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Safe at Home Volunteer Event to Help Seniors in Indianapolis

CICOA Makes Homes Safer for Seniors in Martindale-Brightwood Neighborhood During Ninth Annual Safe at Home

When Pearl worked at the Martindale-Brightwood Community Development Center, she used to help CICOA identify seniors who needed a helping hand during CICOA’s annual Safe at Home event. This year, she got a little help at her own home. More...
Fat Matters if You Want a Healthy Heart

Fat Matters if You Want a Healthy Heart: 4 Tips to Help You Get the Fat You Need

Remember the no-fat, fad diets that promised how much weight you’d lose if you’d just cut out all the fat in your life? Like most fad diets, it didn’t work. In fact, we ended up packing on pounds, not shedding...
Caregiving and Your Financial Future

Caregiving and Your Financial Future

What happens when a loved one’s needs increase and you, as a caregiver, are faced with the daunting responsibility of providing extensive care? Perhaps caregiving started with transporting the loved one to doctor appointments or the supermarket, and now the...
Caregiving for her mom with Alzheimer's

Indy Mom Finds Help Caring for Parents at Home

Sherry was stuck. She knew there were resources to help her parents – her 75-year-old mom, who has had Alzheimer’s for eight years, and her 77-year-old dad, who is legally blind – but she didn’t know where to turn. Her...
Meeting People Where THey Are

Meeting People Where They Are

We’re all on a journey of some kind. A journey is defined as traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time. Is your journey through life full of adventure and exploration? Is it a pilgrimage with...
Who You Gonna Call

Who You Gonna Call?

As a caregiver coach for CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions, I’ve seen many new caregivers suddenly in need of information about Home and Community Based Service (HCBS) or other resources for optimizing quality of life for a loved one. Without...

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