I am a Certified Senior Advisor and member of the Society of Certified Senior Advisors, an organization that keeps professionals abreast of health, financial and social issues affecting seniors by providing education, training, support and communication resources.
It's a designation I earned shortly after my wife, Marian, and I started Senior Helpers in 2008. Earlier, we experienced a need for and the benefits of in-home care for Marian's mother, who lived with us for 12 years and required much care as her health deteriorated.
We serve the metro Orlando area with caregivers who provide companionship and help with a variety of tasks -- what we call assisted living at home.
Marian is a graduate of Rollins College (1999, B.A., humanities), where she completed studies begun in the early 1980s at Oklahoma State University. Before Senior Helpers, she was a Spanish teacher with Florida Virtual School.
I have a business/math bachelor's degree from Wake Forest University (1979, Winston-Salem, N.C.) and a master's in journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill (1984). We moved to Orlando in 1997 when I became business editor and later publisher of magazines owned by The Golfweek Group.
There's a wealth of information here, gleaned from interviews with experts in a variety of fields directly related to seniors and their well-being -- shows on memory disorders; geriatric care and care services; support systems for caregivers; financial tools such as reverse mortgages, long-term care insurance, Veterans Administration benefits that will pay for in-home care and much more. All the shows are in a question-and-answer format, recorded live (with some holiday exceptions) in the studios of WDBO 580 AM on John Young Parkway in Orlando at 6 a.m. Saturdays. If you missed the shows then, listen to them now.