Housing Options

By Marianne Delorey As a provider of housing, I know that my biggest competition is not the fancy new apartments down the street. It is...

The Holidays Are Over - Time to Get Serious   By Alain Valles, MBA, MS Happy Healthy New Year That blessing is not just for your physical wellbeing...

Desire More Cash? For today or tomorrow? By Alain Valles, MBA, MS So many things are causing fear. Globally – world conflict, politics, and inflation. Personally...

In 1985, a comic first appeared that proposed one way to judge a film. The Bechdel Test is a simple measure about a movie’s inclusion of female characters. The test asks: 1) Does the movie have at least two women in it? 2) Do they talk to each other? and 3) Does their conversation touch on anything other than a man? Because the Oscars are coming up, this article focuses on creating a similar way to rate how elder-friendly a movie is. Because of the length and breadth of her career, I am calling this the Betty White Movie scale.

I love my home.   I love my independence.   I love my reverse mortgage. Home Sweet Home “I love my home.  I’m getting older.  I want to be financially...

By Micha Shalev Part one of this series appeared in the April issue of the Fifty Plus Advocate. Part two appeared in the May issue...

By David J. Dowd Seniors have many more choices for housing than their parents did. Many elders are not aware of some of the available...

The number of so-called multi-generational households — where adults are living with their elderly parents or grown children — has jumped since the Great Recession forced Americans to rethink living on their own.

While in college I worked at a nursing home where I met Mary. Mary had severe dementia and was combative. One day while trying to bring her to the commode, she punched me. Hard. With both fists. In the kidneys. I saw stars. Cathy was another resident who would lash out. Cathy did not honor social envelopes nor did she know when enough was enough. She would interrupt me without thinking and would talk for hours if left unchecked. Sometimes, if she felt she was being ignored, she would get in my face and say some pretty unkind things.

By Marianne Delorey “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think...