Gloria H Schneider

Need Temporary Assistance? A Short Term Stay In Assisted Living May Be The Solution

Many times people recovering from surgery or illness are not able to return home and completely care for themselves. Assisted Living facilities around the country offer short term stays to provide the extra care needed during these recovery periods. The s... Read >

Assisted Living Residents Discover Not All Pain Is Created Equal

The patient went out of her way to avoid situations where someone might bump into her. She described her body aches as feeling as those she had a bruise all over her entire body. Rebecca, 52, has been living with this chronic type of pain for more than ... Read >

Assisted Living Communities Dispel Myths About Retirement Boredom

The preparation before work each morning starts in the same methodical fashion. At 6 am, the letter carrier irons his postal worker uniform. He enjoys a hearty breakfast of eggs or pancakes with his wife. He shines his black shoes, and he’s off to work. M... Read >

Caregivers Observe Assisted Living Residents For Signs Of Pain

How many times have you heard the so called reminder, “Big boys don’t cry," coming from a mother or father? It’s no wonder some of us, and in many cases, grown men, tend to ignore or minimize pain or the seriousness of an injury. Athletes in particular, ... Read >

Dre Beats Review

Packaging The box that the “kit" comes in is quite large, unnecessarily so, in my opinion. I can only assume that it’s because the headphones are pricey and that they wanted you to feel something substantial. Once you open the box up you see a zipped car... Read >

Challenges Of Caring For Elderly Parents Maybe It’s Time For Home Care

In an “I’m not feeling so lucky today" moment, I Googled the words: How many blogs are there on the challenges of dealing with elderly parents? True to form, a nano second provided my answer: 315,000. That’s all, I wondered? Somehow, I expected the number... Read >

Charlie Sheen

Maybe there will be a sequel, Two and a Half “Troubled" Men. That would be John Cryer because he’s now out of work and Charlie Sheen because he is now completely out of his mind. The hit show went on hiatus while Sheen recovered from an emergency room vi... Read >

A Friendly Gesture Can Go A Long Way For Seniors In Assisted Living

How would you feel if someone greeted you with his or her arms folded across their chest and their lips scrunched up to one side of their face when you walked into a room? Most likely, you would predict that something was wrong and with scrutiny, that the... Read >

13th Zodiac Sign Ophiuchus Generates Excitement For Assisted Living Facilities Los Angeles Residents

This article contains information about the 13th zodiac sign Ophiuchus and how it has affected Assisted Living Facilities Los Angeles residents and other elderly citizens of our nation. Astronomers from the Minnesota Planetarium Society have found that ... Read >

Stress Hormones And Their Relation To Alzheimers Disease

Our bodies are hard-wired by nature to react to stress in a way that was originally meant to protect us against perceived threats from predators and aggressors. The "fight-or-flight" response is our natural alarm system, and a normal psychological and phy... Read >

Alzheimer’s: Not Just About Memory But Ability To Plan, Organize And Reason

Most of us notice subtle signs of change when our parents begin to age. It is expected they begin to move more slowly, have less strength, dexterity and energy. It is also normal to have reduced hearing and vision issues or possible problems with incontin... Read >

Assisted Living Homes Help Seniors With Their Bucket Lists

“We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round." Those are the famous words of Edward Cole which was the role played by Jack Nicholson in the 2007 movie The Bucket List. The touching movie was about about writing a “bucket list" which cont... Read >