Life with a chronic disease or illness is not easy and it has negative impact on seniors’ quality of life. Bad news is, it tends to get worse overtime especially if the senior in question refuses to seek help from healthcare providers. According to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 7 out of 10 seniors are living with at least one chronic disease, about 5 of them are contending with [...]

While I encourage seniors to make the most out of their lives especially during retirement, it is not impossible for many seniors to still be scrambling for money or perhaps doubting if their nest egg is really enough. My take is that your nest egg can never be enough. Aside from that, you will come to a point when your “retired” days become boring, annoying and downright ridiculous – enough [...]

I seriously think seniors should be given a handbook or something of all their possible benefits and how they should go about it once they reach the tender age of 50. I mean, it’s quite hard to keep track of it all, right? I now have the suspicion that despite their knowledge of how forgetful seniors can be, they are deliberately making us forget so we miss all the fun! [...]

We encourage seniors to get off the couch and do something productive everyday – every single day! Now that you are no longer bound by work, there’s no reason for you not to get up, go out and explore. Retirement doesn’t necessarily mean staying inside your house, doing nothing. In fact, this is the right time for you to pursue long-forgotten interests and do something about your long-forgotten dreams. I [...]

My question actually is: why not? Younger ones may not fully grasp the idea of their older family members getting married but there is no reason why we seniors should not get married when it hits us. Like they say, there’s no better time than now. However, some seniors are still doubtful about getting married this late in life – ashamed even. Don’t take it personally if few handful of [...]

Nobody said that writing your own will is fun, in fact, most seniors prefer to write and be done with it and not bother to update it until last minute, if they ever get one – and sometimes they don’t, so it leaves their surviving families in a lot of confusion and potentially, heartaches. On many counts, drafting and writing your own will is a hard job. Not only it [...]

Between family obligations, your lifelong obsession, and whatever is keeping your hands off your weekend relaxation, weekend off – and plan for actually having one – sounds more and more of a privilege than a right. It should not be as a study showed that we need our weekends to choose whatever we want to do and leave “working” to weekdays. Professor Richard Ryan did a study relating psychology and [...]

A will is not something you plan, draft, finalize, get stamp and be done with it. Your will needs to get updated too every once and a while or if there is a major change in your life such as remarrying or in an event of a divorce. You reexamine important points in your will and make necessary adjustments to it. It is practically an ongoing thing and never a [...]

If there’s one thing we, seniors, avoid the most, it would be falls and slips as we all know the health implications that come with it. However, as we age, it gets a little harder to avoid falls and slips considering those several factors which might lead to a fall or a slip are the exact same things we can’t do without. I, personally, am conscious of my surroundings and [...]