Picking On Senior Citizens

Again another senior couple was brutally beaten and robbed in their own home. She opened the door to a theif and attacker who wanted money and jewelry. After giving him her purse she explained that she had no jewelry, that they were simple people. She then pushed him down and kicked him in the groin. Her husband heard the commotion and came in his wheelchair to help her, he was an amputee, he was attacked and dumped from his chair. Then the attacker started hitting him with his wheelchair. Last year from September to November there were six seniors attacked here in Indianapolis. Maybe we need to talk to our legislators about making senior crimes as serious as crimes against children. This is just a reminder of how important it is as we see our parents age to really look at how vulerable our aging parents are. Are they now living in higher crime area? Do they infrequently leave the house? That's a sure sign a senior lives there. Do they have a security system or alert button? Remind them that the world has changed and it's never a good idea to open the door to anyone they don't recognize no matter what. Read more about senior safety at Aging Avenue http://www.agingavenues.com/topicview.php?id=258&cat=3.

Options To Help Keep Seniors at Home

Today there are many services available to help keep senior home as long as possible. Begin with hiring help with the house such as lawn care, home maintenance service, housekeeping amd laundry. Since cooking involves shopping for food and then standing to prepare it utilize on of the many meals options listed under Meals. There are many options to help with monitoring their safety and homecare services to assist with personal care, shopping, driving to doctors appointments and companionship. Medications can come prepackaged or from a dispenser to avoid overdosing or missing a dose. There are even companies that will convert your garage into an apartment for your loved one. That's sometmies a better option than moving them in with your family. Get creative and work as a team to help make their life as comfortable as possible.

Adult Day Services Help Seniors Remain at Home

Adult Day Services are community-based group programs designed to meet the needs of functionally and/or cognitively impaired senior adults. Adult day centers provide a caring, home-like setting for individuals who, for their own safety and well-being, can no longer be left at home alone. Adult day centers offer protected settings which are normally open five days a week during business hours and include a mixture of health, social and support services. Specialized programs for individuals with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders also exist. Some programs are medical models which offer many medical services as well.

Working The Remote Is Hard Enough

Thank goodness Obama finally realized that this tv conversion wasn't going to work. Now we can just hope that Congress will listen. The government certainly didn't expect this many people needing convertor boxes. I even have trouble trying to figure out how to operated the remote. Can you imagine being 70 something+ with catarats and a hearing aid trying to figure out this whole box thing? Who will help them hook it up? Television is one of the only pleasures seniors have as they age and live alone. Is it really that necessary to make this conversion now? What is really the reason, I'm sure someone is profiting from all this. Maybe it was a lobbist for the tv manufacturers that did it to sell more tv's. Can't we just make their lives easy?