I have never met a senior who doesn’t have a houseful of useless things. Okay, some of it they may have been using but definitely about 75% of it is not at all essential for their existence and may even pose as a threat to their health since these things are fire hazard and/or usually scattered around the house that it is easy to fall and slip on them. However, [...]

While I still discourage seniors from going out when the sun is at its brightest, which is usually around 10am-3pm, I find it startling to find that almost 75% of the American population is suffering from Vitamin D deficiency. So much for my preaching! I should have been promoting healthy sunshine instead! Just a sidenote, did you know that the countries with people whose life expectancy is average 90 years [...]

There are several reasons why many caregivers decided to just move their aging parent into their own homes instead of looking for other housing options. One of the most common factors is money. A caregiver/provider who doesn’t have much resource to go around might opt to just move a senior into their own homes and personally take care of their needs from there instead of having the senior admitted to [...]

Safety issues are surely not the ones you would like to discuss in Sunday dinners with your aging parents. You just don’t go straight on asking your parent if he or she has already decided on which assistive community to move into or if they have already installed the grab bars in their bathrooms. Understand that while it is important for you – as their concerned kid – to know, [...]

Fatigue is not a condition limited only to the young ones as it also affects seniors. In fact, it is very common for seniors to suffer from fatigue, explained and otherwise. A naturally aging body is very prone to weakness and fatigue, a condition that usually explains why seniors easily get tired when doing everyday chores such as gardening, cooking and even walking. At times, it can be frustrating for [...]

Did you know that there are many factors affecting a senior’s ability to get a good night’s sleep? And it is rarely – although it can be a factor – your age. Below are some of the things you can do to improve your sleeping habits: · Avoid blue light. It is because blue light inhibits melatonin production. Melatonin is “sleep hormone” responsible for your body’s ability to recognize its [...]

Just to familiarize our senior readers about psoriatic arthritis and how it is different from your ordinary arthritis, I am giving a short background description of psoriatic arthritis. Psoriatic arthritis is an inflammatory arthritis which means aside from your usual arthritic joint aches, there would also be swelling, pitting of nails (i.e nails separating from its bed), pain in heels and soles of the feet which makes it near impossible [...]

Have you noticed how awfully hard public transportation has become for seniors? I personally think that it requires the agility of a 12-year old which obviously I don’t have, thank you very much. The mere act of stepping off a railway platform and into a train proves to be an act worthy of the circus! I don’t know about you but lately when confronted by this dilemma, I usually find [...]

Don’t we all? I mean, would love to age gracefully? I have just been to AARP website and saw there Raquel Welch and was reminded how a 70-something woman should look like. I know, I know. I shouldn’t be comparing my mediocre looks to that of an actress, I can even hear me saying to my daughter the day she fussed about how Jessica Alba looked like after giving birth [...]

The problem with life insurances is that you can never be sure that your beneficiaries will receive them after you go. More troubling is the fact that many seniors failed to tell someone about their life insurances thus their beneficiaries not even knowing they can claim money from insurance companinsuries – some seniors don’t even remember their insurances anymore hence money down the drain. This is especially true for Alzheimer’s [...]