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Welcome to Caregiving MetroWest and the Caregiving Chronicles blog. Check out this post to find out about all this website has to offer and what to expect from this blog.

November is National Family Caregivers Month, and there’s no better time to recognize and celebrate all that the millions of caregivers do every day for their loved ones.

The Veterans Affairs Caregiver Support Line is offering live meditation activities every Wednesday during National Family Caregivers Month.

Caregiving MetroWest expresses our gratitude to EMC’s Caregivers Employee Circle, which has presented us with a generous donation to help us continue to provide needed information, resources and support to family caregivers in MetroWest and beyond.

Caregiving MetroWest was recently honored by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, winning second place nationally in the Aging Innovations category for the development of the CaregivingMetroWest.org website.

On Thursday, Governor Charlie Baker signed into law a spending bill that included $3.78 million for home care services for Massachusetts seniors. Those funds should end the wait list for home care services that had been implemented on September 1.

BayPath Elder Services, Inc. and Avidia Bank have announced a new three-year partnership to help us continue to deliver needed information, resources and support to family caregivers throughout MetroWest.

We apologize for the lack of new content on this blog for the last few weeks. We have been undergoing some personnel changes in our Caregiving Department and we needed a little time to get everyone up to speed on all of new roles and duties. But we are eager to introduce Nina Rosenberg as our new Caregiver Specialist and new caretaker of this blog, and we are confident you will find her future posts informative and insightful.

Hello, everyone! My name is Nina Rosenberg and I’m the new Caregiver Specialist for BayPath Elder Services, and I’ll be managing these posts.