COVID-19 and What It Means To Older Adults Last week the COVID-19 virus became a pandemic, then on Friday, The President announced we are in the midst of a National Emergency. Before COVID-19 was listed as a pandemic or put us into a National Emergency, we did not think too much about the virus. [...]
What Is Caregiver Burnout? When doing some research about senior topics and trends we came across something we very rarely talk about. We spend so much time talking about seniors that we never touched on the topic of caregivers. We are hearing a lot of buzz about caregivers and the care that they are [...]
Why DSCC Needs Volunteers DuPage Senior Citizens Council has a strong message and rich culture within DuPage County. We provide 4,700 seniors with services that are essential to their everyday lives. You may ask, how do they serve that many people? The answer is simple volunteers! Our volunteers make all aspects of our organization [...]
Have You Kept Your New Year's Resolutions? About 30 days ago, all us of started a new year and many of us made resolutions to better ourselves. We may have made resolutions to be healthier, save money, or become a better person. Well now that January is over, we may be finding ourselves starting [...]
Chicken Soup for the Senior Soul—and then some! Nothing beats the chilliest of Chicago nights than warming up to a cozy bowl of bubbling, soothing soup. Even if it’s not cold outside, but when you’re fighting a cold, or you’re just simply craving a hearty, comforting meal: Welcome to soup season! As you prepare [...]
Bridge Jobs and Retirement Happy New Year everyone! This year may be the year you start thinking about retirement, which is great! But maybe you aren’t quite ready to throw in the towel yet. Since you are thinking of slowing down and retiring maybe it is time to consider a bridge job. You may [...]
Why We Love Our Volunteers We are just coming off a Volunteer Celebration high that we just had at the end of July. For those who do not know this, we have a volunteer celebration every year to honor our volunteers and give them a special thank you for all of their hard work [...]
Why Children Should Interact with Seniors School is out for the summer which means that ever dreaded ‘I am bored’ is about to starting ringing throughout households nationwide from millions of kids. There are thousands of opportunities for children to stay active this summer, everything from summer camps to pool parties. For some reason [...]
Volunteering Is More Than Just Staying Busy With Volunteer Appreciation Month (April) being months behind us, we took a moment to look back on our volunteers and realized how much they mean to us. We always ask them why they love volunteering and without hesitation we get “It feels great to give back” or [...]
