GreenSlam, an environmental initiative
for the sports industry (2007)?

6.That Billie Jean was the first woman to coach a co-ed team in professional sports (Philadelphia Freedoms, WTT, 1974)?

7.That Billie Jean defeated Bobby Riggs in one of the greatest moments in sports history - the Battle of the Sexes in 1973 and that this match is remembered for its effect on society and its contribution to the women’s movement?

8.That Billie Jean was the first woman commissioner in professional
sports history (World TeamTennis, 1984)?

9. That Billie Jean was one of nine players who broke away from the tennis establishment and accepted $1 contracts from tennis promoter Gladys Heldman in Houston. The revolt led to the birth of women’s professional tennis and the formation of the Virginia Slims Tour and Women’s Tennis Association?

10. That Billie Jean was named Global Mentor for Gender Equality by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2008 and received the NCAA President’s Gerald R. Ford Award in 2009, recognizing her contributions to improving higher education and intercollegiate athletics?

11. That Billie Jean continues to be a leader in the fight for equality and recognition in the GLBT community, and has been honored by many of the leading GLBT organizations, including the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD and Lambda Legal Foundation?

12.That Billie Jean currently serves on the boards of the Women’s Sports Foundation and the Elton John AIDS Foundation?

13.That Billie won her first Wimbledon title 50 years ago?And was the Only woman to win U.S. singles title on four surfaces (grass, clay, carpet, hard courts)?

14.That Elton John wrote his No. 1 hit Philadelphia Freedom for Billie Jean?

July 8 and 29 - KRANNERT CENTER AND FOX/ATKINS PRESENT OUTSIDE AT THE RESEARCH PARK 2011 - 6:30pm –FREE - Krannert Center for the Performing Arts once again joins forces with Fox/Atkins Development, LLC, for a two-show series of summer concerts at the U of I Research Park. Both concerts are free and open to the public. OUTSIDE at the Research Park plays upon a simple concept: great music, fresh food, a green state of mind, and an open, relaxed environment. The performance space and seating area are located just south of the building at the corner of First Street and St. Mary’s Road in Champaign. The tree-lined, grassy space has hosted thousands of audience members each summer since the inception of OUTSIDE in 2007 - Headliners for the 2011 series will be Austin’s high-octane flamenco/rock/world music/guitar magicians known as Del Castillo on July 8 and the Appalachian flat-pickers/Brazilian cross-cultural collaborators of Matuto on July 29 - Visit www.KrannertCenter.com  or call 217/333-6280 or 800/KCPATIX (527-2849).