Civic Ventures' Encore Profiles Elder Care Expo Founder

[25 February 2008 - Encore] ELDER CARE ANGUISH: Trying Experience Turns Into Second Career ... Frustration with patching together care for her aging mother prompted one baby boomer to start a second job bringing together elder-care resources in one venue. Julie Groshens, 52, of St. Paul, Minn., was bewildered when the elaborate support system she helped set up for her elderly mother failed. Although Groshens has 10 siblings to help as caretakers and a doctor, lawyer and geriatric social worker in the family, her mother broke her hip three times, had to move several times, suffered medical problems and experienced sudden memory loss. More