- Terry BallantyneA Few Words About Assisted LivingNovember 18, 2017This is my personal experience, but one that I hear from others is sadly all too common. Choose assisted living, particularly memory care, very carefully. If your parent is healthy and thriving and just needs help with housework or managing medications, assisted living may be appropriate. ADLs (activities of daily living , and IADLs, Instrumental acitivites of daily living , are the skills needed to live independently -- dressing, shopping, cooking, doing laundry, managing a phone. When wrists are bad, or knees are weak, these simple tasks...
- Terry BallantyneA private cozy feelingNovember 15, 2017Rick Warren wrote about " A purpose driven life" long before social media tore the world to shreds. Yet purpose is more important now than ever before. When a child's world consisted of extended family, a modest home, a neighborhood of people talked or even bar-b -qued together, the problems of the neighboring state was far away, and the problems of other countries were distant ideas. Growing up meant a family vacation or fishing with Uncle Ned. It meant Christmas at Gramma's house or your favorite...
- Terry Ballantyne
