Kerry Sherin American House, an independent and assisted living community in Michigan, recently brought virtual reality to seniors at their Riverview location, just south of Detroit, by partnering with nationwide virtual reality rental company virtualrealityrental.co. It's an exciting new concept among senior living executive directors and caregivers, who then are... read more →
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By Barbara Knickerbocker BeskindJanuary 25, 2016 Editor’s note: This article is part of Next Avenue’s 2015 Influencers in Aging project honoring 50 people changing how we age and think about aging. As an occupational therapist and someone in my early 90s, here’s what I recommend to age well: good posture and a brisk 30-minute... read more →
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The idea is not as crazy as it may seem, given the aging of the population By Steve OutingOctober 4, 2017 Credit: Courtesy of Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and AutomationThe Care-O-bot Part of the AGING AND INNOVATION SPECIAL REPORT Human relationships will never go out of style. But as robotics technology... read more →
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The balance between safety and privacy is a delicate one By Jeanette BeebeJune 22, 2018 Credit: Adobe Stock Part of the TRANSFORMING LIFE AS WE AGE SPECIAL REPORT At some point during her stay in the memory care wing of a large, long-term facility in Hamilton Township, N.J., Marie Tykarski started to... read more →
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By Julie PfitzingerSenior Editor for FeaturesMay 22, 2018 Credit: Adobe Stock Over the course of 30 years, Steve Leder has counseled hundreds of people facing all varieties of pain and suffering: death, injury, grave illness, estrangement, divorce and more. However, the senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, who has twice... read more →
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Credit: Heidi de Marco/KHNDelmar Scroughams and his wife, Vergie “Verg” Scroughams, pray before dinner in May 2018. Delmar developed dementia after a stroke in 2009 and recently started displaying anger. “In 45 years of marriage, we’ve never had a big fight,” says Verg. “That’s not my Delmar.” Editor’s Note: This... read more →
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By Beth LevineFrom Grandparents.com May 25, 2016 (This article previously appeared on Grandparents.com.) “As many as five million Americans age 65 and older may have Alzheimer’s Disease, and that number is expected to double for every five-year interval beyond age 65.” That’s a statistic from the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke. While... read more →
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Catherine Schnaubelt , CONTRIBUTOR - I write about retirement and wealth transfer planning. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Although massively underreported, financial exploitation is increasingly becoming a rampant form of abuse among aging adults, particularly those with cognitive impairments such as Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia. These crimes are... read more →
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Here's how to get respite care, and sometimes get help paying for it By Sherri SnellingCaregiving ExpertJune 23, 2017 Credit: Adobe Stock Part of the TRANSFORMING LIFE AS WE AGE SPECIAL REPORT “Respite care” can be a little difficult to understand. The words don’t make it clear who is being helped. The... read more →
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Most people think that tech and people 65+ don't mix. Not true. By Seth SternbergCo-founder and CEO of HonorJune 8, 2018 Happy asian senior man using the mobile phone at home (This essay is the 16th in the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging series, The Business of Aging, running... read more →