Blur your vision, put un-popped popcorn kernels in your shoes… now try to do your daily chores, or take a walk, or try going shopping at the market. Making adaptations for our seniors is all it takes to compensate for their physical declines. The shrinking 5 foot woman can no longer reach the products on [...]

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By 2056, I too look forward to joining the ranks of the centenarians! Over 340,000 100 year-olds+ are currently living throughout the world. The largest number in this age group resides in the U.S. (lucky for us) and Japan. According to the latest census statistics numbers in the U.S, this group will increase from 75,000 [...]

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Many of us enjoy watching “Dancing With the Stars”.  Dancing has no age limit.
Seniors …. it is time to dust off those dancing shoes. For those of you who feel that they are too old to dance… take a look at this dancing grandma!
Many seniors have a passion to dance. There are many more on [...]

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Families who move their elderly loved one into senior living don’t always fully understand the emotions and transitions for the seniors themselves.
Read this most interesting approach a middle age person has to gain an understanding of the emotions the senior has when making this big life change.
Very unique blog entries authored by Steve Gurney about [...]

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An article in the Wall Street Journal “Relatives Can Be Paid to Look After Elderly” concerns me. 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123197145248583055.html
With jobs being lost in numbers the United States has not experienced since wartime in the 1940’s, more and more families have a member that has joined the league of the unemployed. They are the ones taking on the [...]

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I find the “Aging of American” quite remarkable. It is a known fact that people are living 30 years+ past retirement!
U.S. Census figures show about 50,000 American are over age 100, with close to 1400 Supercentenarian  over age 110. The oldest human documented as such, was a French woman. She passed away in 1997 at [...]

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Most parents do not want to be a burden to their children. They also want to maintain their own lives and live with dignity, as independently as they can. Sure there is a realization that their home may no longer be the best option. But before mom and her children think of building a “granny [...]

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