Holidays are always a hurdle for elderly diabetics since this is a season where sweet-sugary stuff can be found in every corner of the world. In fact, keeping a sugar-free diet during holidays is quite hard considering the holiday treats that are being sent to you in observance of the yuletide season. Just one look at that calendar of yours and you’ll see that these past few days were clearly [...]

So it’s the time of the year when you finally sit down and look back to what have you’s as we end the year 2010. Have you been productive? Were you able to make your year worthwhile or perhaps more challenging to live in? Or better yet, did you manage to do all those tasks you were putting off year after year? If yes, then it’s time for new resolutions! [...]

Gift giving is a tradition made especially for the holidays. Without it, I don’t think it will ever get to be so much fun particularly for kids and kids-at-heart. However, gift giving can burn a hole in your pocket too and sadly, most gifts we give end up in attics, forgotten and collecting dust. Of course, this is not what we have in mind when we bought these gifts and [...]

Let’s admit it, more and more boomers are joining the geek world and they’re cool with that! Why? It’s because working on the computer, at the convenience of your own home, whenever you want, sure beats going to the office and tackling office work 9-5, considering the aches and pains of an aging body must be giving you these days! So it’s settled, seniors are definitely moving in for the [...]

During holiday season, it is very common for seniors to be visiting houses—of friends or families or both. During these times too, you may find yourself as the visitor today and the host tomorrow. No matter what role you play, you’re bound to be in a roomful of people whom you have to get along with for a day or two. These people may like you but there’s no guarantee [...]

I don’t know about you but I find holidays more romantic than a valentine’s day. Maybe it’s the duration of the occasion, holidays being a somewhat weeklong event while Valentine ’s Day is just a one-day—overnight even—stint. Or perhaps it’s the weather, holidays being colder—so much more lovely to get curled up with someone you love while nursing a cup of hot cocoa. Either way, holidays are the perfect occasion [...]

Hunting for the perfect gift for your special grandkid may not be that easy especially if you happen to have a kid that doesn’t drop clues or perhaps he or she is blessed with parents who just give just about everything they asked for. Make that doubly hard if you are not that “connected” with your grandchild, he or she being someone who live far from where you are. As [...]

Hormone therapy isn’t only for aging women but for senior men too, although they may or may not need one during their lifetime. However, hormone therapy became popular around senior women than it has become for men due to the fact that it helped tremendously in alleviating symptoms of menopausal. Nowadays, and after its side effects have been found, healthcare professionals are advising against it and if hormone therapy is [...]

Holidays should not always mean you burn your wallet off gifts and enter the new year almost penniless! Like what I always say, with little resourcefulness and a lot of guts, we seniors can still earn while enjoying retirement. Today, we’re going to talk about holiday jobs that are perfect for seniors and retirees: •    Are you detail oriented and have no problem standing for hours? Do you have a [...]

To avoid breaking bones and suffering from its repercussions, aging bodies like ours should go an extra mile in preventing falls that will surely bring about injuries. It’s not easy, yes, considering that we might have to give up our carefree ways and act/move more consciously now but just think of why you’re doing this and what you’re saving yourself from then it might be enough to convince you that [...]