The Pulse of Comfort Life Blog
Getting to the heart of the retirement experience.
March is Fraud Prevention Month—the perfect time to learn how to protect your parents from scam artists of all kinds. And how coincidental that is; this week we heard yet another sad story of a Canadian senior who was the victim of the ‘grandparents scam‘: someone called posing as the woman’s grandson and told her [...]
What does it really cost to age in place at home? You might be surprised…Is critical illness insurance worth the cost? If you’ve got cash in the kitty after that, should you help your adult kids out financially? And how’s all this playing out for seniors across the pond in the UK? We also saw [...]
A recent survey by the PEW Internet and American Life Project shows that the health industry and its resident technology partners are still missing an opportunity to serve a valuable market, the elderly and the disabled. According to the report, “54% of adults living with a disability use the internet, compared with 81% of adults [...]
In several previous posts we looked at scams that target seniors (including newer scams). Here’s a look at some simple techniques to arm yourself and your parents against scam artists online, on the phone or at the door: Tell mom and dad to just say “no” to anyone they do not know. If your parents [...]
Several years ago, my 80-something in-laws, who had never used a computer before, mentioned they were thinking of getting online. They’d heard friends talk about emailing the grandkids or self-diagnosing the odd ache or pain on medical websites and they wanted to get on the bandwagon. We, their tech-savvy children and grandchildren, thought it was [...]
There’s a pervasive notion that older people can’t, or don’t want to, use computers. Facebook fan pages, the Lifestyle section of many newspapers and guests at cocktail parties can all be counted on for stories of a senior messing up online. The reality, however, isn’t so clear-cut. Seniors do many things online Given the opportunity, [...]
According to a recent Pew Internet & American Life Project the number of U.S. seniors on Facebook and other social media sites has nearly doubled over the past year. Email remains the most popular way for seniors to stay in touch with family and friends but they now use online platforms to share links, photos [...]
Seniors who make environmentally conscious purchases every day can now evaluate retirement communities in the same way before they select a residence to live in. In the past few years more companies have been designing greener retirement residences in Canada allowing residents to live in a green way and to enjoy the health and programming [...]
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