Happy Winter! Winter Safety Advice Another winter: snow, cold, ice, slipping, sliding and hopefully, not falling. However we define it, winter is here! While we got off fairly easily last winter, it doesn’t look like it will be as mild this year. Being prepared for...
Ready To Go! Hurricane Preparedness Today, in an email from the White House Office of Public Engagement, I found a list of what’s being done in Florida to prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene. The government is acting prior to landfall and...
Supported Decision-Making in Michigan There are times when we get calls at Disability Network Lakeshore (DNL) asking what can be done to help children with developmental disabilities who want to be more independent. There are similar calls from adult children asking...
Emergency Preparedness Planning with a Disability If you are creating an emergency preparedness plan and you have a disability, you may want to put some thought into how it might be a challenge. For example, if you have kidney failure and rely on dialysis 3 or 4 times...
Something New at Disability Network Lakeshore Sometimes it can be difficult to find the right assistive technology (A.T.) items to meet your needs. You see something that might work out and buy it only to find that it’s not the right fit, it doesn’t do the job like...
A Special Gift For Christmas | Advanced Directive for Health Care I’m giving a special gift to my sister for Christmas this year. I made a list of things that need to be done that I know keep getting put off because she doesn’t have time, so I started with “create an...
