Welcome to Senior Care Advice
Helping you care for the ones you love.
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Housing & Care
There are many options for housing and care. Explore those options and talk over the possibilities with your elderly loved one.
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Finances & Insurance
What you need to know to help your elderly loved one navigate finances, government benefits, healthcare, and insurance.
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Health & Well-Being
Ways that we can help our aging loved ones stay fit, active, healthy, and resilient. Learn more about maintaining physical and mental health.
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Mobility
Staying active and safely maintaining the ability to move and get around is key to an older adult's sense of independence, happiness and well-being.
- The Enduring Stigma of the Old Folk’s HomeFamilies have always been the primary source of care for older adults who can no longer live independently. In medieval times, older adults who had no surviving family were relegated ...
- Is It Wise to Have a Medicare Advantage Plan?Most seniors are automatically enrolled in Medicare Part A when they turn 65 if they apply for or are already receiving Social Security benefits. Medicare Part A provides coverage for ...
- Seniors Are Struggling to Recover from Hurricane DamageThree hurricanes made landfall in Florida between August 5 and October 9, 2024. Hurricane Debby overwhelmed wastewater treatment plants, causing sewage to be discharged into Sarasota Bay. Hurricane Helene devastated ...
- Questions to Ask When Comparing Retirement CommunitiesWhen their children leave home, many older adults decide they have no further need for a large house. Cleaning more rooms than are in use becomes a tiresome chore. Maintaining ...
- CMS Issues Minimum Staffing Standards for Nursing HomesTwenty years ago, experts predicted that seniors would face a shortage of caregivers and clinicians as the Baby Boomer generation aged into retirement. They explained that caregiving “is intimate and ...
- Celebrate Ageism Awareness DayOctober 9 is Ageism Awareness Day. Like any awareness day, its purpose is to call attention to a problem and inspire people to take action. That action starts with the ...