Pinnacle Placements & Seniors

With the arrival of fall, it’s businer at Pinnacle Senior Placements . People recharge their batteries during the summer, as we get back to the realities of life, recently Daphne Davis has seen an increase in younger sons and daughters having to help senior loved ones in their 70s: People in their 30s and 40s with full-time jobs and children are being faced with these challenges. Some families are...

How often have you felt alone in this process of caring for a senior loved one? In this hour, Daphne discusses how you're truly not alone. It's just a matter of reaching out for hope to build relationships with a team of people who have the best interests of your loved one at heart. In this segment, Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about caregiver guilt after senior living choices...

How often have you felt alone in this process of caring for a senior loved one? In this hour, Daphne discusses how you're truly not alone. It's just a matter of reaching out for hope to build relationships with a team of people who have the best interests of your loved one at heart. In this segment, Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about what goes on with families during this time...

How often have you felt alone in this process of caring for a senior loved one? In this hour, Daphne discusses how you're truly not alone. It's just a matter of reaching out for hope to build relationships with a team of people who have the best interests of your loved one at heart. In this segment, Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about how it works when Daphne and Pinnacle is inv...

How often have you felt alone in this process of caring for a senior loved one? In this hour, Daphne discusses how you're truly not alone. It's just a matter of reaching out for hope to build relationships with a team of people who have the best interests of your loved one at heart. You need to feel comfortable asking any question. Pinnacle can help with senior living decisions. While some choices...

Now that our parents have moved, how do we relax together and how do we stay connected? Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements explains that no conflict is worth coming apart at the seams with your family, and this discussion focuses on family healing, advocacy and communication. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Before our parents have moved, the family still needs to come together to make decisions regarding the move. Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about many considerations families don't think through. It can be overwhelming to go from a quiet family home to a community with 80 other residents. Generally if someone can advocate for themselves, and if they have good safety awareness and...

This hour is about healing discourse in families. In this segment, Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements focuses on the healing of siblings. A nearly universal theme is the perception of what a parent can and can't do, and where they need help. Another common one is cognition issues: is there short-term memory loss with your parents? Evaluating cognition challenges within a family can be chal...

As families come together again, there's a lot of new strife, anxiety, mistrust of information, and trouble coping with change. Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements explains how each family has a unique story, dynamics and different perspectives. Sometimes there's discord when making decisions about senior loved ones and the transition to senior living. Even in a family with lots of informat...

In this hour, Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about how to reduce stress, embrace summer and get back out into the world, with those you haven't seen in a long time. This segment focuses simpler big adventures such as having a barbecue in the back yard, or visiting a park or arboretum, or visiting grand children. Remember that we've not been active for 15 months, and our bodies ca...

In this hour, Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about how to embrace summer after our seniors have been isolated for 15 months. This segment focuses on one option, a longer trip such a family vacation, or perhaps a reunion or a drive or flight to visit a family member in a nearby state. Daphne provides advice on how to help your senior loved ones be less stressful during the journey...

In this hour, Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about how to reduce stress, embrace summer and get back out into the world, with those you haven't seen in a long time. In this segment, Daphne focuses on advice to help your mom or dad transition if they haven't been out during the pandemic. Daphne gives advice and tips even with the logistical functions of simple things, like getting...

In this hour, Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about how to reduce stress, embrace summer and come out of the shadows of the pandemic, and how to do that with senior loved ones. This segment focuses on a reminder that even if you're just picking up your mom with a car, prepare for things to take longer. Take time to chat with them and think about things that might be different in t...

In this hour, Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about how to reduce stress, embrace summer and come out of the shadows of the pandemic, especially in the beautiful scenery of the Pacific Northwest, and how to do that with our senior loved ones. Though conditions vary by state, many want to just move forward, after discovering our true values and how important our family is. Be true...

Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about helping families every day to go through the transitions process. How do you prepare yourself as children and as the person moving during the actual physical changes? There are emotional changes, physical responsibilities that are no longer yours. She talks about how to shift your perspective to having a caretaker be your eyes and ears for you...

Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about the logistics of a move from a house to a senior living situation, as well as the medical issues and state requirements. You're downsizing, selling your home, you need delineated piles for downsizing, and lots of people get overwhelmed with it all. It's a universal issue, it's normal. There are people to help with those things. See omnystudio....

Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about how to prepare for transition time, the early stages. Moves don't often happen right away, but it's important to be prepared. Pinnacle helps facilitate conversations about change. Change is very difficult for some people, but someday you're not going to be able to keep up the yard, or go up and down stairs. Don't make this topic the elephant i...

Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about new transitions as things are opening up from the pandemic. A lot of families are thinking about how to being the transition from living at home to a senior living situation. Take this one step at a time. Have these conversations sooner than later, before there's an emergency, is commendable, as it can take six months to a couple of years of c...

Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements talks about how everyone needs the confidence to speak their mind from a place of kindness, but as families begin to face these sorts of challenges, the parent/child relationship often gets in the way. For instance, the child wants their parent to continue making decisions, while at the same time the parent may have reached a stage in their life where the...

Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements discusses what is involved when you face decisions regarding care for your senior loved ones when they live in a different state than you do.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this two-part show, Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements discusses how to move forward with our senior loved ones during the COVID-19 reality. In this segment, Davis tells a story that started 2 1/2 years ago about senior care. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this two-part show, Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements discusses how to navigate senior care options with the reality of the pandemic as of May 2021. While things are changing, no matter what your decisions are — to have a COVID shot or not, to be in senior housing or not — there are options for your senior loved ones. We're still changing from phase to phase in the state of Washington,...

In this three-part show, Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements provides some tools and tips of the trade for family caregivers. One thing that's key is for the caregiver to reach out to others whenever they're feeling weary. And for other family remembers, remember that you're not walking in the shoes of the caregiver. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this three-part show, Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements provides some tools and tips of the trade for family caregivers. One thing that's key is for the caregiver to reach out to others whenever they're feeling weary. And for other family remembers, remember that you're not walking in the shoes of the caregiver. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this three-part show, Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements provides some tools and tips of the trade for family caregivers. One thing that's key is for the caregiver to reach out to others whenever they're feeling weary. And for other family remembers, remember that you're not walking in the shoes of the caregiver. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.