Holidays are meant for endless get-togethers and parties however, in this flurry of activities, it’s quite easy to forget simple holiday etiquette. Below is a guide to practicing good manners for a merrier holiday! · When attending parties, don’t forget to confirm your attendance and how many people you are planning to take with you. Even if you are not coming, it is important to let your host know about [...]

The problem we, seniors, usually have to face during the gift giving season is finding the perfect gift for our loved-ones. Rarely will you find a person who, despite their age, still has a knack for landing the perfect gift for the right person. I personally find it hard to decide what to give to my, say, teenage grandson. Actually, the easiest age bracket to get gift for would be [...]

Holidays indeed pose another set of challenges for us caregivers! It’s hard enough to get our seniors moving everyday, what more when there’s unusual cheer in the air? The biggest challenge of all is to actually make holidays fun for both the senior and the caregiver. If you are planning to take your senior to a holiday vacation, you might want to read these handy tips so you’ll have more [...]

Safety threats can easily ruin a senior’s vacation. When vacationing, seniors are more vulnerable to theft and overall dangers of being in some place foreign. If you are thinking that staying in a hotel puts you in a lesser risk then you might want to rethink that since reports of theft occurring inside a hotel room with or without the occupants in there are quite rampant. Add to that the [...]

What I love about Easter Sundays is that it allows enjoyable, quality time for people of all ages, young, old and even those in between. It has that “Christmas morning” quality to it that makes seniors and kids wake up in anticipation. Aside from that, Easter Sundays bring back sweet, old memories of our childhood—when everything seems so easy and right. However, Easter Sundays, to make it more worthwhile, require [...]

Who says Valentine’s Day is only for the young ones? Of course, it’s also an occasion for the young-at-hearts namely, us, seniors. I am not a bit embarrassed to admit that it is one of few occasions in a year when I get all excited, and dreamy, and all swoony. You can’t really blame me, with all the things I need to attend to 24/7, it’s kind of hard to [...]

At some point in your life, you will need to do some serious cleaning around your home to clear away the mess you have accumulated over the years. This may not sound fun to you now but believe me, it will save you a lot of trips down to the emergency room of your friendly neighborhood hospital in the near future! Why? It is because the clutter you have in [...]

I strongly suggest that you seniors don’t drive around during winter, better yet, just stay at home to lessen risk that can cause you bodily harm. It is not safe outside especially for an aging body like yours. Let’s just say that winters aren’t meant for seniors so you should stay home, safe and warm. However, there will be times that it will be absolutely necessary for you to come [...]

We seniors do love to entertain! Having a group of people over for the holidays make the occasion more worthwhile and cherished however, entertaining has its own downside as well since most of the time it tends to break our piggybanks! In other words, seniors have to choose between penniless-but-with-company or with-some-money-but-alone. Well now, there are some ways to fix this dilemma and still be entertaining after holidays even you’re [...]

Now that the holidays are almost over—read: “almost” over as I am sure there are still some of you seniors still partying to the tune of “post-holiday” songs—we now need to pay attention to our holiday-abused bodies. The unfairness of it, as to what I see and feel, is that for every party you get yourself into, there would be ten times the effort to get the body right. With [...]