Senior Living

When you’re choosing or evaluating a senior living community for your loved one, it’s easy to focus on safety, meals, and medical care – and all of those matter deeply. But there’s another element that often gets overlooked and is just as essential to their quality of life: entertainment…

Moving a parent into an assisted living apartment can be an emotional transition for both of you. One of the best ways to make their new space feel warm and inviting is through personalized decor. If you enjoy sewing, you have a wonderful opportunity to craft thoughtful…

I love celebrating the New Year. It always seems to bring such a feeling of optimism and newness along with it. After the often manic time of Christmas, it feels good to take a breath, relax a little, and enjoy a slower pace of life, snuggled under a cosy blanket and…

I actually like seeing Dr. Delfs. Because I see her regularly, she knows me and shows an interest in both my life and my health. She makes me feel better, emotionally and physically, when I visit. Well – usually. I’ve just learned that…

Most of my boomer friends claim that they want to age in place and not move to a senior community or an assisted living home. That is all well and good – but is it feasible and realistic? To find out, I interviewed Dr. Rosemarie Rossetti…

Let’s talk about your name. You may love your name, or think it’s just okay, or wish you had a different name, and these days, you can legally change your name if you want. But that’s not really the name that we need to make sure…

How does the idea of a road trip or a vacation sound to you right now? Pretty good, I would venture to guess. In every vacation, we take two pleasure trips. One is the trip itself. The other is the anticipation of the experience – the planning…

In my last Sixty And Me blog, Do You Need a Long-Term Care Plan? I noted there are three sources of money to pay for long-term care: your own money, government sources and insurance. Let’s look at the options we have when it comes to long-term care…

The concept of “aging in place” has become popular over the years as lifespans have lengthened. Aging in place usually means living with a fair degree of independence in the community rather than in a residential facility….

Louisiana officials recently revoked the licenses of seven nursing homes that evacuated patients to a warehouse where seven of them died ahead of Hurricane Ida’s landfall. Hurricane Katrina should have been the warning shot when it…