Home Remedies Project

10/09/2021

I sent a copy of the book to our congress person trying to make it it available to caregivers and home health providers.

05/29/2020

The corona virus has shown how vulnerable the elderly are in live in care facilities. Moving in with family members when possible is becoming the preferred option.
Minor home modifications are often required.
This is a practical guide to doing a needs assessment and includes the four questions to better planning.
Color photographs and text show solutions to many common problems we all face as an aging population
Making the Transition to Home-simple modifications to encourage independent living. By Paul Furtaw.
Available at Authorhouse.com
Think about it, this SHOULD go viral, please share

12/11/2017

Have you ever wondered why some seniors are just mad at everything? As a caregiver, it can be rough caring for someone who is just not happy.
I have come to realize that anger is one of the seven stages of grief. The grieving process is very personal and often related to the loss of independence.
We first gained our sense of independence as little kids when we broke from our parents. Raising a family and having a career meant making all your own decisions. A life time of it.
The fact they now have a caregiver, means they have lost that sense and grieve that loss.
As a caregiver, helping the grieving process along to the acceptance stage could benefit the whole family.

08/26/2017

Making the Transition to Home : simple modifications to encourage independent living, by Paul Furtaw, is available at authorhouse.com
An excellent tool for case managers, discharge planners, and other professionals involved with providing senior services who are having to explain simple home modifications

09/21/2015

Just sent my bio to Linda Parks (ventura county board of supervisors office) as I will be presenting the Family Guide to Trip and Fall Prevention November 14 at channel island campus

06/25/2015

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0g657x91xzfubem/KPR.pdf?dl=0

Check out the Family Guide to Trip and Fall Prevention
This self guiding text and photos can be shown in a group setting. The Home Remedies Project is about helping seniors live independently in their own homes

Shared with Dropbox

03/09/2015

The Home Remedies Project would like to hear from you about interest in developing an independent living strategist in your community. Developing new caregiver support programs is best done with both private and public sectors involved. The Home Remedies Project is ready to help train both sectors to work together

12/03/2014

I have recieved some e mail from USC sharing their interest in helping the Home Remedies Project develop curriculum to train future independent living strategists. Caregiver support programs are going to be needed as the baby boomers will become a VERY LARGE demographic in this country. Seems the past 17 years experience supplying services to the frail and elderly might get put to good use

11/17/2014

The idea of the Home Remedies Project is to develop more caregiver support programs by training more independent living strategists. It is one thing for a case manager to do a needs assessment and recommend grab bars, and quite another to have someone participating in the HRP, offerering vouchers for service who also does a needs assessmnt, but then says I have them on my truck and is ready to install them.

09/10/2014

Meeting Friday with potential new board member. Marcia seems very interested in the Home Remedies Project. I have known her for years as a client of Home Remedies. Several modifications around her home were needed for mobility reasons. I hope to post some thoughts going forward after we speak in a few days.

08/25/2014

The Home Remedies Project needs your financial support. If you can, make a tax deductable donation to become an advocate for growing caregiver support programs around the country. Training the providers who wil help families live independently in their own homes is the goal. Help us reach out.
The Home Remedies Project
1250 potter ave
Thousand Oaks, california 91360
www.hrpro.me

07/28/2014

The truth of the matter is that we may not have any choice BUT to live in our own homes longer. It has taken 50 years to build the existing housing inventory in this country today. Do you think we can flip a switch and have enough "Universal Designed " homes for a growing demographic we have yet to understand the size of. The Mission statement for my company (Home Remedies) has always been to "facilitate the homecoming of recovering patients through the modification of the home environment. A personalized approach, to your specific set of circumstances, by someone trained in offering minor home modification services to the elderly and their caregivers, able to offer vouchers for specific services. Ramps and grab bars are just a couple of the many common solutions we will all face someday. By bringing the public and private sectors together is the best way to grow the number of trusted and recognized service providers. The nonprofit Home Remedies Project (501c3) is all about advocating and sharing a history based business model. A training program designed to devlop more "Independent Living Strategist"
I hope you follow the Home Remedies Project as we grow.
Fundraising will begin soon enough. A lot of written materials and postage need to be funded,
A trusted, reliable, consistent, responsable, service provider for our caregivers will come from our efforts.