Fire is an element that has no boundaries once it ignites especially if it has something to burn and breathe. It can consume anything in its path leaving a lot of distraction and despair. Your home is your sanctuary and protecting it and your family should be your number one priority. Within a fraction of a second, your home may be turned to ash and everything you’ve worked hard for, [...]

With the current technology and increased availability of internet communication, handling a lot of our daily activities have become very easy. Communication is one of the sectors which has been greatly impacted and heavily relies on the internet. People now communicate with friends and family members from all over the world through social media, email among others online. The key issue with online communication is how much personal information should [...]

Years of driving may have put your old self into confidence and comfortability when on the road that it is not impossible to overlook some of the basic safety tips when driving. While road mishaps are still very much rampant, most of it can be avoided – actually almost all of it could be avoided if only the drivers were more cautious of their driving habits. The sad truth though [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

See, I’ve been doing my homework. Now that summer is here, we seniors should be doubling our efforts in keeping up to date with latest scams since this is the season when scammers are on their most active and that is an official statement from my friendly neighborhood policeman! I have already posted about the “financial adviser” scam which sounds really sophisticated if you ask me since it is you [...]

If there’s one thing we, seniors, avoid the most, it would be falls and slips as we all know the health implications that come with it. However, as we age, it gets a little harder to avoid falls and slips considering those several factors which might lead to a fall or a slip are the exact same things we can’t do without. I, personally, am conscious of my surroundings and [...]

When we talk about summer, it automatically connotes hot weather and well, fires. If there’s one thing I fear, it’s fires, whether it is a natural occurrence or a product of human ignorance. Just the same, if you are a senior with very limited range of motion, you would want to avoid fires as much as possible too. Seniors and children are at highest risk when it comes to fires [...]

Seniors are easy targets for unscrupulous people. Scammers target seniors. Con artists seek seniors – that’s just how it goes. Whether we like it or not, we become thief-magnet as we age so it is absolutely necessary for seniors to apply certain safety measures to protect themselves as well as their properties. Yes, that’s right. Making sure that your home is adequately protected from unwanted “visitors” should be your top [...]