by Mike McQuinn | Sep 30, 2016 | blog
When people get older and they retire, it becomes hard to find things to occupy their time. Before, they had full schedules and full lives, work to be done every day, and then chores and more. Now that they’re retired, the only thing that they must do is find...
by Mike McQuinn | Aug 20, 2016 | blog
It’s always difficult for two groups of people who grew up in very different times to connect to each other. When two groups don’t have much in common, it can become hard to find commonalities, and easy to dwell on the things that make them different. This is a...
by Mike McQuinn | Jul 16, 2016 | blog
There is never a bad time to volunteer, as every volunteer organization that needs people to help accomplish their mission can tell you. The seniors in your life want to give back to their community just as much as you do, and there are ample opportunities for them to...
by Mike McQuinn | Jun 8, 2016 | blog
Alzheimer’s disease, as with so many forms of dementia, is a sad affliction to watch anyone struggle with. There is much research being done into prevention and cures from the medical end of the struggle, and all anyone wants who sees their loved ones struggling with...
by Mike McQuinn | May 20, 2016 | blog
At any stage of life, staying active and working out pays great health dividends. Many diseases are connected to a sedentary lifestyle, or to a being overweight, and making sure that there’s some exercise in the life of your aging loved ones means that they will be...
by Mike McQuinn | Apr 21, 2016 | blog
Fraudsters have, for many years, targeted seniors, for everything from Ponzi and investment schemes to fake collection claims for bills that they never accrued and debts that they do not owe. It’s sad, it’s despicable, but it is a reality that needs to be faced and...
by Mike McQuinn | Apr 5, 2016 | blog
At the turn of the century, as the internet became more common in households across the nation and the world, video phones for allowing people to communicate in-person became a popular market. However, this hardware gave way to much simpler to use, and much easier to...
by Mike McQuinn | Mar 29, 2016 | blog
For a long time, it’s been said ‘you are what you eat’. While this is certainly not true, as I have yet to turn into a large salmon, the food that we consume will have an impact on our health over the course of our lives. Believe it or not, what you eat, and what your...
by Mike McQuinn | Mar 6, 2016 | blog
In the first part of this post, we talked about the benefits that your loved senior can receive from learning to express themselves via art. Now it’s time to look at the kinds of projects that may be appropriate for your aging loved ones, and how to make a beautiful...
by Mike McQuinn | Mar 1, 2016 | blog
Art can help to make sure that the older loved ones in your life stay mentally and even physically active in a variety of ways. It can be a very valuable activity for keeping the mind working, for working parts of the mind that seniors don’t often use in their later...
