Living Well Newsday Resource Center
Offering more than just a guide – we provide a comprehensive platform committed to offering valuable resources, practical advice, and compassionate support for families navigating the journey of aging together. Our newsletter covers a wide range of topics, including elder health tips, caregiving strategies, medical assistance resources, and lifestyle advice, tailored to meet the diverse needs of every family member.
Protect Yourself Before You Start Shopping Online
Protect yourself while shopping online and avoid cyber scams. Expert tips on staying secure and safe online. Take extra caution identifying spam emails.
Don't get tricked by cyber scams
The Internet touches almost all aspects of everyone’s daily life, whether we realize it or not. Make sure you know who's knocking at your digital door with these tips for protecting your personal information.
Think before you click!
Home Care Vs. The Alternatives: Choosing the Right Care For You
Talking about different types of care in the abstract, however, doesn’t make it any easier to figure out whether you should age in place or enter one of the various types of facilities that offer care. That’s because every person’s situation is unique, and every person has unique needs and motives as they choose the type of care they want.
Identifying Dementia Symptoms in an Aging Parent
Dealing with dementia symptoms in your own parent can stretch the limits of your sanity. Sometimes you may not even notice the first symptoms of dementia -- the slow decline of your aging parent's memory.
Home Safety Modifications for Older Adults
Home modifications are an important consideration for older adults choosing to stay living in their homes in place of moving to assisted living facilities and nursing homes.
10 Common Medicare Questions
Medicare decisions are highly personal. And there may be as many different questions about Medicare as there are beneficiaries—maybe more. But certain questions seem to come up more often than others. Here are the answers.
Creating a Wheelchair and Walker Safe and Friendly Home
Tips and recommendations on how to make a home much more friendly to seniors using wheelchairs or walkers.
When Dan Bawden teaches contractors and builders about aging-in-place, he has them get into a wheelchair. See what it’s like to try to do things from this perspective, he tells them.
Planning for the Inevitable
Most of us plan for major events in our lives: college educations, weddings, the births of children, retirement and our final estate. Yet, a study by the National Funeral Directors Association says although nearly two-thirds of consumers believe communicating their funeral wishes to family members is important, less than a fourth have done so.