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 However, many are reluctant to face this change because they are operating on an out-of-date paradigm, typically envisioning a musty, run-down "old-folks home" as the only option.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...

Are you a Baby Boomer who is taking take of an elderly loved one? I am. And maybe you also have dependent children. And/or have a job. I do. You’ve probably heard of “the Sandwich Generation?”

When my father turned 93 ½, he woke up one morning and suddenly could hardly see. Everything was very blurry (he’d had macular degeneration for a few years but had had the eyeball shots and was doing OK). But as of that morning he couldn’t drive,...

Dementia…the problem occurs in the brain, thereby making it difficult for an individual hard to learn, remember as well as communicate. In case of acute dementia, the person even fails to take care of himself. A person’s personality or mood may also change due to dementia. In the initial stages, trouble thinking and memory loss may bother an individual afflicted with dementia. However, during the later stages, problems such as disruptive behavior may come to the forefront....

The entire purpose of our existence is to learn how to discipline our natural passions and tendencies, and in the process, develop the highest of all attributes – that of charity. Never forget, however, that charity and service are not the same. Charity is a characteristic trait, service is a kind act! And while charity is certainly developed through continual kind acts of service, charity also seeks no reward and is initiated because of unselfishness and love rather than the hope...

World War two naturally had a significant impact on the amount of children born whilst the war was in progress, and there was substantial life lost on the battlefields, however this was set to change when war ended and the world experienced a baby boomer revolution.

Children of the baby boomer generation were considered by most to be born somewhere between the years of 1943 and 1964, however there is much debate on the actually period of time that one would have to have been born...