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6 Foods Seniors Must Have in their Diets

As a senior, you may find your doctors shaking their heads to a number of your favorite meals. It could be a big slice of cheesy pizza, a medium-...

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7/19/21

7/19/21

9 Gadgets That Are Easy For Seniors To Use

Reading glasses can be pretty expensive, especially if the senior's eyesight keeps worsening. But what if there's a mega-scale magnifier that ...

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7/12/21

How to Travel Safely After Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine

It's been a couple months since the program for the mass vaccination of seniors begun. Most, if not all, are fully vaccinated by now. Good news ...

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7/5/21

5 Best Father’s Day Gifts for Senior Men

Look at the senior men around you. Regardless of what social class they have lived in, they have probably had more possessions in their lifetime ...

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6/14/21

5 Tips for Hiring a Caregiver for Your Senior Parents

The ailing health and aging of your parents is a part of every family's life cycle. As an infant, your parents look after you. As an adult, you're...

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6/28/21

8 Ways Yoga Can Benefit Seniors

To improve their health, flexibility, and sleep, many people opt for yoga as a way to relax, reduce stress, and gain some extra energy. Some senior...

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6/21/21

7 Ways to Make Friends as a Senior Citizen

After decades of living life, we expect seniors to have some pretty stable friendships. However, that isn't always true. As life goes on, some...

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6/7/21

The Benefits Of Volunteering For Seniors

The senior population in the United States is rising steadily. The population of older adults is projected to increase to 1.5 billion by...

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5/31/21

How Do I Know When My Elderly Parent Needs Help?

As we grow old and move on with our lives, we tend to forget that our parents are aging with us as well. It can be hard to comprehend ...

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5/24/21

5 Best Meal Delivery Services for Seniors

As people grow older, they struggle more and more with basic daily activities such as cooking. For our senior citizens, making their daily meals ...

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5/17/21

How To Celebrate Mother's Day In A Senior Living Facility

Mother’s Day is a time of love, celebration, and appreciation for the woman who gave birth to you. Many people want to make this day meaningful and...

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5/10/21

8 Ways Seniors Can Stay Healthy This Summer

Summertime is generally harsh for everyone. Even if you don’t have extreme temperatures where you will, there are days when the heat becomes just...

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5/3/21

How to Prepare Your Parents for Assisted Living

As people get older, they usually find themselves living in new localities, including nursing homes and assisted living spaces. However, moving ...

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4/26/21

11 Fun Activities You Can Do With Elderly Family Members

It's sad to see your grandmother or favorite uncle stare out of the window all day. Their wheelchair-ridden, insulin-powered life is a serious down...

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4/19/21

5 Tips on How to Help Seniors Stay Safe When Living Alone

The aging population is swiftly increasing in the United States, and similar trends are being observed worldwide. Figures shared by the American ...

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4/12/21

Why COVID-19 Vaccination Sites are Not User Friendly for Seniors

Unless you’re living under a rock, you probably know that the COVID vaccination program is currently being expanded on a nationwide scale ...

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4/5/21

What The Elderly Should Know About The COVID Vaccine

After a year full of grief and anticipation, freedom is finally in the air - at least for the elderlies across America. So, to all seniors who are ...

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3/29/21

Are Your Elderly Parents Reluctant to Get the COVID Vaccine? This May Be Why

On March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared the COVID-19 crisis a global pandemic. Luckily, we now have a vaccine that...

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3/22/21

Is It Safe To Visit Elderly Parents After They’ve Been Vaccinated?

COVID-19 has had a significant impact on families all over the world. With the older population being much more high risk, families have been taki ...

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3/15/21

How to Help Your Parents Get the COVID-19 Vaccine

When the world first stumbled upon yet another global pandemic, COVID 19, it was our seniors who were exposed to the highest risks. However ...

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3/8/21

7 Things Your Parents May Be Secretly Struggling With

As we grow old, we realize that there are many things we were capable of doing with ease that are now challenging. The same goes for our parents ...

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3/1/21

Why Your Mom Doesn’t Call You

As we grow older, we get busier. As a consequence of lack of communication, the relationship between children and their parents can deteriorate ...

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2/22/21

A Guide to Using the iPad for Seniors

Seniors of the current times have somewhat agreed to use the devices we use. From air conditioners to bullet trains to tablets and iPads, they’re ...

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2/15/21

Why Should You Get Photo Apps For The Elderly?

Seniors often find it challenging to embrace modern technology and smartphone apps. And by the time they start getting familiar with a tool, it ...

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Video Calls for Seniors

The cyberspace has allowed us to connect with each other like never before. With the growth of technology, it’s easier to keep in touch with any...

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How Does Telehealth Help Seniors During COVID-19?

The pandemic has altered our lifestyles and behaviors, confining us to the boundaries of our homes and forcing us apart from our loved ones...

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How Can Senior Homes Use Technology?

Senior homes can embrace technology in many ways to elevate and innovate the lives of their residents. Seniors often complain about a lack of...

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1/25/21

The Boomers and Silver Tech

Gone are the days when we joked about our parents and grandparents not understanding how touch screens work. From automatic washing machines to...

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What Does Living With Your Grandparents Mean?

In a world that consists mostly of nuclear family systems, it might seem odd to have your grandparents live with you. But, if you've planned to...

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How To Safely See Your Parents During COVID

The pandemic is turning our lives upside down. Something as normal and routine as visiting our parents is no longer simple. It now requires...

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7 Facts About Aging You Didn't Know

Getting old may look like you're slowly approaching a slow-paced lifestyle, but it's more than that. There are also numerous perks to growing older...

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Your Parents are Lonely – What Are You Doing to Help?

Now more than ever your parents are lonely – what are you doing to help? Loneliness goes hand-in-hand with age. It’s normal to feel lonely during...

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Why am I Getting Burnt Out Taking Care of My Parents?

As children, we wish to have our parents by our side for all of our lives. They're supposed to protect, support, and mentor us even when we're full...

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Why Your Older Loved Ones Needs Wi-Fi at Home

As times are progressing, the technology and modern way of living are also advancing, and while the new generations grow up with it, often many old...

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Why Having A Community When You Age Is Important

A community is very important for your senior loved ones. When you spend time visiting them, you are contributing to their emotional happiness...

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7 Vital Exercises for Older Adults

Doctors and trained health professionals have for decades stressed the importance of exercise, may it be among teenagers, adults, or the older...

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How to Set Up an iPad for Seniors

The first iPad was released a little over a decade ago. Since then, Apple has employed numerous upgrades, versions, features, apps, and access...

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How the Internet of Things Can Help Seniors

The internet can help seniors as much if not more than it helps us. We, as a society, have begun spending more of our lives connected to the intern...

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8/12/20

Why Is Mental Health as Important as Physical Health for Seniors?

With advancements in medical research on mental health, discoveries made by health professionals claim that it is necessary to take care of mental h..

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7/27/20

Caring for elderly family from far away

Caring for your parents or grandparents from afar is not easy. You may not do all the physical work, but their day to day responsibilities and duties

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7/22/20

What is aging in place? Useful tips to make it successful for your parents

They were strong and looked invincible. You turned to them for confidence and confirmation. They took care of you from the beginning. They worked to m

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7/15/20

Elderly Legal Concerns - 4 Things Everyone Should Have Prepared as They Get Older

As time progresses and old age comes to us all, we begin a new era in our lives. Our elderly parents enter a new world that may not have been the...

Arwin Wang

7/8/20

Six ways for older adults to fight loneliness

As your older family member ages, feelings of loneliness are inevitable. Most of your family might have moved out, many of their friends are aged...

Post Vaccination Travel Destinations for Seniors

6 Foods Seniors Must Have in their Diets

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7/19/21

7/19/21

9 Gadgets That Are Easy For Seniors To Use

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7/12/21

7/12/21

How to Travel Safely After Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine

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7/5/21

7/5/21

5 Best Father’s Day Gifts for Senior Men

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6/14/21

6/14/21

5 Tips for Hiring a Caregiver for Your Senior Parents

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6/28/21

6/28/21

8 Ways Yoga Can Benefit Seniors

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6/21/21

6/21/21

7 Ways to Make Friends as a Senior Citizen

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6/7/21

6/7/21

The Benefits Of Volunteering For Seniors

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5/31/21

5/31/21

How Do I Know When My Elderly Parent Needs Help?

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5/24/21

5/24/21

5 Best Meal Delivery Services for Seniors

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5/17/21

5/17/21

How To Celebrate Mother's Day In A Senior Living Facility

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5/10/21

5/10/21

8 Ways Seniors Can Stay Healthy This Summer

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5/3/21

5/3/21

How to Prepare Your Parents for Assisted Living

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4/26/21

4/26/21

11 Fun Activities You Can Do With Elderly Family Members

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4/19/21

4/19/21

5 Tips on How to Help Seniors Stay Safe When Living Alone

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4/12/21

4/12/21

Why COVID-19 Vaccination Sites are Not User Friendly for Seniors

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4/5/21

4/5/21

What The Elderly Should Know About The COVID Vaccine

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3/29/21

3/29/21

Are Your Elderly Parents Reluctant to Get the COVID Vaccine? This May Be Why

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3/22/21

3/22/21

Is It Safe To Visit Elderly Parents After They’ve Been Vaccinated?

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3/15/21

3/15/21

How to Help Your Parents Get the COVID-19 Vaccine

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3/8/21