Pill Organizer: How to Pick the Best One for You!
With age, there often becomes a need to take different medications for various purposes. Typically, someone may walk into a store, grab the first pill organizer they see, and be on their way for the day. But it is time to make a change and consider that not every pill...
Protection Against Scammers
We’ve all heard the stories of scammers and how they’ve taken advantage of people, and unfortunately, their target demographic is typically the elderly. There are many reasons for them doing this, and none are good. It could be because someone older may not have as...
Signs That Someone You Love May Need Care
Many people’s top concern is about their family and loved ones, and there is a chance that if you are reading this, you have some concerns about someone in your life needing care. In this blog, we want to provide you with some loose guidelines that may help to sway...
Staying Within Your Home Longer & How It’s Possible
For different reasons, most people want to stay in their homes for as long as possible. Staying close to friends and family, staying surrounded by familiar locations, and the nostalgia and memories with your home. However, there can sometimes be a struggle to figure...
Exercise is Important, Especially for Your Brain!
You’ve heard it forever; exercise is vital, necessary, good for you, etc. But as you get older, traditional activities such as running and going to a gym become more complex and less critical. The essential part of your body that should be exercised is the part you...
How to Get a Restful Sleep?
We’ve all had those nights, the restless ones where it feels impossible to fall asleep, never mind trying to get back to sleep if you wake up. Although many of us can survive on seven or eight hours of sleep, there’s a chance if you’re older, you may not be getting...
Keeping Busy in The Summer!
The temperatures are here to prove it; summer is here! And it’s an excellent time for seniors to be active. Getting outside lets you socialise and get the daily Vitamin D needed to keep healthy. So, you step outside, take a few steps, and then have to consider; what...
Accepting Help Graciously… Easier Said Than Done.
It is part of most people’s nature to want to help others. On the flip side, for most of us -- regardless of age or capabilities -- accepting help is difficult. It is easier to offer help than to accept help yourself. It is not surprising that seniors or others...
I Want to Go Home… But You Are Home.
In working with people with Dementia/Alzheimer or brain impairment we often hear “I want to go home" or “this is not where I live”, -- yet in reality the person has lived in the location they are currently in for a few months, or even years. As caregivers or family...
Misconception: All Health Care Costs are Free
Many people have an unfortunate misconception that “being a senior” automatically means that all necessary health-care related costs are paid for by someone else – that it is free because they are a senior. We hear this comment regularly when we discuss costs for...