Aging Care Experts

11/14/2025

Excited to treat this very deserving family caregiver to a day of self-care! Thank you for nominating her!

11/14/2025

From Amanda at Platinum Benefit Services, Inc:

"Caregiver, you deserve to relax after taking care of your mom and your husband. Now it’s time to take care of you

11/13/2025

Just finished the final class of my course. Talk about some heavy lifting! 📖🤓🧠💪 We all agreed this was the meatiest CEU course any of us has ever participated in. But what insight, education, and resources! Excited to put this to use for our clients and colleagues in the community.

11/09/2025

11/08/2025

Don't forget to nominate a deserving family caregiver for a self-care package! We still have three to give away the rest of this month.

Thank you to everyone who has nominated a caregiver already, including and whose nominee was our first winner!! 💆‍♀️🍝🥳

Nominate at https://forms.gle/6bLstr1it4XsfVQD6

11/06/2025

Tinia Polk Kenemuth is hosting her wonderful Access Art class at the Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art for Watson Clinic Foundation's Arts & Health Week. There's still time to sign up! Get your loved one there, it's worth it. 🎨🖌️🖼️

Participants will create and discuss art with specially trained educator and artist, Tinia Clark.

11/06/2025

🌟 You’re Invited! 🌟
Join us for an inspiring afternoon focused on the vital resources that make our community truly Age Friendly! 💜 Please share.

🗓 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
🕑 2–4 p.m.
📍 The Well – 114 E. Parker St., Lakeland

Enjoy light refreshments, meaningful connections, and conversations that empower older adults and their families to connect, thrive, and engage.

💬 Hear from local experts on:
✨ Brain health & dementia prevention
✨ Hospice care and quality of life
✨ Transit and mobility access
✨ Medicare and healthcare navigation
✨ Volunteerism & community impact
✨ Local Age-Friendly initiatives

This free community event is open to all — neighbors, caregivers, and advocates alike!
Let’s build a stronger, more connected Lakeland together. 💪💜

✨ Thank you to our food sponsor — Lake Morton & our venue sponsor, The Well — for supporting this community event! ✨



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11/04/2025

Get this: "Participants who were providing care and experiencing caregiver strain had mortality risks that were 63% higher than noncaregiving controls. Participants who were providing care but not experiencing strain and those with a disabled spouse who were not providing care did not have elevated adjusted mortality rates relative to the noncaregiving controls." Mortality rates 63% higher?!?! 🤯
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/192209

This study this from 1999, and more recent studies show some contradictory evidence, that caregiving may actually have some health benefits. Perhaps similar to how caring for grandchildren increases longevity of grandparents by increasing their physical activity and social engagement. But I think what's interesting to note in the quote above is that it is regarding caregivers who are "experiencing strain." So caregivers who are not incorporating supports or struggling to get their loved one to accept outside help. No one to lean on: professional caregivers, care management, adult day centers, assisted living, etc. And for those caregivers who try to or have to shoulder the burden alone, I have seen firsthand the physical toll the stress, anxiety, and insomnia take.

So take a break! Take care of yourself. It will do you a world of good. Nominate yourself or someone you know to win one of our self-care packages we're giving away this month.
https://forms.gle/6bLstr1it4XsfVQD6

11/04/2025

Absolutely loved the opening event of week! Beautiful, moving performances and amazing collaboration between artists and clinicians. So proud to see this happening in our community! Art brings such value, release, therapy, joy, peace, and connection, our patients/clients need it! Check out what other events are going on this week:
https://artsandhealthweek2025.godaddysites.com/

11/03/2025

All of us at Aging Care Experts have experienced family caregiving, and it's a huge part of why we do what we do. I feel so passionate that families should not and do not have to go through this journey alone. The burden on family caregivers is immense: online research, local provider options, insurance and government benefits, budgeting, advocating at appointments, tracking medications and supplies, being available and responsive 24/7. And all that on top of their emotional journey: love, concern, grief, frustration, worry, want, guilt, loneliness, decision fatigue, and more. They often operate at max capacity and take too little time for self care. Far too often the stress of caregiving takes a physical toll on the caregiver and jeopardizes their health and ability to provide care. So that's why this month we're giving away a self care package every week: $100 to a massage spa and $50 to Olive Garden. Caregivers need to take care of themselves and we want to help lighten the load. So please nominate the family caregivers you know, men and women alike. We want to celebrate and appreciate them all month long!

https://forms.gle/6bLstr1it4XsfVQD6

10/24/2025

We're excited to support the American Parkinson's Disease Association by putting a team into the 2025 Optimism Walk. We'd appreciate your support donating to our team or coming to walk with us!

Every day, APDA provides the support, education, and research that will help everyone impacted by Parkinson’s disease live life to the fullest.

10/17/2025

Excited to support this wonderful organization! My mom was one of the founding members and I'm honored to keep her legacy going. Better Living for Seniors of Polk County is the single best entity for making connections and knowing resources in the elder care industry in Polk and I'm excited to help it continue to grow and thrive!