Gone are the easy days when gardening means just making a short trip down your favorite gardening centre, buying a couple of chemical sprays and God-knows-what’s-in-there pouches of brightly colored particles they call fertilizer. The only painstaking effort you need to exert is making sure they stay out of reach of hungry children and curious pets, which I came close to both disasters before I gave up gardening—or slowed down [...]

Considering the amount of years and experiences we had behind us, it is so easy to set some standards on how we should be living our lives. However, as seniors, we tend to be overly critical and conscious of the things happening in and outside of our lives. More often than not, it is our beloved family and friends who suffer the most when we are being too hard on [...]

It is important for us seniors to engage in activities that will benefit our health. However, having too many choices to choose from makes it harder for us to decide what really is best for us. For me, whatever makes you sweat and pant like a dog is totally fine but if a certain exercise will help you get that youthful swag, then why not?.. Which boils down to two [...]

Service animals are trained to assist people with disability which can be very helpful for elderly since most of them do need assistance 24/7. One good thing about service animals is they never invade your privacy as a person making the elderly somewhat independent but at the same time, they provide much needed assistance. Service animals—more particularly, service dogs are most popular with blind people or those who are visually [...]

Healthy relationships, whether shared between family, friends or coworkers, are important. They play a very significant role in your emotional being, acting as one of the building blocks to make you stronger and be able to withstand whatever it is that fate has for you. Healthy relationships are your strongest support system, without them, you only have yourself to rely on. At any age, healthy relationships are important especially with [...]

There’s no doubt everybody in this room has had their so-called “senior moments” or in cyber lingo, mental glitches, like it’s something you can defrag, reboot or upgrade when necessary. Although subjective memory loss is almost always a portent of dementia, or so these medical researchers say, let’s for once consider this as a matter of being unorganized and always in a hurry. I say, there’s totally no harm in [...]

If there’s one group that is adamant in chasing these statistics, it is the MOWAA or the Meal On Wheels Association of America. This group provides food for those in need, even delivers it to your home which proves to be very beneficial for seniors who are no longer capable of moving around, much less cook their own food. MOWAA is very particular when it comes to understanding and finding [...]

To welcome the year right, I’m happy to announce that according to CDC or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention we are now experiencing an all time high in life expectancy! CDC’s press release was made last August 19, 2009. Indeed, it came as great news for seniors since it was reported that age-related deaths have now gone down. The press release also contains interesting facts about death and mortality [...]

This Christmas, it becomes really important to have peace of mind, or else, you don’t stand a chance of having a jolly one! Personally I see peace and Christmas go hand in hand so when you say the latter, the former becomes hundred times magnified that sometimes it almost becomes depressing to even think of. In this day and age when everyone seems to be restless and running from one [...]

One of the most painful conditions to ever affect seniors is arthritis. Most of the times, it hits mildly, easy enough to manage but discomfort is there, other times, it’s almost crippling! For your information, pain brought about by arthritis can be managed thus allowing seniors to do other enjoyable stuff—things that really matter. In a nutshell, arthritis is when there’s an existing condition that damages the joint. Literally, arthritis [...]