If you’re like most people, you’re not aware of Sundowner’s Syndrome, often referred to as “Sundowning” or Late-Day Confusion. This is a syndrome that can affect seniors, but not all, who suffer with dementia or Alzheimer’s.
Author Archive | Mai Thompson
Empower The Elderly
As many people age, they develop feelings and thoughts of being useless, abandoned and rejected. Sometimes there is no reason for these feelings, but oftentimes the people around them inadvertently say or do things that cause these thoughts.
Improve Seniors Mental Health
Ways To Help Improve Mental Health In Seniors By the time you’re 80 years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.” – George Burns Just when you think life should be getting a bit easier, it has a funny way of changing things up on you. As you age, your mental health […]
Lonely Seniors
While, for many seniors, it seems that it’s inevitable that as they age, they become lonely as well, but in reality, loneliness doesn’t have to be a part of a senior’s life, plus it isn’t a healthy state of mind. How you can identify loneliness and help your loved one.
Improve Senior Balance Coordination Strength
As we age, often we find that our strength, our balance and coordination decline. But it doesn’t need to be that way… we can maintain or improve with these healthy tips…
Gifts For Memory Impaired
As we approach the holidays, or any other time of year when you like to remember the special people in your life with a gift, it is often difficult to find the right gift for someone who is memory impaired.
Eliminate Stress Senior Move
Whether you’re moving into a college dorm, your dream house or into a senior community, moving, just by its nature, is stressful…but it doesn’t have to be…
Senior Move Mistakes
Is there a move to a senior community in your future or the future of a loved one who you will be helping during this “big event”? There can be a lot of anxiety associated with a rightsizing move, but much of it can be avoided it…
Choosing Senior Living Community
Questions To Ask When Choosing A Senior Living Community Retirement’s the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it’s time to enjoy my retirement.” – Patrick Macnee If the time has come for you or your loved one to […]
Move Into Senior Community
You have made the decision that when the right time comes, you will move into a senior living community…the problem is, when is the right time to take this next step in your life?