Home childcare is an excellent choice if you prefer a less businesslike approach to childcare. You will find that there are fewer children on site, and that children are in a home with a family or individual rather than in a business. Home daycare centers are state licensed, and can provide care for children of all ages.

What to Look for In a Home Childcare Center

It is important to note that home childcare centers will have varying regulations from state to state....

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Brooklyn Accident Lawyer) My friend's mother passed away at home recently. Now this is not one of those tales of a senior citizen beaten or hurt or injured by a her home health care givers. This story presents a different kind of horror, one of theft. There are many ways to cheat the elderly, and some are legend. There's the young woman who pretends a romantic...

My mom, bless her heart, turns 80 next year. I worry about her. My sister lives with her while my mom cares for my nephews, which she’s done for the past 20 years or so. I think it’s time for her to hang up her apron-strings and relax already. This is not how she envisioned retirement but the reality is things have changed. She's part of the 'sandwich generation' .

These Ain't Your Dad's Golden Years

Ah, the Golden Years. I imagined that my retirement...

Products and applications useful in monitoring your elderly relatives and at the same time help them lead an active independent lifestyle.

1. iPhone:Apple’s iPhone has changed the way we live and work in many ways. For the seniors, while the ease of use is great, there are number of applications that help them which makes the difference  –  reQall, a memory tool that helps in remembering and reminding things like taking medicines, diet, groceries and such,...

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...

Along with age increasing, the digestive function of the elderly has been change gradually, such as the ability of gastric dilatation is weakened, absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions of the stomach or decrease of the activity of digestive enzymes that all will cause the incomplete food hydrolysis and influence digestion and nutrient absorption. So, how to adjust the diet of the elderly to health? Eating High Quality Food Such as soy products, eggs or milk and so on...

When you’re looking at the step stool placed before boarding a bus, do you ever wonder if this step stool is safe or not? Let’s inspect one of the step stools buses use and why they choose it. There are some metal step stools that are being used by the buses. These are made of square metal tubes welded to a metal frame with legs that have rubber pads on the bottom. At first look, this step stool seems sturdy, but if we examine it closely, you may find that these bus step...

Over the past 20 years, more and more Americans have developed into a trend of depositing our elderly into nursing homes, assisted living facilities and the like.  Recent studies have shown that over half of these seniors do not require the type of intensive medical supervision nursing homes and intermediate care facilities were designed to provide.  These facilities were established for seniors who are in, or are very close to hospice level medical condition, and who require...

As America ages, more and more elderly people every year are faced with the need to make a lifestyle change. However, many are reluctant to face this change because they are operating on an out-of-date paradigm, typically envisioning a musty, run-down "old-folks home" as the only option.

And 50 years ago they might have been right. But retirement communities are much different now... and they aren't the only alternative either. While the senior housing market is...

As you write an obituary, there are many things to keep in mind; these obituary writing tips will help you complete the obituary accurately and with a focus more on the life than the death.

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 people choose to write an obituary for their loved one...