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Keeping Activities for Dementia Engaging One of the challenging aspects of living with a loved one who has dementia is coming up with activities that are engaging, fun and easy to do. Having [...]

We know that most children struggle with the idea of how to properly care for their elderly parents. Although this conversation seems like one for the far future, it’s never a bad idea to start [...]

It’s understandable that the majority of the elderly would prefer to stay at home for as long as possible. There’s a level of comfort to aging at home, surrounded by all your memories and beloved [...]

Staying Mentally Strong Do people really get wiser as they age? Wisdom is hard to define; but is considered by most to be a combination of knowledge, experience and good judgement. Maybe wisdom [...]

Grief And The Causes of Depression It’s often hard to know the causes of depression and how to know where grief ends and depression begins. I started thinking about all of the many [...]

The Risks for Evacuating Seniors. If you found yourself evacuating for Irma a couple weeks ago, and if you are of senior age or were responsible for evacuating an elderly loved one, you [...]

The Walk to End Alzheimer’s Is Here! The Walk to End Alzheimer’s comes to Savannah every fall and it’s your chance to do the most actionable thing you can to fight [...]

Ask most people who are aging where they want to live out the rest of their life and they will be quick to tell you, “in my home”. Few folks ever plan to leave their home as they get up in years, [...]

Adding Clarity To Advance Directives Understanding Advance Directives can be an intimidating task. Because of this, people ask me all the time what types of forms are the most-important to have [...]

The Wonder of Exercise For Seniors A recent Time Magazine headline caught my eye: “The Exercise Cure”.  This is something I’ve been touting for years. That exercise is great medicine for the body [...]

A man by the name of Arthur L. Williams Jr. went from being a P.E. teacher and high school football coach in Columbus, Georgia, to a mega star in the insurance world, and beyond; writing an [...]

The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden recently performed a study with some valuable information. It stated that some of the most common medications prescribed to older adults can increase [...]

My Lifetime Commitment To Slow I’ve never been fast at anything. Even when I was a competitive runner I was always in the middle of the pack. I think my obsession with the word “slow” started at [...]

Your Roadmap For Paying For Senior Care As the largest birth generation in America, an astounding number of baby boomers will need senior care sooner rather than later. If we take the 76 million [...]

Proof The Age Is Just A Number Recently I read where Meadowlark Lemon, the “Crown Prince of Basketball” and great Harlem Globetrotter of years ago, passed away at the age of 83. I remember the [...]

A Stress Free Transition to Assisted Living Deciding to move your parents to Assisted Living is a big decision. It’s really important that your parent views this move as a way to continue to [...]

Caring For Elderly Parents Besides the “birds and the bees,” it can be one of the most difficult conversations in your life…how to talk to your aging parent about assisted living.  Caring For [...]

Making The Most Out Of Holidays For The Elderly Just about everyone looks forward to gathering with family and friends for the backyard barbecue. There are few times more fulfilling than holidays [...]

Talking To Parents With Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s is currently affecting over 5 million people worldwide. A large majority of these cases afflict the elderly which means that there are [...]

A very nice lady said to me the other day, “Don’t get old”. Translation…It’s no picnic when I hurt much of the time, and I miss my family and my loved ones and that makes me sad and lonely, or I [...]

Making The Most Out of Tax Breaks For Seniors It’s common knowledge to accountants, but not many people know about the available tax breaks for seniors. I’m personally not a tax expert by [...]

Planning For The Cost of Assisted Living We’re all getting older and the day will come when we’ll be in need of Senior Care. This will come in the form of In Home Care and/or assisted [...]

The Missing Joy of Holidays For Seniors Holidays are times for family get-togethers, generations of traditions and much celebration. After all, we say we celebrate the holidays. The reality, [...]

Preventing Elderly Dehydration Anyone who has a loved one with Alzheimer’s or Dementia knows that stress that comes with communicating. Hunger and pain are often two topics that can be hard [...]

The Fear of An Alzheimer’s Diagnosis The fear that accompanies the thought of an Alzheimer’s diagnosis is often crippling. When I was a kid growing up in the Northeastern Hills of [...]

The Guide To Heart Attack Symptoms How many times have we heard about them? Seen advertisements about them on TV? Read about someone who was experiencing them and unfortunately died? Yes, I’m [...]

The Age of Senior Discounts I celebrated my 55TH birthday about a month ago. It was on a Wednesday, which played right into one of my most long-awaited desires…walking into the Kroger supermarket [...]

Thinking Down The Road I meet family members every week that ask me questions about their parent’s ability to pay for long-term care. The conversation usually starts with a question regarding [...]