How Much Help is Too Much Help for Seniors?
When it comes to providing senior care for a loved one, you should know the difference between doing things for a person and doing things with a person....
A Senior and Older Adult Children Caretakers?
Caregiving is a very difficult role to fulfil, as it affects the caregiver and the senior in many ways. Caregivers are not all young...
How Communities Can Support the Elderly
Senior citizens have always been the gateway to our past and the wisdom for our future. The life lessons they have learned can help...
The Knitting Kindred Spirit
Growing up in India, with only charcoal lit heaters in the central room, knitting around the fire was a common scene. This scenario so...
What Do You Call Yourself When You’re Older?
We have some terms for older adults: elders, senior citizens, the aged, old people. For a lot of us, these may not fit how...
Dining: An Experience
While a ladle cradling a prized dish may be enticing or even nostalgic, so are the historical eateries, established, some hundreds of years ago....
Accessibility: Choosing Housing that Works for You
When looking for senior housing, you can’t safely assume that the space will be accessible to you. By accessible I don’t just mean you...
Is Senior Care at Home Right for You?
Most aging humans prefer aging at home…. There are many reasons, some good, some not so. In the company of the right person, right...
Aging Health Education, 21st century and Beyond
If Health is not merely the absence of disease or infirmity and ….. as per the World Health Organization, then health education is not...
Working at Home While Caring for an Elderly with Cognitive Challenges
COVID-19 has come, challenged us, and is still amongst us. With it has come forward challenges that were unspoken in the past. We may...