No guide to retirement living is complete without a few tips to maximize your living space. Although moving into a senior living community or a smaller home is often a positive experience, downsizing does present certain challenges. A cozy new home without massive upkeep problems is something many seniors appreciate, but it can be difficult to know what to keep and how to organize.
When you are the child of an aging parent, you face a conundrum. Put yourself in your father’s shoes for a minute. You have dedicated your whole life to caring for family. Now, due to the natural order of things, every day that goes by it seems one more task slips from your fingertips. That is a hard pill to swallow.
It’s always nice to put a face with a name. The Episcopal Retirement Homes (ERH) Board of Directors is made up of volunteer members who are dedicated to the organization’s mission: to “enrich the lives of older adults in a person-centered, innovative and spiritually based way.” In this entry, you’ll meet a few of those volunteers.
Aging is one of the few absolute certainties of life.
Without a doubt, senior housing has come a long way in the past few decades. But there are always improvements to be made.
With warmer weather comes parties, get-togethers, and family gatherings, so Springtime means cook-outs, pool and garden parties, and celebrations full of love and laughter. But after the cold winter months finally start to disappear and the temperatures start to rise, it’s not uncommon to find that things around the house or apartment are in need of a little more TLC than you might have first thought.
Though we always want to expect the best of new acquaintances, it’s becoming increasingly common for seniors to find themselves victims of people they thought were trustworthy. While that’s certainly more the exception than the rule, senior citizens have become a favorite target of many of today’s scam artists. The new senior housing bubble is a primary focus of those trying to cheat seniors out of the money they’ve worked so hard to save up, and there are several other types of scams and fraud that these predators rely on.
