Aging Prepared is a group of free resources designed to help older adults and their families prepare to age at home.
Aging Prepared offers essential information and actionable steps you can take now.
How Aging Prepared Works
Aging Prepared is anchored around guided workshops adaptable to various settings, including one-on-one consultations, small group gatherings, or larger presentations and webinars. During our workshops, Educators provide participants with valuable insights about aging at home versus relocating to a senior living community.
We also explore the events that may lead to needing more care support, offering guidance on how to be prepared for these events and how to manage them effectively. Finally, we discuss potential first steps participants can take to ensure they feel prepared and confident about their ability to age at home.
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The Aging Prepared Model is the proprietary model of employing reflection, education, and action to reduce the anxiety of senior care planning. This model includes the “Where will I live?” “Who will care for me?” and “What can I do now?” process of preparedness.
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Aging Prepared Workshops are free, interactive, online, or in-person sessions aimed at helping older adults identify their preferences and learn about care options for living and support. The workshops leverage our proprietary workbook containing key insights about care as you age.
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Aging Prepared Webinars are FREE online presentations aimed at helping seniors learn about care options for living and support.
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Aging Prepared Sessions are FREE 1:1 consultation sessions where professionals from Commonwise sit down with families and discuss options, help plan, and answer individual questions.
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The Aging Prepared Workbook is a FREE standalone interactive resource aimed at helping seniors identify their preferences and learn about care options for living and support.
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The ReadyCare Membership is a proactive service for older adults who want to take an actionable step to aging at home.
A Commonwise RN Care Manager assesses your home and potential care needs and creates a provisional care plan with check-ins every 90 days until you need care.
The Aging Prepared Workbook
You don’t have to just wait-and-see when it comes to putting together a plan for your future care needs.
The Aging Prepared Workbook is your stress-free guide to exploring your personal why and learning about your options for where and who will take of you. For a more in-depth experience, attend a Aging Prepared workshop, webinar, or session, or download the free interactive workbook today to start planning on your own!
The Pre-Work: Reflecting on Your Why
Starting to explore options for your future is a lot easier when you know you’re rooted in your personal goals and values. This free, interactive resource is designed to help you explore your preferences and priorities as an integral first step to planning for care in your future.
Your Care Plan
A free downloadable resource where you can formalize your preferences, write out contingency plans, and centralize important information regarding how you’d like to be cared for in the future.
Meet our Educators
David Wilson, Certified Senior Advisor
In the last decade of his successful 35-year teaching career, David found himself becoming more and more involved with the care of his own aging parents.
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The compassionate care he gave to his parents felt like a natural extension of the care he had been giving to his classroom students through the years. In fact, he felt so drawn to the world of personal home care that he decided to switch careers. After receiving his initial training and experience with Commonwise Home Care, he moved into private practice and returned to school to become a Certified Nursing Aide and a Certified Senior Advisor. When Commonwise approached him about becoming one of its Community Educators, the idea felt like the perfect melding of his life-long passions for education and for helping people.
Jeffrey Grossman, Founder
Inspired by his mother’s battle with cancer and his father's work as a hospice medical director, Jeffrey graduated law school with hopes to honor his personal ties to caregiving.
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After working closely with other home care services, however, Jeffrey quickly realized the system rarely bred quality. Instead, care services prioritized profit at the cost of caregivers, clients, and their loved ones, amplifying the stress and uncertainty of those in vulnerable situations.
Jeffrey founded Commonwise as an antidote to chronic industry shortcomings. He worked to build an infrastructure built upon more than good intentions—one that didn’t just dispatch caregivers, but hired them meticulously, trained them thoughtfully, and supported them robustly. He created a structure in which caregivers aren’t just aides, but warm hosts, assisting clients in their homes with dedication and grace.In his free time, Jeffrey enjoys hiking, spending time with his two kids, wife and dog, Gidget.
Barbara Franklin
Barbara Franklin has been immersed in the world of senior services for over 33 years! She retired as the Owner of a Charleston-based firm specializing in long term care planning and financing.
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She was a Founder of the Lowcountry Senior Network and along with her husband, Paul, initiated the SC Aging in Place Coalition.
Barbara has seen long term care up close and personal with her father who had Alzheimer’s disease and needed various degrees of care for over ten years. She is currently the caregiver for her 99-year-old mother.
Barbara is anxious to share her knowledge about the resources, options and considerations that come into play with the planning process for aging in place – at home or in a community.
Barbara is a native of Pittsburgh, PA and a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. She and her husband reside in downtown Charleston.
Our Why:
The Aging Prepared Story
With over a decade of experience in non-medical in-home care at Commonwise Home Care, we've seen many families realize that they need personal care, and haven't planned for it. While many people have made legal, financial, and healthcare preparations, planning for personal care needs often remains unaddressed until it becomes urgent.
Our Aging Prepared Workshop, workbook, and planning model aim to fill this critical gap. Aging Prepared focuses on essential but less-understood aspects of aging, such as where to age and which care systems are there to help. Aging Prepared provides targeted insights and tools to help you and your loved ones make informed decisions, reducing stress and uncertainty about the future.
Thank you for allowing us to support you in this crucial part of your planning. We look forward to guiding you through these important considerations.
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