LIVE INTELLIGENTLY WHILE IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE The ElderAuthority tries to provide the best advice available for aging well and making the most of maturity. It is important to exercise, eat a healthy diet, use your brain, and have a network of friends. My husband and I are in our late 50′s and try to [...]
Is it dementia, or are you just fed up about all the things you hear about old age, dementia, nursing homes, and eldercare? One of the great things about doing your planning for getting older is that it actually frees you up. Get out of denial and make your plans for likely scenarios of how [...]
GUARANTEED DEMAND One of President Obama’s former senior advisors was famously quoted as saying, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” While it may not yet qualify as a crisis, the tidal wave of aging baby boomers now moving into their senior years will create a huge surge in the need for assisted living. [...]
REDEFINING THE VOCABULARY OF AGING In November 2009, I penned an article on our sister site, TheNewElder.com, titled, “The Vocabulary of Aging” in which I suggested that the Baby Boomers have an opportunity to redefine vocabulary related to aging, senior citizens, eldercare, and longevity. We did it for the computer age (“bandwidth”, “email”, “googling”, “web”, [...]
HUMAN LIFESPAN INCREASES Some of us may soon be able to live to ages not seen since the days of the Old Testament prophets. Lifestyle changes and advances in medical science are rapidly adding years to much of the world’s population. Americans are living an average of 3.5 years longer today than they did in [...]
There is no consensus regarding the definition of Quality of Life (QoL) for the elderly. The measurement of Quality of Life in older people is different from the general population. Measurements must address the range of aging from successful aging, through usual aging, to aging with disability or dependency. COMBINATION OF OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MEASURES [...]
If you want a good quality of life as you age, your best plan is to figure out what that means to you personally. Using myself as a guinea pig to test out this idea, I thought I would try to create my own definition of my ideal quality of life in old age. FIGURE [...]
In the old days the options for housing as you got older were few. They were limited to continuing to live in your own home until health issues required you move in with the family or moving to the dreaded nursing home. There are a lot more choices today. SENIOR HOUSING Here are a list [...]
OK…let’s have a show of hands: Who among us wishes to spend our last days on this side of the green grass lonely and in an uncomfortable nursing home bed, listening to the deranged caterwauling of a roommate we don’t know with the fragrance of unchanged adult diapers wafting about the air? Anyone? (Sound of [...]
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