Senior Citizens

Good news for seniors (and other techies): The touch screen has arrived!

January 27, 2010

Consider the following quote from PC Magazine, and what implications it has for senior citizens: It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what it is that makes touch screens so cool. Maybe it’s that swiping your finger across a display is just a lot more fun than hitting an actual button to get where you’re going. Or [...]

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Sources of assistance for home modifications for seniors

January 8, 2010

Image by joyrex via Flickr Most aging folks would prefer to stay in their own homes as they grow older.  However, many of their homes are not well-suited to disabilities and impairments with which they may deal, and the cost of updating or remodeling to make such houses more usable for them is prohibitive for [...]

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Elderly grandmother found dead in own home after three days…

January 5, 2010

Not a pleasant headline, I know, but we’ve all seen it.  Perhaps, like me, the image of a person you love forces its way into your consciousness when you hear such a story.  It is especially sad because many if not most of these events could end differently. You may have noticed that I accept [...]

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IPod Therapy for Alzheimer’s Patients – Say What!!??

December 31, 2009

The following quote is taken from a report I read on the Wall Street Journal website: One of the raps on iPods is that users tend to close themselves off from other people and retreat into their own private world.  But with stroke and dementia patients, iPods and other MP3 players are having just the [...]

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