Archive for the ‘SENIOR COMMUNITIES & HOME CARE’

  • Critical Retirement Advice for Seniors
    Retirement PlanningBy Janet Shapan: The most recognizable fact of becoming a senior citizen is realizing our bodies just won’t perform they way they did in the past. Health conditions that have never surfaced in our lives begin to emerge in our 50s and demand all kinds of monitoring and management. As our growing list of needs and services increase, the good retirement ...
    May 14th, 2010 at 09:05 pm
  • Senior Health: Is Hospice Care Right For You or a Loved One?
    Hospice Care By Jan Shapan : There will likely come a time in your life that either yourself or a loved one will be forced to deal with a terminal illness. The first response, of course, is to fight it and try to fix the problem. And we should pursue all avenues of healing. However, intuitively there comes a time when the quality of life becomes more important than the ...
    April 27th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
  • Retirement Communities: Critical Questions You Should Ask Before You Buy
    Purchasing A Home in A Retirement Community By Karl Edmunds :: Too many seniors regret rushing into their first purchase in a retirement community. Some retirement communities are staffed with highly effective sales people whose stated objective is to get a decision or financial deposit quickly, if not on the first visit. And they know just the buttons to push to achieve ...
    March 13th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
  • Census Scams Targeting Seniors Are Increasing…Don’t Get Caught
    2010 Census by Karl Edmunds :: Everyone should expect to begin seeing census forms through the mail in March seeking the answers to 10 short questions. But seniors must be prepared for a variety of scams attempting to collect private information. Separating the approved census takers from the scammers is the task. If you receive the census questions in the mail and don’t ...
    March 8th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
  • The Senior Retirement Dilemma…Now What?
    Senior Retirement Planning by Karl Edmunds :: For many seniors, the door to retirement is not all it is cracked up to be. Some have lots of time but no money and can’t figure out what to do. Others have money but can’t get out of the work mode and claim no time to relax and look at alternative activities. What drives most of the uncertainty is the unrelenting fear ...
    March 8th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
  • Top 10 Safety Products for Seniors
    Top 10 Safety Products for Seniors by Janet Shapan Safety devices for Seniors can help preserve their independence. The best safety products can also help seniors steer clear of home dangers considered the most dangerous by the Home Safety Council such as falls, poisoning, and fires and burns. Senior retirement trends presents to our readers recommended home-safety ...
    March 3rd, 2010 at 02:03 pm
  • When is In Home Health Care Necessary? Be Prepared to Make the Right Decisions
    Senior Home Health by Diane Carbo :: In home care for your aging parents can decrease stress and give you peace of mind. Providing care for the elderly in the home also can be very stressful and sometimes have disastrous results. That is why choosing the right in home health care agency is important. Many individuals are surprised to find that Medicare does not cover ...
    March 3rd, 2010 at 09:03 am
  • Dementia Is Not Mental Illness
    Dementia CareAs a caregiver of people with dementia, I just hate to hear people applying the language of psychiatry to dementia. It simply serves to create barriers to relationship and understanding. It doesn’t help at all. Instead it encourages family members, who may well not understand the differences, to think of their Mom or Dad or Grandpa as being mentally ...
    March 3rd, 2010 at 01:03 am
  • Power Lift Chairs and Medicare for Seniors – What You Need to Know
    Powerlift Chairs for Seniors by Chris A West :: Did you know that millions of Americans suffer from limited mobility? Simple everyday tasks become incredibly difficult: lifting items, walking up the stairs, even getting up out of a chair can become an exhausting task. For those people, power lift chairs are a godsend. However, power liftchairs aren’t cheap – ...
    March 3rd, 2010 at 01:03 am
  • Talking With Elderly Parents – 5 Ways to Open the Lines of Communication
    Senior Care Caring for your elderly parents can be a challenging task. As the body gets older, it falls victim to a number of health problems, which can be difficult for us to cope with. Seniors often become depressed and upset over small things because their bodies are unable to keep up with their minds. Other seniors will have mental health problems, which takes its ...
    March 3rd, 2010 at 01:03 am
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