“We really are trying to make the most of being on the road — taking our time and visiting interesting places as well as the people we love.”
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Assisting an Immobile Family Member
Baby boomers caring for an aging family member who is immobile face special challenges.
Boomers: Hospital Volunteers Fill Their Empty Nest With New Purpose
Her husband tells the story best: “She was calling me three or four times a day. ‘How are you, honey? How’s your day going? Can I do anything for you?’ She obviously needed someone to care for.” Robert Emmitt’s wife, Julie, was experiencing the feelings so many women...
Boomers: Vacation Homes
INVESTMENT AND ANSWERED DREAM By PAMELA LUTRELL Climbing Sales Who wouldn’t like to spend the golden years listening to waves rolling in on a beach or gazing over snow-covered mountains? For previous generations these have only been dreams; however, the baby boomers...
Strength Training As We Age
START SLOW, START LIGHT With a desire to have more muscle strength and to lose weight, Karen Burrows, 57, began a strength-training program three years ago and has enjoyed the benefits immensely. “I have more energy and feel better about myself overall,” she says. She...
Baby Boomers
This sandwich generation is striving for more out of life “The baby boomers annoy me. They think they are so special. I just don’t get it,” said a millennial female to another while walking along at the Shops at La Cantera. Basically, she is right. The generation born...
Fundamentals for Choosing a Senior Care Residence
Details You'll Want to Consider It is almost inevitable that one day you will hunt for a home to live out your years or help a senior relative to do so. Senior living communities or retirement communities provide three types of residential care – independent living,...
Karen Kosub: Senior Caregiving in San Antonio
Karen Kosub finds Joy by Creating a Successful Day for Dementia Sufferers BY NANCY COOK-MONROE PHOTOGRAPHY BY JANET ROGERS Karen Kosub points to two sets of doors that mark the entrance to the Bridge to Rediscovery at the Forum at Lincoln Heights. Intended for the...
The Balancing Act of the Sandwich Generation
Who would have guessed that the carefree “Pepsi Generation” and their younger siblings would get so pooped? Little wonder when nearly half of middle-aged adults find themselves caring for elderly parents as well as raising or helping support children or grandchildren....
Financial Planning for Seniors: Avoiding Retirement Debacles
As consumers go through life, they face different financial scenarios. First there are college loans, then marriage expenses. Children come along, houses are purchased, and cars are financed. Every milestone seems to be accompanied by a major financial decision....
Senior Care Giving: A Guide to Perserving Family Memories
You can do so even as you downsize. When it’s time to downsize from a 3,500-square-foot home to a small apartment in a senior care residence, one of the hardest things to do is clean out the memories. Living in a big house, it’s easy to hide away all the paper...
Senior Care: Options for in-home care
It’s a fact that as our parents age, they will need our help. Nearly 44 million Americans – one in five adults — are family caregivers for a relative or friend over age 50. 1. It’s also a fact that we are more squeezed for time than ever before. We have full-time...
Time to Transition: Indicators that your parent needs a change
It seems to happen so quickly. One day your parent is sprightly and enjoying active retirement, and the next she seems to have aged overnight. The person who was once your role model for independence is suddenly unable — or unwilling — to do the daily activities...
If the Care of a Senior or a Love One is in your Future, Prepare Now
Unfortunately, aging brings with it a number of changes in our physical health or our mental capabilities, or both. Planning ahead can save your senior and yourself a lot of stress and time. There are so many things to consider. For example, important documents —...
The CCRC Option
Elder care at Continuous Care Retirement Communities Among the choices of housing where aging parents and spouses can get the care they need, Continuous Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) are considered the top-of-the-line option. That's because, as the name implies,...
A Tangle of Memories
Alzheimer disease touches us all While more than 5 million Americans have been diagnosed with various stages of Alzheimer’s, whether early-onset or advanced, projections are that millions more will be affected as the baby boomer generation ages. This most common of...
What’s Out There For Seniors?
My next installment of What’s Out There for Seniors deals with various areas of assisted living. In the last issue I discussed the advantages of residential care homes as a relatively new form of assisted living. There are other choices of assisted living that you...
Choices in Retirement Living
Finding a good fit in a retirement community is a concern for aging seniors and their families. The number of people seeking these lifestyles is rising as our population ages. For the past several years, many families have been unable to afford the move to a...
