Senior Housing and Care Costs Are Not Spinning Out Of Control Ben Hanowell, researcher and data scientist for A Place for Mom A Place for Mom, the nation’s largest senior living referral service, recently released its 2017 National Senior Living Cost Index. This study shows which metropolitan areas and care...
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Hearing Loss May Be Associated with Earlier Death! What Did You Say??
Hearing Loss and Earlier Death About one-third of U.S. adults aged 65 to 74 have at least mild hearing loss, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Almost half of people aged 75 and older have hearing loss. A new study suggest that hearing loss may be associated with...
Face-to-Face Communication More Powerful Than Phone, Email, Social Networks
Face to Face Communication Face to Face Communication is More Powerful Than Phone, Email, Social Networks I have been saying for a while that as a society we are losing touch with each other because we do not communicate face to face. Many have joked that we have to teach...
3 Elder Care Secrets Every Caregiver Needs to Know
3 Elder Care Secrets Every Caregiver Needs to Know In each state, there is a wide array of long term care facilities that elderly individuals can choose from—each one specializing in different types of care services. However, more and more older adults are looking into growing older in their own...
What Are You Learning – Smilecast 14
What Are You Learning The interesting thing about caregiving is that every day is different. And every day teaches us a new lesson that we can apply to our lives. They can teach us how to prepare for our own aging and even how to talk to our kids about...
Our Friday Song of the Week – Proud Mary
Our Friday Song of the Week – Proud Mary
Being 60 – Reflections on Life (Video)
Being 60 (reprinted from my Sixty and Me Blog) Reflections on Life: 5 Things I Have Learned by My 60s Yes, the big SIX ZERO hits me on April 29. I remember freaking out at 30 but no so much with the other decades of 40 and 50. I have...
Being a Weekend Warrior Actually Lowers Death Risk – Smilecast 42
Does the Weekend Warrior Lower His/Her Risks of Death – Yes! Is being a weekend warrior and cramming the recommended amount of weekly physical activity into one or two sessions associated with lower risks for death? A new article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that compared with inactive...
Being 60 – Reflections on Life
Being 60 (reprinted from my Sixty and Me Blog) Reflections on Life: 5 Things I Have Learned by My 60s Yes, the big SIX ZERO hits me on April 29. I remember freaking out at 30 but no so much with the other decades of 40 and 50. I have...
Caregiver Cruise: Send a Caregiver on the Caregiver Smile Cruise
Caregiver Cruise I wrote the following for healthcare CEOs suggesting that they may want to sponsor a caregiver to go on Caribbean conference / cruise next January. In fact, anyone who wants to start a campaign for a deserving caregiver can do so following a template that I started and...