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November is National Family Caregivers Month and as we bear down on Thanksgiving 2025, Ann's Guardian Angels, Inc. is thankful for all those joined together in the hard work of caregiving. We hope you experience a restful Thanksgiving this week because you deserve it. We are also thankful for Governor Maura Healy of Massachusetts for designating the week of November 17-22 as Home Care and Hospice Appreciation Week, in recognition of those who provide dignified, compassionate care within the home. We are thrilled to highlight these 2 official dates of recognition because they honor those who make tough sacrifices in caring for loved ones. If you are wondering how to leverage and find support for your unpaid caregiving experience, please check out Archangels : discover your "intensity score," grab a badge, and learn about resources that could be available for you, through a unique partnership with Boston Senior Home Care . Alexandra Drane, Co-Founder and CEO, has her finger on the pulse of what current caregivers are experiencing and rallies quite a community of support for caregiving from every direction. Take time to glean valuable resources her incredible work provides.  To honor caregivers here at AGA, we are looking forward to featuring Caregiver Spotlights on our social media platforms soon and will start by introducing you to Siobhan Raftery-Morey. Siobhan has been with us for a year and a half and hails from Ireland. It will be a real treat to share her story, as well as tips and insights into the business of caregiving so stay tuned to our YouTube, Facebook and Instagram posts. We also encourage you to give back, as you are able, this Thanksgiving. This year, AGA has chosen the organization, God's Love We Deliver, after watching a segment on the ABC World News . Just a $20 contribution goes a long way and brings much needed love to those in need.  Ann's Guardian Angels wishes you and your families a very Happy Thanksgiving, and we sincerely thank all of our caregivers, clients and followers too. If you happen to have wifi/computer/tv screen, below are some fun links from our home to yours to include in your own Thanksgiving background. Peace! Thanksgiving Jazz A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Fireplace Music on Pandora: Thanksgiving Dinner Thanksgiving Activities for Seniors Games For Seniors To Play with Family Walt Whitman Poem: Thanks In Old Age

“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards." Steve Jobs In the frigid cold days of a Canadian winter, an 81-year old lady shuffled around her small apartment in Montreal. She was weak, frail, alone, and comforted only by her pet poodle. The lower Westmount rooming house where she lived was quickly catching on to her neglected affairs. With no family to attend to her, she had become incontinent, unable to perform basic hygiene...and the stench carried into the common areas. The tenants complained. The house manager ordered her to leave. The woman was distraught.  Meanwhile, a 20-year old Dawson College student down the hallway had been bedridden with an illness for 6 weeks and recovering. Weak and frail herself, she heard of the elderly lady's plight and reached out to help. Within a matter of weeks, the old woman was bathed and cleaned. Her apartment was tidied up and organized, and against great odds, the student was able to locate another place to live for her. Mustering her own newfound strength in recovery, the student packed up the elderly lady's apartment, moved her into her new home, unpacked her things and assisted her with settling into her new place...  Ann Neale, Owner and Founder of Ann's Guardian Angels, Inc , is fond of a Steve Jobs quote that says, " You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future." Started in 2007, Ann's Guardian Angels  provides caregivers for elderly and children throughout Cape Cod, Boston and Southeastern MA as well as Rhode Island. Hundreds of seniors have been lovingly assisted in their homes with compassion and dignity, earning Ann’s Guardian Angels a reputation of tailored service that connects its dots back to 1981 in that small rooming house in Montreal. Ann was an intern with Ville Marie Social Services and a social work student at Dawson College, when she heard news of the old woman's condition. You might think the elderly 81-year old's story ended with her new place to live but within 2 days, she had been ordered to leave yet again. Ann did not give up. She went back and repeated the move all over again. She found another place for the elderly lady to live, packed her up and moved her for the second time. Then she stayed a constant in the woman's life with regular visits. That's Ann Neale.  Stories of sacrifice behind the mission of caregiving are common and easily overlooked but for Ann, serving others is not just a business, it's a calling.  If you have a loved one in need, call Ann at (508) 782-8682. Ann's Guardian Angels: Compassionate Caregiving from the Heart. We would love to meet your loved ones wherever they call home. Follow us on social media too!   Subscribe and Like us on  Facebook , Instagram , YouTube . You can visit us behind the scenes and receive valuable resources in the intense business of caregiving. Whether you are caring for your own loved ones or working as a professional, we would love to help you.  * Story above retold from Ann Neale and article from The Montreal Gazette, January 19, 1981.  Click here for orignal newspaper story. Ann's Guardian Angels Caregiving CNA Elderly Care Home Health Seniors

Ann's Guardian Angels, Inc. (AGA) has officially entered the social media world and we hope you'll check us out on Facebook , Instagram and YouTube . In the last month or so, we have posted announcements about our updated website,  job opportunities on Indeed, partnership with Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts as well as short videos about who we are. While we are exploring this virtual space we recognize that many of our clients might not be online. Still, we are glad to be here and look forward to creating a face to the world and content that connects and informs. Ann's Guardian Angels is a truly blessed caregiving business; we are a small boutique success story--our referrals are our bread and butter, in fact --and yet as we open our doors to the world wide web, to YOU , we invite you to come in and make yourself comfortable. We are caregivers, after all. Grab a cup of coffee, take a seat on the sofa and let's listen, watch, comment and share.  Most importantly, we hope you start by watching the video about Ann Neale , the heart and soul behind AGA. If you book an in-home assessment , Ann is likely the one to meet you and your family. A Canadian by birth, Ann is salt of the earth and you'll soon discover, the real angel at the helm. However, as we are navigating this online space, we confess that we have fallen into the rabbit hole of scrolling through endless reels on Instagram and YouTube.  Algorithms have been created for us now and the content that is curated and shuffled past our eyes often showcases interesting stories. If you are a parent with kids, you know all about these algorithms and the affect it has on our kids. It can make you feel some kind of way.  Yet, there is one content creator we wanted to highlight for the purpose of this blog. It struck me that people like this are angels among us that need heralding and the light they lend to our seniors.  His name is Zebulun Day and he's growing in his "following," as they call it for becoming popular online. For good reason. From what I can tell, like Ann, Zebulun is a small business owner as well who stays grounded/connected in his community in many heart-warming ways. He sparks conversation with the locals everywhere he goes, shares words of wisdom, loud and proud about his love for donuts, and known for phrases like 'What Are We Doing?!" and "Crap You Should Know!" But what makes Zeb special is he accepts donations of cardigans, and shares them with seniors at a local nursing home (To donate a cardigan, mail to: PO Box 1003, Haverhill, MA 01831). His brand of charm, wit and humor is a refreshing breeze to those he visits as he uplifts their spirits.  But this past week, Zeb shared a sad reality of those living in nursing homes. Sitting in his car, he shared the news that 4 of his nursing home friends had passed away that week. If you get a moment, please listen to his reel here .  "This is the grand finale of their lives....and it is ill-attended."  He charged each of us to visit a nursing home and consider those who are often left behind and forgotten in the most beautifully golden era of their lives. It was a sobering post and reminder to us that elderly are the wisdom-keepers of society, worthy of deference and respect. Much like Zeb, Ann, at 20 years old, was reaching out to her elderly neighbors, going above and beyond to care for them in the most vital ways. We hope you'll check out that article below. At AGA, we are all about caregiving with compassion and while we may offer a service, it's in people like Zeb we find encouragement and inspiration—we hope you like and "follow" people like this online. The value they offer knows no price. As always, we hope guardian angels find their way to your lives and if you need some help for your own loved ones, call Ann's Guardian Angels, Inc. at 508 782 8682 or visit our website to learn more. And don't forget where our new digs are! We’ll leave the light on for ya.