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1. Best Gifts for Teens, Tweens and Adults!

   Looking for the best gifts for teens? Best gifts for older folks? What about little kids? The first clue is what they like. Although I believe in shopping locally, there’s nothing wrong in googling “best gifts for … Continue

2. Senior Travel Tips: Planning Ahead

   If you’re looking for senior travel trips, they all sort of fit under one umbrella: plan ahead. We’re happy to share this blog on senior travel trips from Diane Atwood via Advantage Home Care. Have a bag … Continue

3. prevent hip fracture with these 4 tips

   Prevent hip fracture with these 4 tips. This is important information to share with your loved ones over holiday visits!  Hip fractures are serious injuries that most often occur in people aged 65 and older. Women are … Continue

4. Too Much Sugar: Dangers of Type II Diabetes

   Too Much Sugar is a guest post written by Diane Atwood, shared by Advantage Home Care. My mother Beverly loves her sweets, especially chocolate. When I was growing up, she wouldn’t buy just one candy bar, she’d buy … Continue

5. Coats for seniors: warm up older Mainers

   Coats for Seniors is a Maine-based initiative to collect gently used adult winter coats for older Mainers in need. For each adult winter coat collected, Goodwill will provide the Area Agencies on Aging with a voucher to … Continue

6. Senior Halloween Costumes: Just Add Imagination!

   It’s coming! October 31, All Hallows Eve, or Halloween, and that calls for some imaginative senior Halloween costumes.  The first thing you have to find out is if the kids in your neighborhood are trick or treating. The … Continue

7. Exercise Over 50: Get up and Move! Pedometers help.

   Exercise over 50 is getting a lot of press lately. The more time you spend sitting, the shorter and less healthy your life will tend to be. That’s the new consensus among researchers. Even the World Health … Continue