Category Archives: Blog

Wearing a Style That’s All Your Own

Playful senior couple at weakly flea market - Happy elderly

One of the many good things that come with getting older is the boldness and confidence to be who you really are. If you’re like me you just won’t play the couture game any longer. Sometimes I like to appear in denims, flannels and boots, not so much Manolo stilettos. Other times I like flowing […]

What Are You Reading This Summer?

Senior woman reading

If it’s been a long time since you turned off the television and curled up with a good book, summer is the perfect time to fall in love with reading once again. It’s like taking a vacation right in your own living room. Any place you can imagine visiting can be found inside the covers of […]

Two Ways to Help Seniors Manage Their Money

Close up of hand stacking silver coins on wooden table

The money a senior saves throughout his or her life represents more than just accumulated assets. It represents their ability to maintain freedom and autonomy during retirement years. It also provides the ability to access any specialized care they need as they age and create a legacy to leave behind. That means safeguarding financial resources […]

Birthday Bliss — Rejoice — You’ve Made It!

Birthday chocolate cake with burning candles as a number eighty on brown background

Each and every day, including your birthday, should be a celebration of life. Just look how far you’ve come and all you’ve accomplished. Don’t waste one moment on regrets. Accentuate the positive! Each year we live should be worn like a badge of honor. I’m not 19, 29, 39 or even 49. I’ll be 60 […]

Keeping Your Cool in the Sun and Heat

Senior African American Couple Jogging In Park

Summer can be a deadly time for seniors, what with the hot weather and beating sun taking a toll. Since most of you seniors are pretty tough, you’ll suffer in the heat — sometimes at triple digits — and never say a word. But be aware: older skin is more fragile. Dehydration becomes more deadly […]

Giving Love Through Your Touch

Older woman getting a massage

As youngsters, most of us were touched quite often. Who doesn’t remember your mother’s cool hand placed gently on your forehead when you were sick? I remember momma laying me down on the counter and washing my hair in the kitchen sink followed by drying and curling and brushing and fussing. I complained about the […]

Busy Hands are Happy Hands

Asian senior woman artist sketching

Okay, if you’re the caregiver I know your hands are busy. Your loved one needs your help but chances are you’ve taken over everything! You feel overwhelmingly needed but how are they feeling? My daddy is generally a pretty happy person. The only time he gets down is when he feels he can’t do the […]

Preserving Legacies Through Oral Histories

Old photos, old family records

The study of history is often focused on and dominated by towering figures—people who shaped their time and the era that followed, seeming to change the course of history itself. With apologies to the wiser gender, this approach to chronicling is commonly termed The Great Man theory of history, perhaps made most familiar to contemporary […]

A Purpose Filled Life Through Volunteering

Happy volunteer family separating donations stuffs

Everyone needs to be needed and know they make a difference to others in this world. Our older population has a strong sense of values and one thing they cherish highly is being useful and doing good for others. You can see it in every town across the nation. Some are teaching people both young […]

A Walk Back In Time

Happy grandmother with her adult daughter

When we’re young, we look mostly to the future. In later life, a lot of our joy comes from looking back. It makes sense. The young have more future than past, while the older folks have more past than future. Sometimes we forget as adult children of seniors to include conversations that bring them satisfaction […]