Brain Food – Nutrition Can Help Keep You Sharp

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...

Benefits Of Art Part 2 – Five Art Projects For Seniors

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...

The Benefits Of Art For Seniors – Part 1

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...

Easy, Fun, And Healthy Desserts

A general rule of life is that when something tastes good, it probably won’t be good for you. The healthiest things in life tend to also be bland and tasteless (like quinoa). What this means is that it can be fairly difficult to balance, especially when your loved...

Five Fun Activities To Keep the Mind Busy

As our loved ones age, they begin to find that they cannot do the things that they used to do. Sure, there are the occasional outliers who will be running marathons into their eighties, but more likely, your loved ones will need to slow down their lifestyles. And when...

How to Optimize iPhone Settings for Seniors

An iPhone can be a wonderful tool for individuals of all ages, even senior citizens. When looking for ways to keep in touch with elderly parents, grandparents, or other aging family members, the iPhone can be perceived as too complicated for senior citizen use. But...