The Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired is seeking volunteers to help blind or visually impaired individuals remain as independent as possible in their homes.

The MetroWest Alzheimer’s Partnership is hosting an interactive program with award-winning journalist Greg O’Brien, author of "On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s," on Saturday, October 27 at the Callahan Senior Center in Framingham.

The Natick Community-Senior Center is offering a Powerful Tools for Caregivers course this fall. An information session is scheduled for September 12 at 11:30 a.m., with the six-week class series meeting on Wednesdays from 5:30-7 p.m., beginning October 3.

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.

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.

BayPath's LGBT Initiative invites all to join us for a special showing and discussion of the award-winning film "Gen Silent" at Framingham State University on Wednesday, June 13.

In our latest Caregiving Chronicles Q&A, we discuss depression and how it can affect both older adults ad their caregivers with Juanita Allen Kingsley of the Natick VNA.

The Alzheimer's Association is presenting an educational program for family caregivers called "Safety and Memory Challenges" at Heritage at Framingham Assisted Living on Thursday, June 1.

Area caregivers can receive free training to help care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia in a program presented by Hearthstone Alzheimer Care and the I’m Still Here Foundation in Acton on May 30.

The Seventh Annual Conference for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren is be held on June 6 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel (181 Boston Post Road West, Marlborough, MA).