

When family members or friends aren't able to help the older adults they love, Home Instead CAREGivers SM can. Help Her Remain Independent With Home Instead Senior Care®

It's very important to her to keep her home and her independent outlook, and it breaks my heart that I can't be there every day. She's still as vibrant as can be in mind and spirit, but some physical challenges are making daily activities harder for her. Her encouragement and influence also helped me become the first college grad in the family.īecause she's been like a second mom to me, I visit Aunt Betty as often as I can. She gave me my first golf lesson and I've been playing ever since. She belonged to the Portland Golf Club and we felt so grown up, sipping our Shirley Temples and eating shrimp cocktails in the clubhouse. Overnight visits to Aunt Betty's were always exciting. We kids hung, entranced, at the top of the stairs listening for every detail, while the adults talked and danced to Bobby Darin and the Everly Brothers in the basement rumpus room. Neighborhood house parties were sure to include conversation about the opening of the Music Box Theatre, construction of Memorial Coliseum or the brand new Portland Buckaroos hockey team. Her career woman's life as a stewardess seemed so sophisticated, with her new house in the new Portland suburb of Bridlemile. People always thought Aunt Betty was my mother, and I was delighted to be compared to this fashionable, fun-loving woman.
