To advice accommodated the growing appeal of earlier North Carolinians who ambition to abide in their own homes and break as arrogant as possible, Seniors Helping Seniors® In-Home Services (SHS) has accustomed a new authorization at Charlotte, North Carolina, that will awning Mint Hill, Matthews, Harrisburg and locations of South Charlotte.
Seniors Helping Seniors--which has 5 adept authorization holders and some 50 authorization territories in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Florida, Michigan and California--is a civic caregiver and accompaniment alignment and the alone one that matches seniors who charge in-home affliction casework with seniors who accommodate them. Seniors Helping Seniors aswell has franchises confined Raleigh and Jacksonville, N.C.
The newest authorization is endemic and operated by Sharon Mayfield of Mint Hill, N.C., who has formed added than 30 years as a Registered Nurse with acquaintance in abiding care, emergency affliction and education, and who is a certified Assisted Living Administrator and Preceptor.
She is currently active in the Referral Center of the Hospice and Palliative Care Charlotte Region, whose mission is to abate adversity and advance the above and address of activity through compassionate auberge affliction for those at the end of life, booze affliction for those with beat illness, and through association education. She is a accomplished affiliate of the axle of admiral for the North Carolina Assisted Living Association and chaired its latest educational appointment and barter show.
Mayfield aswell has formed for the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, confined seniors. She was the co-developer of Charlotte’s Little Flower Assisted Living Community and served as its assistant and agent and was administrator of Operations for homes in three states run by Hunt Assisted Living.
She abounding the Ohio Valley General Hospital School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, Pa., and accustomed her BS in nursing from West Liberty State College, West Liberty, W. Va.
She begin a Seniors Helping Seniors authorization ambrosial because seniors accept abounding needs alfresco of healthcare that appulse on their lives and well-being. “I accept had abundant acquaintance training caregivers over the years and generally agenda that they accept little in accepted with seniors they are acceptable or their activity experiences. Not alone am I a chief myself, but aswell I accept it is bigger that seniors await on added seniors. That’s what’s different about Seniors Helping Seniors,” she said.
“The casework that Seniors Helping Seniors provides may attending like the ‘cherry on the sundae,’ but I accept abstruse that a chief can ache from added things than poor health. Lack of accompaniment or accident of things loved--like a admirable garden--often ‘kills’ seniors a little bit every day. When seniors accept to leave what they love, including their home, their activity assumption is shortened. In today’s association with seniors active best and their developed accouchement active alive or adopting accouchement themselves, there is a abandoned in award these casework that are capital to the soul, “ she said.
Philip Yocom, who manages the civic Seniors Helping Seniors authorization organization, said he is admiring to acceptable Sharon Mayfield as a authorization partner. “Sharon comes to our Seniors Helping Seniors association with abounding years of nursing and administration acquaintance and a acutely claimed ability about what it agency to be a caregiver for seniors. She will accomplish an accomplished accession to our authorization family, humans who are committed to accouterment the Seniors Helping Seniors casting of loving, giving, caring and compassionate account and who will accomplish our mission in added accretion our affliction giving and accompaniment casework aural North Carolina,” he said.
“I ambition my authorization to be the a lot of trusted provider of non-medical affliction to abetment Charlotte seniors with the things that are important in their life--from accompaniment to home adjustment and gardening.
“I was an absolute developer and abettor of a actual acknowledged assisted active facility, but I was consistently afraid that if something happened to me, what would appear to the residents? The Seniors Helping Seniors ancestors allows me the abandon to run my own business with the account of their acquaintance and the aback up they accommodate to assure that accomplished affliction will continue,” she added.
Philip Yocom, and his wife, Kiran Yocom, co-founded Seniors Helping Seniors In-Home Services (SHS), which began as a non-profit alignment confined Reading and Berks County, Pennsylvania. That aboriginal non-profit alignment today encompasses added than 250 chief providers allowance added than 600 chief receivers. In 2007, the non-profit Seniors Helping Seniors provided about 17,000 hours of service.
Philip Yocom said, “What began as a ardent mission to ample a charge that was not accepting served by our bounded association is now accepting accustomed as a prime business befalling accepting fueled by the fastest growing demographic in our society.”
He said, “We ambition the absolute Seniors Helping Seniors alignment and any approaching franchises to be the aboriginal abode that seniors in charge of non-medical casework and those gluttonous added assets call.”
“We will abutment all our franchisees with all of the ability we accept acquired in active Seniors Helping Seniors. We’ll aswell accommodate marketing, sales, management, and technology support.”
He added, “We accept we accept begin a practical, cost-effective way to advice seniors abide absolute and to abide contributing. As we abound nationwide, we abide committed to accouterment our casting of loving, giving, caring, compassionate service.”
For added information, acquaintance the Sharon Mayfield by e-mail at smayftd@aol.com or by buzz at 704-877-9102. For authorization information, e-mail opportunities@seniorshelpingseniors.com or alarm 610-858-2556.
Contacts:
Sharon Mayfield: smayftd@aol.com or 704-877-9102.
Alan Shirk: alan@shirkcom.com or 610.736.9223.
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