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Welcome to Senior Help Forum!
In the fall of 2008, they met for lunch and were discussing how difficult and time consuming it has been gathering information to help their aging parents. The more they chatted about their struggles with others, the more it became apparent that many of their friends, family members and colleagues shared their circumstances.
Sharing all of the resources that they have worked so hard to gather just seemed like the right thing to do. Thus, the birth of Senior Help Forum (SHF). SHF is a blog geared toward the sharing of information and resources associated with the aging process and caring for those who need additional support (physical, emotional, and financial) from their family, friends and community at large.
They encourage you to share any resources that you have found to be of help.
About Laura C. McGowan, Ph.D.
Laura McGowan is a communications professional that currently resides in Chicago, IL. She has over twenty years of experience in advertising, marketing, research, Interactive communications, and university teaching.
Sadly, Laura lost her father to heart disease a little over six years ago. Unfortunately, her mother began to have chronic health problems soon after. Laura quickly began pulling her hair out trying to find good, reliable information and resources on caring for an elderly woman with chronic health problems. She has found the support of family and friends, and the Internet to be of tremendous help.
Laura sees SHF as a wonderful opportunity to build on her professional experience in marketing communications and web development – - while sharing all of the valuable information she has found on caring for the aging with the global Interactive community.
About Alan White
Alan is a social researcher by profession.
His parents recently moved to an assisted living community nearby and he’s relieved at not having to worry about his parents for days when they improperly hung up the phone and he was unable to contact them, or make the 250 mile trek, to see if they were all right.
Working on SHF appealed to his sensibilities of, ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’, by creating a place where the discoveries on behalf of his parents can create some greater value by helping someone else.