Sheila Goodfellow, a client care coordinator with Federal Way’s Comfort Keepers, has earned the designation of Certified Senior Advisor (CSA). Through the Society of Certified Senior Advisors, Goodfellow completed a course, covering the social, financial and health concerns of older adults. She also passed a closed book, proctored exam on the material.
CSAs are accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies. The CSA designation alone does not imply expertise in financial, health or social matters. For details, go to www.csa.us.
“Acquiring this designation has equipped me with an abundance of information and resources I can now provide my clients,” said Goodfellow, who has been with Comfort Keepers for two years.
Comfort Keepers, based in Ohio, is a non-medical home care company with more than 550 independently owned and operated offices worldwide. It aims to keep older adults in their own homes for as long as possible and offers assistance with companionship, grocery shopping, meal preparation, transportation to doctor appointments or other commitments, light housekeeping and more.
The Federal Way Comfort Keepers offers hourly (three-hour minimum) and 24-hour care in this city, Des Moines, Normandy Park, Burien, Kent, Auburn and South Renton. For Tacoma and some outlying areas, 24-hour care is available, Goodfellow said.
In the United States, seniors ages 65 and older number more than 37 million. By 2030, the U.S. Census Bureau predicts there will be about 70 million seniors (equivalent to one in five Americans).
• Specializing in auto accident and work injury care, Robert E. Buclaw III, a chiropractic physician, recently opened Buclaw Family Chiropractic at 2500 SW 336th St., Suite E. “We are credentialed with most major medical insurance carriers and Medicare,” Buclaw said.
Buclaw graduated in 1998 from Cleveland Chiropractic College (Kansas campus) summa cum laude where he also was class valedictorian and made the national dean’s list for four years. For more information, visit www.buclaw.com.
His spouse, Jenifer Buclaw, is the general business manager at Buclaw Family Chiropractic. She previously worked as an operations manager for National Safety Inc. in Kent. The couple live in Federal Way.
• Ahlberg Auna of Federal Way’s Axtax Inc. has earned the Fellows designation from the National Association of Enrolled Agents (NAEA) for completing the National Tax Practice Institute, a three-year curriculum of coursework open only to licensed tax professionals. Auna is an enrolled agent and a member of NAEA.
Enrolled agents are federally-authorized to advise and represent taxpayers before the IRS, including taxpayers who are being examined, are unable to pay or are trying to avoid or recover penalties, states an NAEA news release. For details, go to www.naea.org.
Auna is also an Accredited Tax Advisor and a member of the Accreditation Council for Accountancy and Taxation.
E-mail Federal Way business news to Debra Feammelli: dfcommunicates@mac.com.
