Aging Well
The Hurricane's A-Coming
A natural disaster offers the opportunity to stop,
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By Liisa Ogburn
In running around town yesterday, checking on old clients and looking for urgent placements for new ones, here are some notes from the field on how those working in the elder industry are preparing for Hurricane Florence.
Yesterday, Windsor Point, a CCRC in Fuqua Varina, took in nine residents temporarily from a community in Swansboro as a precaution against the storm.
Aware Senior Care instructed its caregivers to bring an overnight bag to work Thursday in the event that falling trees or other hurricane-related events obstruct cause obstructions.
The Cardinal, a CCRC at North Hills in Raleigh, sent out an eBlast Tuesday night informing residents and their families that all power would be turned off Wednesday morning for 30 minutes to test the generators.
Brian Quenneville, Director of Carillon Fuqua, was inflating a mattress in his office when I arrived to tour their Assisted Living and Memory Care rooms. “I’m living here,” he told me.
Delivery trucks were unloading supplies in front of Woodland Terrace, Sunset Cary and Brookdale, too, when I arrived at each to tour.
All these efforts for the people who have caregivers made me think about all those who don’t.
There are a lot of them.
Be a good neighbor. Check on them. See if they need any help—both before Florence hits, and after.
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