A senior cannot just move and be done with it. It needs an awful lot of planning. If you are a caregiver, you might want to consider that as well when convincing a senior to move. For a senior, it is a big event, a big turn-around in their life so don’t ever think that it would be taken lightly. It also means downsizing – losing some of their most [...]

Funny that I am doing this post because a good – and very old – friend has just asked me if I could “declutter” her home as she cannot do it anymore – for sentimental reasons and physical ones too. Of course it is okay with me as she is a dear friend and I’ve been trying to tell her a dozen times already that her home needs some clearing [...]

So there still exists a battle of senior independence against their need for assistance. A senior won’t readily accept that he or she is in need of assistance whether the reasons are quite obvious. If caregivers would have it their way, the decision would be unanimous; it’s the nursing home or the highway! But seniors see nursing homes as stripping them off of their dignity and your not being able [...]

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, [...]

Being in an institution can be hard for both the elderly and their visitors. Some family members openly admit that the experience can be traumatic and would prefer not to do it again if not for their beloved seniors. Moving into an assisted facility means “change” and for most seniors, it is unwelcome since most of them – if not all – are not really ready for it yet and [...]

Your home becomes a big deal right after you hit your retirement age, there’s no doubt about it. You even have to plan ahead, consider several housing options and decide – even pay—on what you want even before the need arises. That’s the weird part of it, just when you finally found your own, true home – a place where you truly belong — you’ll be forced to look for [...]

Whether you are downgrading or perhaps just plain, old tired of your house and your neighborhood and would like some change, then it is best to look for a retirement home—that is if you are already a senior! Retirement homes are your best choice if you ever thought of moving or changing your address. Why? It is because retirement homes are usually fitted and designed with senior needs in mind. [...]

I always say that in aging, it is best to be prepared than just cross the bridge when you get there. The problem with “crossing the bridge when you get there” is that there might be no bridge to cross at all, meaning it may be too late for you to make a decision at all and of course, we don’t want that to happen. If you ask me to [...]

If living independently is a dream come true among seniors then you might have heard of the horrors that come with multigenerational families as well. Multigenerational families or household are homes which house a family belonging to at least three generations long. There should be the grandparents, the parents, kids and sometimes even the “kids of the kids” so you can just imagine how chaotic that may be. On the [...]