Senior Caregivers: Check Food Expiration Dates!
I hate waste, especially when it comes to food. But while spring-cleaning my mother’s refrigerator and pantry, I was more than happy to toss those foods whose expiration dates have come and gone. However, because of my near-pathological hatred for throwing away food and the fact that my mother lives on a very fixed income […]
California Caregivers Still Waiting for Overtime Pay
Many senior caregivers in California are waiting for their promised fair wage and overtime pay. Back in January, United States District Judge Michael J. Leon ruled that in-home care workers are essentially companions and thus exempt from the Department of Labor’s mandated minimum wage and overtime pay for hourly workers. This is great news for third party employers […]
Guided Workouts in Spare Seven Minutes with App
For senior caregivers, finding the time to go to the gym or for a run three times a week can be difficult. However, working out doesn’t need to take up a lot of time and energy. Caregivers only need seven minutes for workouts using the Women’s Health 7M Fitness app. When users first open the […]
Dementia Prevention Through Brain Exercise in Memorando App
Preventing dementia or Alzheimer’s disease sometimes seems like an abstract idea. It’s difficult to know if your efforts are making a difference or to know if you’re doing enough to prevent onset. The Memorado app provides brain exercises to help caregivers and their senior clients identify areas of brain activity that they would like to […]
Japanese Seniors to Get 5 Million iPads
Apple and IBM are partnering with Japan Post to provide 1,000 seniors with free iPads for six months beginning in October. If successful, the program could increase senior users to five million by the year 2020. iPads will be equipped with IBM-produced apps specifically geared to the elderly such as reminding seniors to take their […]
Garden Planning App for Caregiver Stress Relief
Gardening offers a lovely spring and summertime activity for senior caregivers to relieve stress and for their senior clients to get outdoors for an hour or two to get some light physical activity. The process of planning and planting a garden helps keep senior minds active and prevent onset of dementia. Using the Burpee Garden […]
A New Kind of Assisted Living
The term “Assisted Living” is the most one of the most Googled senior living search trends. Although aging at home is the preference of many seniors, if there are no family caregivers available and no in-home caregivers, that solitude can be an awful thing. Those who have chosen assisted living report a high degree of satisfaction with […]
Navigate and Plan Trips in the City with Mapping App
For a senior or a senior caregiver, navigating a big city and knowing the fastest way to get from point A to point B can be difficult. With cities becoming more congested than ever, knowing the best form of transportation in real time can help senior caregivers and their clients save time. Using the CityMapper […]
Celebrating Earth Day with Seniors
Here in Chicago, we awoke on Earth Day to a light dusting of snow on rooftops. This is April in the Midwest. Consider my plans to garden with my mother dashed. But not to worry — there are still plenty of ways to celebrate Earth Day with seniors and support the environment along with its […]
5 Special Mother’s Day Gifts for Family Caregivers
Mother’s Day is fast approaching and there may be people in your household deciding on a gift for mom — some are even treating their mothers early. If you are one of the many American woman who provide essential senior care for an aging parent, care for your own children, and work outside the home, now is […]
Home Care Workers Join Fight for $15
Tax day is April 15 and when many low-wage workers look at their year-end W-2 it’s easy to ask, like Rachel (who worked in a coffee shop) did on an early episode of Friends, “Who is FICA, and why is he getting all of my money?” It’s disheartening to open that weekly paycheck to see, after […]
Are You Ready to Live to 100?
Sto lat, they sing in Poland for your birthday. One hundred years, one hundred years — may you live one hundred years! What I once thought a crazy birthday wish is closer to becoming reality, especially if you are a woman living in one of the world’s developed countries like Japan or the U.S. In Michigan, 115-year-old […]