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Snowstorms and Senior Safety

As I am writing this I am in sunny, southern California enjoying time with some of the kids and grandkids. But back home it is a different story. Nearly a foot of snow, sub-zero temperatures without the windchill factored in,...

March 26, 2022

Aging Parents Aging-in-Place Emergency Preparedness Fall Prevention Fire Safety Senior Home Safety

Space Heater Fire Safety

A space heater has been implicated in the recent fire tragedy and loss of life in the Bronx. It highlights the important fire safety message conveyed in the Senior Home Safety Specialist certification training. Space heaters, especially those without automatic...

January 11, 2022

Aging Parents Aging-in-Place Caregiving Health and Nutrition

Tips to Care for Aging Skin

If you’re getting older, you may notice that you’re bruising more easily, that bruises and cuts don’t heal as quickly as they used to, and that your skin seems thinner overall. There’s a reason for this. The reason is that...

December 24, 2021

Aging Parents Aging-in-Place Caregiving Health and Nutrition

The Significance of Socialization

As a species, humans are so eager to communicate with one another that, for thousands of years, we’ve been inventing and improving upon ever more ways to do it, from cuneiform and clay tablets, to parchment, pen and paper, to...

December 20, 2021

Aging Parents Aging-in-Place Caregiving Health and Nutrition

The Cost of Staying Healthy

According to a report put out by Georgetown University (Prescription Drugs | Health Policy Institute | Georgetown University) seventy-five percent of people in the fifty to sixty-four year-old age range and ninety-one percent of people over the age of eighty...

December 17, 2021

Aging Parents Aging-in-Place Caregiving Health and Nutrition

Seniors Caring for Seniors

Americans provide 37 billion hours* of informal (unpaid) care each year for spouses, parents, siblings, and even sometimes friends with chronic health conditions that prevent them from performing the usual activities of daily living (ADLs) without assistance, endangering their independence....

December 13, 2021

Aging Parents Aging-in-Place Caregiving Crime Prevention Identity Theft Senior Home Safety

Financial Exploitation. Elder Beware!

Whenever I see or hear about a scam directed toward the elderly, my first thought is, “Get a life, people!” Don’t these thugs have anything better to do than steal from the elderly? And just how would they feel if...

December 10, 2021

Aging Parents Aging-in-Place Caregiving Health and Nutrition

Glaucoma Basics

Did you know that the term “glaucoma” doesn’t refer to a single disease? The fact is that glaucoma describes a group of eye conditions that cause progressive damage to your optic nerve—a bundle of nerve fibers that transmits sensory data...

December 6, 2021

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Snowstorms and Senior Safety

Space Heater Fire Safety

Tips to Care for Aging Skin

The Significance of Socialization

The Cost of Staying Healthy

Seniors Caring for Seniors

Financial Exploitation. Elder Beware!

Glaucoma Basics

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