Seniors For Living

Seniors experience an increased risk of falling for a number of reasons: a decline in cognitive function or coordination, decreased vision, loss of balance or mobility, depth perception issues resulting from dementia, and more. Whether you’re concerned about an ...

Know a senior who needs to feel loved today? We all do. Even if they are strangers we encounter while we’re out and about today, or family and friends residing in assisted living, in our neighborhood, or in our ...

This Wednesday, a lively dialogue among our 36 attendees offered a much broader perspective of senior and caregiving issues than usual: eldercare around the world. In the hour-long conversation, we found that while some countries are unique in their eldercare programs ...

The location: Weesp, the Netherlands, where a 23-unit community for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia opened its doors last spring. It’s called the Hogewey complex, and it offers an unrestrained approach to care.

Writer John Tagliabue tells us ...

Who wants to eat salad in the winter? I’m guessing a show of hands would reveal very few of us with arms raised, unless of course it was January 2nd and everyone was launching their “new year’s resolution ...

When you strip away all the hype and commercialism, the holiday season is really about sharing gifts and time with the people you love. It’s no wonder then why some seniors in assisted living dread this time of year.

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The work week is over. You’re looking forward to sleeping in, cooking breakfast instead of grabbing it to go, and actually drinking a hot cup of coffee.

Then you think: I should visit dad in assisted living.

Pretty soon, ...

As this week’s chat fell on the day before Thanksgiving, we thought it would be a great opportunity to give our participants the floor. Of course, we always have great interactions and discussions in every chat, but instead of ...

The interaction between kids and seniors is almost always positive, especially in the right setting and with the right instruction. For seniors in assisted living, the benefits of intergenerational programs are many. The kids benefit too.

That being said, bringing ...

This week was LeadingAge’s annual meeting, held in Denver, Colorado. Thousands of aging services professionals, organizations, providers and advocates gathered at the Colorado Convention Center to share ideas about -- and discuss the future of -- senior living and ...