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Bingo isn’t just for grandma anymore

The image of bingo is traditionally that of a big hall with bad lighting, a monotone ball caller and grandmas with 30 bingo cards fastened to a table with adhesive tape. Rhythmix Bingo has changed the old feel of bingo into an evening filled with music, dance, live entertainment, celebrity ball callers and a whole...

How to Find Free Rides for Seniors Who Live at Home

How to Find Free Rides for Seniors Who Live at Home. Help your parents stay active without busting your budget.

15 Questions to Ask When Interviewing a Home Health Care Worker From an Agency

When you hire an in-home health care worker from an agency rather than independently, you usually work closely with agency staff instead of job applicants. These questions can help you navigate the agency hiring process

10 Questions for an Elder Law Attorney

Many concerns and questions can arise as we grow older. In the last decade or so, a new category of law has emerged that specializes in helping retirees answer their questions and learn their rights. Here, 10 questions for an elder law attorney.

5 Ways to Stop Senior Citizen Scams

How can you protect a senior citizen you love against the growing scourge of elder fraud? Here are 5 tips from Consumer Reports.

Is It Indigestion or A Heart Attack?

The holiday season can sometimes lead to unhealthy behaviors. We indulge at holiday buffets, enjoy an extra cocktail, skip our regular exercise and stress about everything that needs to be done. Perhaps that’s why there’s an increase in heart-related deaths during the holiday season. After analyzing 25 years of data and 53-million U.S. death certificates, researchers discovered the correlation, with heart-breaking numbers peaking on Christmas, the…

Virtual Senior Center Helps Isolated Elders Stay Connected

If you are caring for someone who lives alone or is isolated due to health and mobility challenges, I encourage you to look into this innovative program. CJE Senior Life – an organization providing a wide range of high quality senior services to Chicagoland for over 40 years – has introduced its Virtual Senior Center...

Senior tech helps baby boomers come of digital age

Study Finds Seniors Benefit When Asked How To Help Them

A federally funded research project in Baltimore has potential to help aging-in-place efforts elsewhere, a study in Health Affairs reports.

3 ways PT helps seniors thrive

9:43 amOur bodies are meant to move, yet ailments of aging such as arthritis can make even simple exercise painful. The worse thing to do is remain inactive all day, which aggravates the condition. The solution: physical therapy“Physical therapists are highly educated and licensed healthcare professionals who can help patients reduce pain and improve or restore mobility, in many cases without surgery or the…

Transportation Software as a Partner in Making Senior Centers Better

Senior Centers provide a rich and engaging experience with many benefits, and we help better make that happen by providing transportation software.

How do Levels of Care & Aging in Place coexist?

 Inviting Fickes House Kitchen  At Homestead Village, we offer you the best of both worlds! The traditional Continuing Care Ret...

seniors are health-confident, less financially so

Most seniors look forward to aging in place, and are confident in their ability to do so. Such is the top-line feel-good finding from the National Council on Aging‘s (NCOA) survey, The United States of Aging, sponsored by USA Today and United Healthcare. A majority of seniors have a sense of purpose and plans for their future. Three-fourths of older Americans say staying physically fit through…

Stay or go? Aging in place has a new meaning for seniors

Most seniors want to grow old in their own home, but what if that home doesn’t meet their needs as they age?

Definition and Symptoms: Senior Cognitive Issues (2 of 4)

In this video, "Definition and Symptoms," certified senior advisor Mary Alexander from Home Instead Senior Care talks about what types of cognitive problems there are and describes some of their symptoms.

Designing for seniors, students use ‘human-centered’ approach

Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab project tackles social issues and global problems with for-profit endeavors; this year’s focus is seniors’ unique needs.

U.S. Seniors Become Digital at United American

Seniors are becoming more and more tech savvy and actually prove to be more interactive on Social Media than youngsters. United American increased its digital tools for consumers and brokers.