Master Gardners DON'T help the elderly and disabled??
sherilou_2010
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Comments (9)Hi Mel - its been awhile since your posting. How is your father doing? A few years back here in our Community Garden a bunch of town people got together and put in a raised bed with 7 plots and four barrels for gardening accessibility. This was a multi-generational project and is used by such. I am not sure about your community but if they have a Community Garden - you might go to your Town's Disability Committee and propose the idea. The reason why I am so for this is because it allows one to be social as well as to work on their favorite hobby. Otherwise I agree with the other comments posted here - a raised bed garden or garden table or containers could be made to accomodate your Dad's needs. Also maybe you have a few neighbors who would be interested in helping out with this project for a patio or even inside a sunroom. Invite them over for a BBQ and have fun. These neighbors too might also want to assist him in gardening - like a buddy system. Keep in touch with the members on the Accessible Forum for more help. Chantel Here is a link that might be useful: Harwich Community Garden...See MoreGetting Elderly Drivers Off The Road...
Comments (37)BDDT, with my dad about 4 years ago. He was far more cooperative than many of your parents have been. He had two accidents in a week plus a few others in the preceding couple of years. Mom did most of the driving until she broke her elbow. She was out of commission and he drove more resulting in the two final accidents. Mom agreed and we hired a caregiver who drove for them 5 days a week. Definitely expensive, but Dad used senior door 2 door transportation and discount taxi coupons. He agreed to a full neurological workup which after six weeks the doc INSANELY said that he was fine to drive. Mom wisely had the caregiver drive around the neighborhood with dad. She came back and said unequivocally that he was not capable. Only one more time did he attempt to drive. I was called by the cleaning lady and rushed over, just in time. I explained that he had worked very hard all his life for a comfortable retirement. Was he going to jeopardize all it? What kind of life did that elderly man have after he killed ten people at the Santa Monica Farmer's Market? After that we sold his car. He's never attempted it again. Sadly there is NO public transportation in their area of Los Angeles, but he's not physically capable now of getting on a bus unassisted. MIL had her license suspended recently. She's 90 and fully capable, but nearly hit a pedestrian who called the cops, MIL got a citation and a notice to appear for a competency hearing. She had to take another driver's test and failed. She too is complaining about the inequity. She's fiercely independent and doesn't want to rely on anyone. She's had another hearing and has to go for a full medical eval. If she passes then she has to get a learner's permit and take 6 hours of lessons. She thought that she could just send in the med form for the doc to fill out. We're a bit more removed in this situation so we're letting the DMV sort it out. Finally, my friend's FIL refused to stop driving (he had some dementia) and they put a club on his steering wheel so that he couldn't drive!...See MoreHelping a elderly friend with their computer remotely
Comments (39)@ aputernut Was that a stream-of-consciousness moment ? There's like about a 100 words there, with no punctuation, no sentence capitalization, nothing . . . How are we supposed to parse something like that ? lol Btw, the way that link was made, it only goes to ehow.com . I did take a look though . . . as you probably know, ehow.com is by no means a tech site. They have people employed to dream up things to write "how-to" articles about, a lot of it being almost copy & paste. They may be correct on some points, but it's hardly a definitive or authoritative site for tech info....See MoreHelp Selecting Gardner and Bloome Products for Containers
Comments (8)I'm not sure what they are telling you or if you got someone one the line that doesn't know, but for sure Swanson's, City Peoples, West Seattle and Magnolia carry G&B products according to their websites (and according to the Kellogg's website as local retailers). They may not carry the entire range of G&B products but they DO carry them. They are also available at selected HD's in the area. FWIW, the Blue Ribbon potting soil may have been superseded by the Eden Valley blend potting soil or just the plain old G&B potting soil. Either are perfectly acceptable substitutes for the Blue Ribbon. Alternatively, you could look for the alternate Kellogg's label - the Master Nursery brand. These are the same exact formulations as the G&B products but just marketed under a different label. They tend to be sold at more rural or suburban nurseries and garden centers, For example, they are sold at all the GC's here in Kitsap County. If you really can't find any close enough (and I can't imagine that's the case), you can consider the E.B. Stone soil products - they are very similar in composition and quality and carry a similar range of bagged products. Many of these same nurseries carry both. Another excellent (but very pricey ) alternative is Fox Farms' Ocean Forest potting soil - it is the potting soil of choice for pot growers :-)) Also carried by most of these same places....See Morenmgirl
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