Organizations that aim to help seniors strongly suggest that senior citizens build their own personal support network that would be there on-call when needed. A personal support network is a group of people who are close to you and would not mind checking on your situation every now and then. This same group would also attend to your immediate needs when it happens instead of relying on others whom you [...]

Traveling is a fun and very enjoyable experience for seniors, both men and women. We travel for many different reasons, doubled if we still belong to the working force. Everytime seniors travel, they are given an opportunity to broaden their horizons by learning different cultures and visiting interesting places. It seems that everyone has dreams of traveling many different countries and cities as much as possible and fortunately, it has [...]

In some cases such as accidents and medical emergencies, it becomes easier to determine when and how to intervene with your beloved senior’s life but unfortunately, there are times when your efforts are met with resistance and things steer into a much harder road of second guessing and lifestyle changes. Sometimes, decreased capacity to lead life normally in seniors is not that obvious and worst, if the senior don’t acknowledge [...]

Good news for working seniors, effective last Friday, July 24, 2009, the third installment of minimum wage increase came through. Although the increase is not a life-changing one, this proves to be very helpful for most seniors struggling with daily expenses, and not to mention their medical needs and bills. This is the third and final federal wage increase which preceded the first two ones in 2007 and 2008. However, [...]

Although the initial shock and panic that recession had brought upon us is way behind us now, the crisis is still existent—and for how long, God only knows. Due to this unexpected turn of events that no one had dreamed of, senior workers are now making the move to, at least, damage-control the situation they find themselves in now and making the best out of it, just like everyone else [...]

Have you noticed a slight difference with how your longtime pet responds to your calls lately, particularly how long it takes for him to finally recognize the call? Or have you been noticing this already in the past and has been bothered to see that it keeps getting worse everyday? If you have been living with your pet for a long time now and you are certain he’s already way [...]

Due to years and years’ worth of abuse inflicted to our own world, it’s bound to make us pay one way or another. For now, the littlest warnings we have been experiencing from Mother Nature are enough to make us rethink of the way how we are living our lives and how large, as an individual, our impact to the world in general. It seems that with every invented technology [...]

For seniors who are looking for a retirement job either part time or full time work or even a second job for extra cash, why not try event planning jobs? Event planning or event management is an easy enough job to do especially if you love parties and are quite good at it. Best of all, you don’t need to put out money for investment. All you need is time, [...]

College at any age is hard work but like any other job that’s hard to keep, finishing it will certainly give one a kind of fulfillment that only a college graduate can ever experience. Whatever it was that had kept you from finishing it in your younger years, it is good to know that it’s never too late if and when you decide to go back and ultimately finish it. [...]

Apparently, bedbugs are infesting senior housing facilities all throughout America, the most recent reported case being the one in Boston where residents were asked to prepare their things for pests’ extermination come Friday. As to where the residents will stay during the 5-hour mandatory evacuation of the said building during the extermination period is still undisclosed. This is to address the parasite problem discovered sometime last week Bedbugs in senior [...]