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Comfort Keepers® News & Highlights
In this section, we’ve gathered recent and archived news releases about Comfort Keepers services, developments and accomplishments, as well as news and feature articles that highlight matters of interest to seniors and their caregivers.
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Questions to Ask When Choosing an In-Home Care Provider
Family caregivers often come to the realization they need help caring for a senior parent or other loved one when they consider their other responsibilities at work and home. However, giving up some of the responsibility to someone else can be difficult. After all, how are you going to find a caregiver who provides the same degree of quality caregiving and devotion that you provide your loved one?
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What to Pack (and Not to Pack) for the Hospital
Well-planned packing helps make vacations more enjoyable. Likewise, what you pack for your own or a loved one’s admission to the hospital can make for a smoother, less stressful experience.
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Living With Heart Disease And Stroke: A Family Affair
Seniors and other adults recovering from a heart attack or stroke—and their families—face many new physical and emotional challenges and feelings of uncertainty. If you find yourself in this situation, you do not need to feel alone. Many resources are available to help patients and families cope and gain hope in the midst of the physical and psychological obstacles commonly encountered in the wake of a stroke or heart attack.
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Skin-Deep Advice For Better Senior Health
How much our skin and wrinkles betray our age depends a lot on our genes as well as our lifestyle, such as smoking, diet, physical activity and how well we protect our skin from the sun. Even in our later years, lifestyle can help us improve our skin health, according to the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD). Although good lifestyle practices cannot reverse the aging process, they can slow and ease the effects, even if we may not have been as careful as we should have been in our younger years.
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Shedding Light On Seasonal Depression: What Seniors Can Do To Relieve The Symptoms
As days grow shorter, and daylight becomes scarce in late fall and winter, 4 to 6 percent of Americans experience a form of depression called winter-onset Seasonal Affective Disorder *(SAD). Another 10 to 20 percent have milder cases. Many mistakenly write off SAD as the winter blues or cabin fever, but as a recognized type of clinical depression, SAD requires professional diagnosis and attention, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) advises.
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Why An Efficient, Nutrient-Rich Diet Is Essential To Senior Health
A nutritious diet is especially important for seniors’ health. That is because a variety of factors puts older adults at greater risk of malnutrition, according to the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These factors include chronic disease, physical disability, isolation,limited income and medications that limit nutrient absorption.
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Interactive Caregiving™ Makes Life Better
Learn how our approach to in-home care called Interactive Caregiving is giving seniors a healthier and brighter outlook on life.
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Know the Care a Senior Needs
The free Care Assessment Guide helps families identify senior care needs and options.
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Winter Survival for Seniors
Not all senior citizens are lucky enough to spend the winter in sunny locales like Florida or Arizona. Many seniors from northern climes stay put for the winter, doing their best to cope with the harsh weather.
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Technology Helps Seniors Stay in Touch with Loved Ones
Today’s technology gives independent-living seniors and their families and friends a growing array of easy, convenient ways to stay connected, across the country or across town.
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What to Do? Tips for Time Management
Senior citizens may have fewer demands on their time, but they still have a lot on their schedules.
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Adapting Homes to Seniors’ Changing Needs
More Americans are choosing to “age in place.” That is, they opt to stay in their homes rather than move to alternative retirement settings.
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What’s Good for the Heart Is Good for the Brain
When you take healthful eating to heart, it will go to your head, too.
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Life Goes Better With Exercise
The benefits of exercise, unlike the Fountain of Youth, are real—even for senior citizens who avoided exercise in their younger years.
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Get Moving: How To Slow The Effects Of Aging
Just because you are getting older, it does not mean you have to look it—or feel it. With a little effort, you can slow the telltale signs of aging.
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Memory Loss:When Is It Normal? When Is It Not?
Where did I put my keys? Or, where did I park my car? For most people, these questions probably sound more than vaguely familiar.
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Interactive Caregiving:Comfort Keepers Helps Seniors Enhance Their Quality Of Life
One of the most difficult parts of growing older is losing long-time friends. Life can get lonely as we age. In-home care providers, however, can offer companionship as they assist seniors with the tasks of daily living.
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Holiday Gift Time and Seniors
Shopping for seniors who have everything—or who are working on downsizing—may be difficult. But there are plenty of holiday gifts that take up little or no space, yet are big on uplifting a senior’s spirits.
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Gathering for the Holidays: Celebrating the Moment and the Memories
Observing family holiday traditions—like gathering around the Christmas tree to sing favorite carols or lighting a Menorah—can go a long way to adding joy and comfort to a senior’s family holiday celebration.
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Holiday Craftmaking: An Interactive Celebration of Its Own
Family and professional caregivers can bring joy to a senior’s holiday season – and make him or her more active and involved in the season – with little more than the gift of time and some materials for crafts and decorations.
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Be Prepared: The Key To Senior Safety During The Winter And Holidays
Winter—for many, a season of cold winds, ice, snow and isolation—is an especially important time for family, friends, neighbors and caregivers to keep a caring eye on seniors to make sure they are safe, doing well and have what they need.
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Seniors Need to Choose Their Foods Carefully for Healthy Living
The importance of good nutrition spans the generations, but as we age, our dietary requirements change. For one thing, seniors need roughly 25 percent fewer calories than younger adults.
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Hunger and the Senior: 5 Million Seniors at Risk of Malnutrition
Hunger and malnutrition is a greater problem for America’s seniors than many may realize—and it is due to a wide variety of causes, not just financial constraints.
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Good Nutrition Gives Seniors What They Need for Better Living
Hunger and malnutrition prove to be a much greater issue for seniors than younger adults due to a wide range of social circumstances, such as living alone, and health conditions, such as dementia.
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Food For Senior Life: Preparation & Storage
Each year about 76 million Americans become ill from eating foods contaminated by bacteria, viruses or parasites, the National Institutes of Health (NIH – www.nih.gov) reports.
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Dental Hygiene Is Essential to Senior Health
Through improved dental health and hygiene, today’s seniors are maintaining more of their natural teeth than elders of previous generations.
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Be on Guard This Cold and Flu Season
With the added risk of swine flu, or the H1N1 virus, it is more important than ever to take precautions this flu and cold season.
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Your Appearance May Affect Your Emotions
For seniors, maintaining good personal appearance often goes hand in hand with maintaining a sense of purpose in life.
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Seniors Reap the Benefits of Volunteering
In-home care providers help senior citizens continue living independently in their own homes, assisting them with the routine tasks of homemaking and personal care.
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In-Home Care Offers Flexible Independence
As they grow older, baby boomers are looking ahead to the time they’ll need assistance with day-to-day living.
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In-Home Care: A Solution for Baby Boomers Now and in the Future
Baby boomers will start reaching retirement age in 2011. With 78 million of them in total, they’ll make a significant impact in their senior years, as they have at every phase of their lives.
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Passing on Wisdom from Generation to Generation
Today’s seniors have lived through significant historic events and change – from the Great Depression and World War II to rapid-fire advances in technology and medical science.
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Tips for Trouble-Free Senior Travel
No trip or vacation is complete without a checklist. So here are some things to think in order to help seniors make their trips as healthful, safe and trouble-free as possible.
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Seniors and Driving: How to Steer through a Difficult Turn
Whether we are going to the grocery store, the doctor’s office, the golf course or to visit a friend, the ability to drive provides us a sense of independence.
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Stress and Seniors: Knowing the Signs and Solutions
The realities of senior living often do not match up with the carefree images on glossy retirement community sales brochures and magazine advertisements.
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Press Release - 2006 - Comfort Keepers Adds Director of Franchise Development
DAYTON, Ohio (August 28, 2006) – CK Franchising, Inc, an international franchisor that offers companionship and other in-home care services primarily for seniors under the COMFORT KEEPERS® brand, announced today it has named Jim Brown as a director of franchise development. Brown will use his vast
knowledge of the franchise industry, as well as his experience in sales management, to grow the Comfort Keepers’ Franchise within the United States.
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Press Release - 2006 - Central Florida Entrepreneurs Honored as Comfort Keepers IFA Franchisees of the Year
DAYTON, Ohio (April 12, 2006) – CK Franchising, Inc, an international franchisor that offers companionship and other non-medical services primarily for seniors under the COMFORT KEEPERS® brand, recently named two Gainesville, FL. entrepreneurs as 2005 Comfort Keepers IFA Franchisees of the Year. The mother/daughter team of Lynn Domenech and Jocelyn Holt, own three Comfort Keepers offices in Florida – one in Gainesville, a second in Ocala and the third in Lake County.
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Press Release - 2006 - Comfort Keepers Wins Franchise Satisfaction Award
DAYTON, Ohio (April 10, 2006) – CK Franchising, Inc., an international franchisor that offers companionship and other non-medical services primarily for seniors under the COMFORT KEEPERS® brand, was recently appointed a Top 50 franchisor in a survey conducted by Franchise Business Review.
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Press Release - 2006 - Comfort Keepers Announces New President, CEO
DAYTON, Ohio (March 21, 2006) – CK Franchising, Inc, an international franchisor that offers companionship and other non-medical services primarily for seniors under the COMFORT KEEPERS® brand, announced today it has named Jim Booth as its new president and CEO effective immediately. Booth will use his 35 years of experience in the healthcare industry, as well as his experience as a business executive, to strengthen and grow the Comfort Keepers brand nationwide.
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Press Release - 2005 - Comfort Keepers Brings ‘Comfort’ Business to Ireland
Dayton, Ohio (December 19, 2005) – Comfort Keepers, an international franchise that offers companionship and other non-medical services for aging adults, has announced its expansion plans for Ireland, with its first office opening this month in Dublin. Company projections call for 10 locations throughout Ireland by 2007. The launch in Ireland follows the opening of first Comfort Keepers office in the United Kingdom in July 2005. With
the growing senior population worldwide and continued expansion into Europe, Comfort Keepers aims to meet the demand for quality senior care across international markets.
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Press Release - 2005 - Comfort Keepers Achieves Milestone with 500th Office
DAYTON, Ohio (December 5, 2005) – Recognizing the tremendous need for quality senior care providers, Comfort Keepers, an international franchise offering companionship and other in home non-medical services for aging adults, new mothers and others needing assistance, recently opened its 500th office.
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Press Release - 2008 - Providing the best franchising opportunities in Asia
Franchising & Licensing Asia (FLAsia) 2009 provides you with the right platform for business expansion. Thousands flock to FLAsia every year from around Asia and beyond seeking business opportunities, and it is the best place to discover potential franchisees, licensees, investors and business partners.
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Press Release - 2009 - Arcadia's DailyMed Continues to Expand
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 4 -- Arcadia Resources, Inc. (NYSE Amex: KAD), a leading provider of innovative consumer health care services under the Arcadia HealthCare(SM) brand, has signed an agreement with a leading national in-home care provider Comfort Keepers((R) )to provide DailyMed(TM) for Comfort Keepers franchisees in 14 states.
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Press Release - 2006 - Comfortkeepers.com Offers More Functionality and Resources for Seniors and Franchisees
DAYTON, Ohio (September 18, 2006) – With thousands of monthly visitors, the new Comfortkeepers.com offers several helpful online resources and improved functionality for both users and its franchisees
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Press Release - 2006 - Comfort Keepers® Develops New Program to Support Franchisees
DAYTON, Ohio (September 29, 2006) – Consistency and commitment to operational excellence are key in any global franchise business. That is why CK Franchising, Inc. (CKFI) dba Comfort Keepers, has redefined the responsibilities and priorities of their eight regional franchise business consultants.
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Press Release - 2008 - Taking Care of Business
By SIMONA COVEL
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Press Release - 2007 - Comfort Keepers Receives 2006 Star Award in Franchise Recruitment
DAYTON, Ohio (April 26, 2007) – Comfort Keepers, an international franchise that offers companionship and other non-medical services for aging adults, recently received a 2006 STAR Award as an online winner.
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Press Release - 2007 - Caregivers Providing End of Life Care Need Support
DAYTON, Ohio (April 10, 2007) – The Hospice Foundation of America estimates that almost half a million people, 68 percent being age 65 or older, received hospice care in 2006. For most, that care involved a family caregiver.
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Press Release - 2007 - Aging Veterans Unaware of Pension Benefits
DAYTON, Ohio, March 12, 2007 - According to Veterans Affairs analysis, only 27 percent of veterans and 14 percent of widow(er)s who are likely eligible, actually receive any money from the Veterans Non-Service Connected Improved Pension Benefit Program, also referred to as Aids and Attendance.
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Press Release - 2007 - Comfort Keepers Executive Earns Franchise Certification
DAYTON, Ohio (March 11, 2007)— Jim Brown, director of franchise development for Dayton-based Comfort Keepers Franchising Inc., was recently designated as a Certified Franchise Executive by the Institute of Certified Franchise Executives.
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Press Release - 2007 - Comfort Keepers Executive Earns Franchise Certification
DAYTON, Ohio (March 11, 2007)— Jim Brown, director of franchise development for Dayton-based Comfort Keepers Franchising Inc., was recently designated as a Certified Franchise Executive by the Institute of Certified Franchise Executives.
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Press Release - 2006 - Providing Comfort to the Family Caregiver
DAYTON, Ohio, (November 15, 2006) – According to the National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA), more than one quarter (26.6 percent) of the adult population has provided care for a chronically ill, disabled or aging family member or friend during the past year. Based on current census data, that translates into more than 50 million people.
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Press Release - 2006 - Comfort Keepers Meeting the Changing Needs of the Growing Senior Population
DAYTON, Ohio, (October 23, 2006) – Facing the challenges and opportunities associated with working with seniors is a key to the growing business of in-home care. Comfort Keepers Franchising, Inc. (CKFI) intends to stay in the forefront with those needs by encouraging owners to become Certified Senior Advisors (CSA).
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Press Release - 2009 - Arcadia HealthCare's DailyMed(TM) Signs Deal with Comfort Keepers(R), A Leading Provider of In-Home Care
Agreement Provides DailyMed to Comfort Keepers Franchisees in 14 States, With National Expansion Intentions INDIANAPOLIS, Aug.
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Press Release - 2009 - Dayton region has 20 companies among nation's fastest-growing
Twenty companies in the Dayton region ranked among the country’s fastest growing private businesses, according to Inc. magazine
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Press Release - 2009 - CK FRANCHISING, INC. PURCHASED BY SODEXO
(DAYTON, Ohio)---CK Franchising, Inc., dba Comfort Keepers®, a leading franchise network providing in-home care for seniors and other adults, has been purchased by Sodexo, one of the world’s leading food and facilities management services companies and the global leader in the health care and seniors markets.
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Press Release - 2009 - Sodexo acquires Comfort Keepers
Aug 20, 2009 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- France-based Sodexo, a provider of food and facilities management services, has acquired 100% of Comfort Keepers, a provider of non-medical in-home services in North America.
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Press Release - 2009 - Comfort Keepers sold to French firm
Comfort Keepers, a locally-based franchisor of in-home health care agencies, has been sold to a global food and facilities manager.