Seniors For Living

What happens when the senior is a caregiver too? There are special health risks and care needs for those serving as primary caregivers to spouses, adult children with disabilities or even grandchildren. Respite must be a priority, and families should ...

Dementia. Parkinson’s disease. Macular degeneration. Depression. People are living longer thanks to medical advances, but there are consequences. In a recent article on AgingCare.com, Susan Levy, M.D., spoke to the health issues plaguing seniors today; some are ...

Memory loss and mobility impairments weighed heaviest on the minds of most senior men (64% of survey respondents), followed closely by medication side effects (63% of survey respondents): these and other intriguing results were the outcome of a recent study by Canadian ...

Health care professionals speak a language all their own -- one that most of us don’t understand.

As Rita Ude writes in a recent post for the Right at Home blog, “In the complex world of medical care and ...

When an "apple a day" or bowls of chicken soup don’t work, sometimes you just have to go see the doctor. We all – young, old and everyone in between – have our reasons for hating a visit to the M....

Though there may be a wide range of ages represented, residents in assisted living or other senior living settings are generally among their peers.

Carol Cummings, who pens the Optimum Life blog for Brookdale Senior Living, writes about a positive ...

Pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin beer, pumpkin pie: don’t be shy about indulging in all things pumpkin, because the classic fall symbol actually has a glowing reputation.

A post from AARP defines pumpkins as a “super-food for older adults, rich in ...

A fascinating article in Common Health, a Boston-based news blog, relayed study results on the stark reality of difficult healthcare transitions, particularly for seniors. Though the research conducted by Brown University is new, it affirms the ongoing observations of many ...

Working past 65 isn’t really unheard of anymore – in fact, it’s quickly becoming the norm.

We’ve profiled some amazing 80, 90 and 100-something non-retirees on the blog before (catch up on them here), but 101-year-old Sally Gordon, who works for ...

Independence is a major tenet of successful living in American society.

Few individuals, if any, want to be dependent on others for meeting basic daily needs, or even complex ones. While we may be happy to go on vacation and ...