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Exploring Your Options for Retirement Living
In previous blogs we discussed planning for retirement, including the financial aspects as well as suggestions for what to do with the newfound time in your schedule. Another important decision you will need to make is where you will live during your retirement years....
Memory Loss and Aging: What’s Normal?
Do you often misplace your keys, your glasses or your cell phone? Do you sometimes have trouble remembering what you ate for breakfast? Do you find yourself telling someone a story and they remind you that you already told them the same story yesterday? Short-term...
Seasonal Affective Disorder and Older Adults
If every year around this time you start to feel depressed, it may not be a simple case of the “winter blues.” Did you know that there is an actual clinical condition called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)?While it can affect people of all ages, it can be...
Older Adults Are More at Risk for Hypothermia
Exposure to cold weather poses health risks to everyone, but did you know that risk increases even more for older adults? That’s because as you age you lose body heat more quickly than you do when you’re young, and before you know it, you can have a case of...
Take the resolutions out of your New Year
Let’s face it, it’s been a long, unprecedented year, and most of us will be relieved to put the year 2020 behind us. As the current year comes to a close, we can all hope that 2021 will be a better year. And that brings to mind the topic of New Year’s resolutions....
Dealing with the extra holiday stress of the pandemic
On top of the usual stress that comes with the holiday season, this year brings with it a host of additional sources of pressure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Holiday shopping will be impacted by restrictions on retail stores with limited capacity and limited hours....
Gifts for seniors who have everything
It seems that the older we get, the harder it is to choose gifts for us. Perhaps it’s because by the time we reach our golden years, we’ve managed to accumulate a lot of “stuff.” Sometimes, we even have duplicates and triplicates of that “stuff.” And that leaves our...