Senate Says No to Senior Stipend

The senate rejected the $250 check to elderly, veterans and people with disabilities.  This especially hurts the elderly since there was no cost of living increase this year.
Read more here, Senate rejects $250 checks for elderly.

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Checklist for Elders during Snowstorms

Snowstorms or not, its important to have a checklist of items prepared.
Here are a few items you may or may not already thought about.

If your elder has a home, do they need to go out in a storm? If they are anything like mine, they don’t want to go out.
Make sure they have all the [...]

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Reflections on the past several days

I’m not going to go on and on about how significant the past several days have been for not only those who live in the US, but also the world. What I am  going to highlight is on those who have seen a lot in their years.
Our new president-elect highlighted a story about a centenarian [...]

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The Stimulus Payment…and being elderly

Yes, we know that its been a while since we written. Since I have a backlog of projects and all, it hasn’t always been easy to get back here, but we do have a couple of topics to cover. The first of which is the Stimulus Payment.
Grandma got a letter from the IRS containing [...]

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What to Ask your Parents Checklist

In the October 2007 issue of Real Simple, there is article called Caring for Aging Parents. They also included a checklist of questions to ask which include living situation, health and finances as well a links to other resources.

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