Given the constant increase in the percentage of aging population, it’s only natural we start thinking about nursing homes. The Internet is an excellent guide towards senior living, offering a wide range of information and many health care options. Experienced and dedicated placement specialists offer free consultations, helping direct one to the right senior care option. In order to search for available nursing homes, you will have to enter your name; the senior’s name and...

It’s important to understand that making a lifestyle change is an investment, both financially and emotionally. As with any investment, you want to do your due diligence. Many other fields of investment use formulas to help guide this research. A real estate investor looks at things like rental income, location, and down payment. A new car buyer has to consider gas mileage, financing terms, warranties, and so on.

And so it is when looking at senior housing options. The...

It is difficult for a handicapped person to travel to places everyday. Wheelchairs are good for traveling but sometimes it poses a problem. It is a problem to go up to a vehicle with a wheelchair.

But if you install an auto wheelchair lift at the back of your vehicle then it becomes an easy matter to pick up the wheelchair into the vehicle. Everything is done automatically and you do not need to push the wheelchair up or down.

You can even get down the car in the similar...

Being a primary caregiver is tough and it is universally known that the job of becoming one is a difficult transition in life. It is extremely tough to go through a reversal of parent and child in a family. It was your mom and dad who where the strong ones earlier telling you things like, “It is ok, everything will be fine soon”. They encouraged you and helped you out when it was most needed.

But as your parent starts aging, things start to change a bit. This is...

Nowadays, there are already a number of options for elderly care available everywhere. The most popular opportunity, and rapidly becoming common, is the consideration of an elderly home care. This alternative allows the old parents or loved ones to simply stay at their own home, free to mingle with their family and relatives with simply the aid of a nurse or a caregiver. If an elderly doesn’t require intensive medical care, the more this choice becomes bearable. By hiring...

Help I've fallen and can't get up!A familar commercial message but all to real to senior citizens and their families. As many of you that follow my blogs know, I am a retired disabled accountant suffering from Parkinsons. My family and I have had to make many adjustments to our lives because of my condition both physical and economic. I tried living alone and maintaining my home until my savings were depleted and eventually I had to face the reality of limited income and limited...

Adult Day Care…The Compassionate and Affordable Senior Care Solution

Most of us will have to manage the care of an aging loved one at some point in our lifetime.  A loved one can need additional care because of a medical condition or complication, a decline in cognitive functioning, or increasing isolation and depression. The responsibilities and challenges can be overwhelming for a caregiver. Navigating the options for senior care and coordinating their care can be...

The “durable power of attorney” is one of the most powerful planning tools that an attorney can recommend to a client, not only for estate planning, but also for Medicaid and other public benefit planning.

When a person (the principal) signs a power of attorney, he gives another person (the agent) the power to act in his place and on his behalf in managing his assets and affairs. The agent’s powers may be broad and sweeping so as to include almost any...

The circumstances of someone's life and death are not always easy to talk about. Especially in an obituary that could be the only article ever written about someone, and used for generations to come for genealogical purposes. What do you say?

What is an Obituary?

An obituary is a notice that announces the death of someone with a description of the person's life and list of family members. The obituary is often written by the funeral home or mortuary, but many...

Not everyone is fortunate enough to have the capacity of moving around freely. For those of us who are less fortunate and have to take the help of a wheelchair for moving around, the vertical wheelchair platform lift is the solution.

Personal elevator

The vertical wheelchair platform lift is more like your personal lift. The reason being, you will be the only one to use it. Other people also might but it will be installed for you and you are the one who will use it the...