Ways to Care For a Senior When They Live Far Away If you’re working and raising a family while worrying about the well-being of your aging parent or parents, you’re not alone. A senior citizen or older adult is defined as someone 65+ years or older, and there are 56 million in the [...]
COVID-19’s Effect On Nonprofits Most non-profits help others because of funding from individual & corporate donors, as well as from grants and foundations. Traditionally, fundraising is an ongoing initiative that ensures non-profits can continue to help others. But for many non-profits, COVID-19 has shifted fundraising from being important to being vital to their very survival. With most [...]
COVID-19 and What It Means To Older Adults Last week the COVID-19 virus became a pandemic, then on Friday, The President announced we are in the midst of a National Emergency. Before COVID-19 was listed as a pandemic or put us into a National Emergency, we did not think too much about the virus. [...]
What Is Caregiver Burnout? When doing some research about senior topics and trends we came across something we very rarely talk about. We spend so much time talking about seniors that we never touched on the topic of caregivers. We are hearing a lot of buzz about caregivers and the care that they are [...]
Why DSCC Needs Volunteers DuPage Senior Citizens Council has a strong message and rich culture within DuPage County. We provide 4,700 seniors with services that are essential to their everyday lives. You may ask, how do they serve that many people? The answer is simple volunteers! Our volunteers make all aspects of our organization [...]
Four Ways a Well-Being Check Makes a Difference When we tell people we are the Meals On Wheels Provider for DuPage County a lot of the time we get a response or comment that relates just to the food. Not very often do we get recognition for providing a service that allows a senior [...]
