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...

Everyone knows that a healthy diet combined with moderate exercise is the cornerstone of any weight loss program.  There’s no magic pill or wand, no special food, and no particular body movement that will make the pounds melt away without effort.  Dieting without exercise is futile.  But what many people don’t realize is how crucial exercise is when people age 60 and above attempt to lose weight.

The University of Pittsburgh conducted a study on exercise...

The Funeral Program Site is a good resource to get help in creating and designing a funeral program booklet. There is also a large variety of funeral resources to assist you.

A funeral memorial service program highlights your loved one and the life that they lived.

Honoring the life lived by the deceased is important since so many keep it as a memorable keepsake. Some find gathering all the information to be somewhat daunting, so enlist the help of friends and...

While anybody can be at risk of having a stroke, the elderly are more vulnerable. Elderly people who suffer from high blood pressure are at high risk.  In cases where high blood pressure is accompanied by diabetes, smoking or the drinking of alcohol the risk is even higher. Men are also more at risk than woman.

Elderly people are not always aware of these factors and sometimes seem to be oblivious to the facts. In a study done by Mayo clinic in 2007 they found that 50% of...

Taking care of an elderly person in their own home often seems like the first and best option for families. Most seniors want more than anything to stay at home, and their families want to see them remain independent as long as possible.

Asking an elderly person to make the best long term plans and choose the "best" options doesn't always work, however. An elderly person who wants desperately to stay at home will often deny problems and safety hazards that are glaringly...