Home, Sweet Home: Planning for Our Senior Experience By Susanna P. Barton
July 31, 2024
By Susanna P. Barton Part of making a solid plan for the Golden Years is aligning our visions of our second half with reality. That involves getting educated on the costs, scope, and affordability of these aspirations. Does your vision include world travel and family trips, fancy cars, and…
Disability And Design: Is Your House Ready To Accommodate Your Needs?
July 24, 2024
Are you ready? If you’re like most people, your goal is to “age in place” and live your later years in the community in your own home. Yet that goal may be sidelined by the reality of disability unless you prepare in advance for what may come. According to new…
Daily Care: Adult Day Care Is An Underutilized Option For Long Term Care
June 5, 2024
While most of us want to age in place in the community, rather than live out our final years in a facility, that arrangement can sometimes require significant support and services in the home. Especially if the person at home has physical or cognitive disabilities, significant daily help may be…
In Need Of Support: New Books Address Caregiver Challenges And Burdens
April 3, 2024
There are no two ways about it: Being a caregiver for a friend or loved one poses an enormous challenge to virtually everyone, as you try to balance the needs of your care recipient with your own, all the while learning “on the job” how to do the best you…
Falling Smartly And Safely: Advice On Avoiding Serious Injury
January 25, 2023
As an older adult, you’re probably aware of the risk of falling and sustaining serious injury. While we can safely say that no one wants to fall, we can also state that the older you get, the more likely you are to fall, and once you’ve fallen, your risk of…
Be All Ears: Podcasts To Inform And Entertain You Now
January 5, 2022
So most of us are back inside, either due to winter weather or perhaps forgoing some of the social activities we previously thought were safe, as we wait out the Omicron variant and hope to return to better days soon. That means we may be in search of easily accessible…