TL;DR
Caring Senior Service is celebrating its 30th anniversary by launching the "Close the Gap in Senior Care" movement, with founder and CEO Jeff Salter embarking on a 9,000-mile e-bike ride across 45 cities. The movement aims to raise awareness and funds for senior care needs in the United States.
San Antonio, TX - Caring Senior Service, a national in-home, non-medical care provider committed to improving the lives of seniors, is celebrating its 30th anniversary by creating a movement to address the unmet needs faced by aging adults who live at home. The company’s founder and CEO, Jeff Salter, is riding 9,000 miles across the country on an electric bike to officially launch the “Close the Gap in Senior Care” movement to raise awareness and funds for senior care needs in the United States to help seniors safely age in place.
Bike tour kickoff
Salter’s bike tour kicked off in San Antonio, TX on April 1, 2021, with four months of cycling ahead of him to visit each of Caring Senior Service’s 45 locations, where he will spearhead efforts to start local conversations about senior care needs.
“I am so excited to be embarking on this bike journey to celebrate 30 years of Caring Senior Service and to jumpstart this important conversation that is so often overlooked in the public conversation,” Salter said. “The movement’s name - Close the Gap - is symbolic because, in cycling, riders ‘close the gap’ between themselves in order to draft off each other. They get farther and faster working as a team, so closing the gap is critical for peak performance.
That concept epitomizes what our company does and how all of us can work together - engaging communities through the Close the Gap movement - to help seniors safely and happily age in place.”
Close the gap movement
Caring Senior Service’s Close the Gap movement is a call for community leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, agencies and the public at large to help ensure seniors have the option of safely aging at home with the support they want and need. Additional findings from the survey found that: 90 percent of respondents are “very worried” or “somewhat worried” that an older loved one living alone may fall and hurt himself or herself.
68 percent of survey participants feel that “installing grab bars in the bathroom” or “installing grab bars and rails throughout the home” are the most effective measures to prevent senior falls at home.
Salter’s bike trip entails him leaving his own home, his wife and two grown sons and biking for four months across the country on an e-bike with a camping-trailer attached. Riding an e-bike illustrates the idea that people can do more with a little assistance than they can alone, just like seniors can with in-home care.
The trip will include stops at each Caring Senior Service location, with an event held at each stop to kick-off the “Close The Gap” movement and celebrate 30 years. Salter will also meet with city leaders, senior citizen activists, business members and caregivers to bring attention and engagement to senior care. By the time Salter circles back to San Antonio, TX, he will have traveled across the U.S. twice and visited 25 different states. Salter hopes to leave a lasting legacy of care by convening key stakeholders and inciting them to take actions that empower seniors to thrive at home.
McAllen, TX - April 5, 2021
Corpus Christi, TX - April 6, 2021
Victoria, TX - April 7, 2021
Lake Jackson, TX - April 7, 2021
Houston, TX - April 9, 2021
Jackson, MS - April 15, 2021
Nashville, TN - April 19, 2021
Chattanooga, TN - April 20, 2021
Atlanta GA - April 22, 2021
Wilmington, NC - April 30, 2021
Raleigh, NC - May 3, 2021
Gainsville, VA - 6, 2021
Camden, NJ - May 10, 2021
Jenkintown, PA - May 11, 2021
Hamilton Township, NJ - May 12, 2021
West Orange, NJ - May 13, 2021
Stroudsburg, PA - May 17, 2021
Canton, OH - May 24, 2021
Columbus, OH - May 25, 2021
Milwaukee, WI - June 1, 2021
Galesburg, IL - June 4, 2021
Kansas City, KS - June 8, 2021
Omaha, NE - June 11, 2021
Fremont, NE - June 11, 2021
Fort Collins, CO - June 16, 2021
Boulder, CO - June 17, 2021
Midvale, UT - June 24, 2021
Long Beach, CA - July 1, 2021
San Diego, CA - July 5, 2021
Phoenix, AZ - July 9, 2021
Tucson, AZ - July 12, 2021
El Paso, TX - July 16, 2021
Amarillo, TX - July 21, 2021
Dallas, TX - July 26, 2021
Fort Worth, TX - July 26, 2021
Cleburne, TX - July 27, 2021
Austin, TX - July 29, 2021
New Braunfels, TX - July 30, 2021
Kerrville, TX - July 31, 2021
San Antonio, TX - August 1, 2021
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This story was originally published in Franchising.com on May 12, 2021. Burnaze summarizes and links to the original reporting.
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