Laurette Klier The Founder of NANA'S Books

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Education, Health & Fitness

5.0 • 88 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome the founder of NANA'S Books, Laurette Klier as guest to the show.

About Laurette:

As the founder of NANA'S BOOKS, Laurette Klier brings a wealth of experience and expertise to elder care and compassionate communication. With a lifelong commitment to teaching and caregiving, Laurette holds undergraduate and master's degrees in speech communications and education from Boston College.

A certified dementia practitioner and cognitive stimulation therapist, Laurette is dedicated to enhancing the lives of elders through innovative techniques and purposeful resources. An Aetna fellow and teacher consultant for the National Writing Project, Laurette blends academic knowledge with hands-on caregiving experience. Her inspiring perspective on re-imagining the culture of engagement goes beyond cognitive stimulation, to soul and spirit-tending, connecting care partners in all phases of life.

About NANA'S Books:

NANA’S BOOKS® is a treasury of nostalgic companion books. Mindfully designed to support older adults living with brain changes and their communities of care, we honor the individual through dignified reading and compassionate sharing. NANA’S BOOKS pair vintage literature and art with sensitivity and intention to elicit fond reminiscence and eased conversation.

Grounded in faith and identity, our print and voice-enabled digital libraries affirm personhood and soothe the spirit. NANA’S BOOKS are for soul-tending.

Our adaptive formats, hyper legible fonts and considerate layouts make visiting comfortable by enabling readers to savor books and good company once again.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions
0:06.7	on important age-related matters and topics. Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services,
0:13.3	the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local.
0:23.6	Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters.
0:26.1	If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today.
0:31.3	We try and make each episode here at All Home Care Matters, something that will hopefully matter to you.
0:36.8	Today, we are honored to welcome Lorette Clear, the founder of Nana's books.
0:42.7	Welcome, Lorette.
0:43.6	How are you?
0:44.6	I'm well, thanks, Lance.
0:45.8	Thank you for having me.
0:46.9	Happy to be here.
0:48.0	Our pleasure, our pleasure.
0:49.6	So Lorette, I introduced you as the founder of Nana's books, and there may be a viewer or listener right now who's not familiar with Nana's books, but we highly recommend they become familiar because they are so instrumental in helping loved ones.
1:03.9	And they're just so many varieties and different, you know, subjects and just they're incredible.
1:09.9	They really are.
1:10.5	But I'm going to let you tell us
1:12.1	why they're incredible and what Nana's books are. Thank you so much. Honestly, the books are
1:20.6	meant for families and for clinicians and communities of care. And they really sprang from the need that I found by
1:31.5	accident. I was helping care for my mother-in-law who had Louis body dementia, lived with Louis
1:36.3	body, and was living in memory care at the end. And leading up to that, she was always a very
1:43.3	avid reader. And that no longer was anything she could access.
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