As owner of the NW/SW; Lake Oswego franchise of Home Instead Senior Care, Suzanne Roberts has worked with thousands of adult children and their parents. Her Caregiving staff provide non-medical, in-home care for the elderly. She recognizes the stress and overwhelm in the children of her clients as feelings she experienced herself when caring for her aging parents.When Suzanne discovered Home Instead Senior Care, she assessed her degree in Human Services and her career skills in medical staff recruiting, counseling, intervention, and employee assistance -- and knew everything she had ever learned would be utilized as she pursued this new direction for her life. Today, Suzanne says, "If I won the lottery, I would do exactly what I'm doing now -- except I'd pay my caregivers more!"
Suzanne's background in radio, television, and theater gives her the communication skills to teach, lecture, and "schmooze." She is both motivator and cheerleader for the elderly and their families. She enjoys a busy schedule of speaking engagements. A skilled extemporaneous speaker, Suzanne is the perfect talk show guest.
Suzanne lives in Portland with her husband, Bud Roberts, an Supervising Engineer of Parsons and Brinkenhauf Engineering, who gets his "on stage time" as an International Seniors Gold Medal Barbershop Quartet bass. They share a blended family of eight adult children and nine grandchildren.
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In the four years since the original date of publication, Suzanne has become the emerging expert in her field. She has addressed regional and state conventions of the Care Management Association, Guardian and Conservators Association and Oregon Healthcare Association and has accepted speaking events outside the Pacific Northwest. She is a guest instructor at the School of Geriatrics' at Portland State University and Marylhurst University. Her speaking schedule has grown from local one hour presentations to five day trips around the country which include presenting 3 CEU Workshops for Social Workers, Speaking events for her fellow Home Instead Senior Care franchises, book signing events as well as guest radio and television appearances.