Aging with dignity- Living will documents are being freely distributed to 500,000  older people through the  United Health Foundation. The purpose is to help people make the important medical, personal and emotional decisions before a crisis arises.  Read More

Older residents take action against pedestrian dangers-  200 New York elderly people of the Upper West Side are taking street dangers into their own hands.  Armed with cameras they are tracking such dangers as flooding  after downpours, red lights that don't give people enough time to cross the street , and other problems keeping  many seniors from venturing out.  Read More

PBS Special "Caring for Your Parents" get controversial scathing review- Liz Taylor (the other Liz) gives a very stark and critical review of PBS's "Caring for Your Parents".   "Chock-full of pathos and bathos," she says. "There weren't enough violins in the world to pluck at our heartstrings with more emotion"  Uh, oh.  Well, nobody promised love would be inexpensive..  Read More

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• Businesses are Providing More Elder-Care Benefits  100 years ago your parents would have expected to have lived to be 49.Now the average life expectancy is 77 years.The fastest growing  group of the aging population are seniors over 85.  The second fastest are those over 75.What does that mean for us?There will be more of us dealing......
• How to Prepare for An Emergency Room Visit With Your Aging Parents Are you ready for an emergency room visit with your aging parents? What is the most important thing you need to know before you have an emergency? According to an excellent article by Jimmy Mincin, taking the list of all your parent's medications is the most important information emergency room......
• PBS's Caring for Your Parents Is a Must See  Caring for Your Parents is a new PBS documentary many of us will be able to relate to.It shows care giving from the inside out, starting with the heart.So what motivates caregivers like Lorraine, who gets up every morning at 3 AM to care for her 97-year-old mother? Or Priscilla,......
• Hawaiians May be Receiving Tax Relief for Care of the Elderly Soon We hope to see more of this.Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle has proposed a two-year, $102 million tax relief package that will partially help people who are taking care of the elderly. Her package also has provisions for protecting retirement income.Here's how it breaks down. An expanded tax credit for adult care......
• A Social Worker Gives Good Advice for Taking Care of Aging Parents Social worker Dawn Mathews has an info- packed article about caring for your aging parents. Because of her training, Dawn has been able to spot many aging problems involving her 81-year-old Dad early. She tells about such details that we should be on the look-out for such eating properly and......

• Do You Make These Social Bookmarking Mistakes? As a webmaster or an Internet marketer, you must know the value of social bookmarking and how it helps you get targeted traffic to your site and gets it indexed in the major search engines much quicker. This particular marketing tool is as popular as ever because it still has......
• Review: Nine Steps to Financial Freedom By Suze Orman When it comes to personal finance, there are few experts out there that are as popular as Suze Orman. She has helped thousands of people get their finances under control through her efforts on her radio show and through her books. Her no-nonsense, common sense approach appeals to many and......
• 5 Tips to Get More People to Read Your Corporate Blog The whole point of creating a corporate blog is to be able to reach out to your customers, build up an audience and market your company. It takes time to build up an audience but there are many things that you can do to ensure that more people will start......
• Family Relationship Advice Why do the ones we love and care for the most, hurt us? When you care for someone, you don't want to see them get hurt in any way. You don't want to see them fail. At the end of the day, you want nothing but the best for them,......
• Philadelphia Eagles sign Michael Vick!?! What's the blog lesson here? My home base is the in the Philadelphia area and guess what, my facebook, email, and all other "social" interactions are littered with Michael Vick rants. Since it was announced that Michael Vick signed on with the Philadelphia Eagles, the last few hours have jammed my head with non-stop Vick......