Seniors For Living

Every March, the National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) updates a document called the Assisted Living State Regulatory Review. If there have been any changes to a state’s assisted living regulations, they are recorded in this document. The 2013 edition ...

Introducing the NSLTCP, short for the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers. It’s a relatively new initiative from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committed to gathering information from the long-term care field for planning and policymaking purposes (...

The National Association of Home Builders chose North Hill, an innovative retirement community in the Boston, Massachusetts region, for several awards in their Best of 50+ Housing competition. The awards were issued at a ceremony recently held in Las Vegas during ...

Another year, another national art showcase open for submissions. Announcing the 2013 contest from the Assisted Living Federation of America, in which senior living residents from across the country are invited to submit photos of original artwork with a chance to ...

Paying for prescriptions, food, and the monthly utility bills is a challenge for seniors on a fixed income. Sadly, it’s more serious than that: the National Council on Aging estimates that over 13 million older adults “live in or on ...

When you become a caregiver, there is no party to celebrate your new role, no packet that arrives in the mail to congratulate you, no professional who arrives at your home to inform you on what to do. When your ...

Today’s earlier post spoke to the 5 “must-knows” of assisted living, the essential facts consumers should understand before choosing a community for a loved one or themselves (read it here). A community’s ratings -- or record -- was among ...

Caregivers are everywhere. At home, in senior living, in schools, in churches, in hospitals. There are over 65 million Americans currently caring for parents, children, friends, relatives, spouses, partners. That number will only get bigger in the years to come.

As ...

If you didn’t know it, November is National Family Caregivers Month.

For the past few months we’ve all been quite distracted (and at times even disgruntled) by the national campaign and election buzz leading up to yesterday’s ...

TEDMED is an extension of the well-known TED site, where you can listen to TED Talks and engage in a number of ways (via their conversations, initiatives, events and more) around “ideas worth spreading.” One of their national conferences, TEDMED2013, ...