Vicky lost her mother a few months ago and while that was difficult, the real hardship is just now really hitting ---- that's trying to care for her disabled father when she lives four hours away. With her dad unable to speak due to a stroke, the phone doesn't do her much good. That's why she began the tenacious search for "what's out there." She said, "I just knew there had to be some kind of technology that would help me stay in touch with Dad. So I searched on the Internet and found Tender Tidings Seniors, a senior monitoring service that is reasonably priced that will help me keep my dad in his own home rather than putting him in a nursing home."

Tender Tidings Seniors works with remote video monitoring to keep families connected. The adult child signs up at www.TenderTidingsSeniors.com and orders the high-quality internet camera to install in the elderly parent's home. Then the caregiving child can monitor her father or mother by watching streaming video on her computer --- no matter how far away she lives.

The wireless "Granny Cam" can be placed in any room of the home, and the caregiver can assign accounts to siblings who would also like to stay connected to the aging parent. She can also choose "Video with Sound" if she wants to hear what's going on in the home.

Vicky spends a good deal of her time arranging for outside caregivers to come to her father's home, but she's never sure if they come or not. With the senior monitoring system, she can check at their designated times to see if they've arrived or not. Vicky says the granny cam is the kind of technology that will make her life easier and will give her dad a better quality of life by allowing him more time at home.

Technology can work for us as we deal with the aging process. A senior monitoring system using a remote video stream is one answer.