Elderly neighbor wants to sell me her house I grew up in Pennsylvania, and was always very close to my parents’ next door neighbor. She was already in her 60s when I was a kid, but we would hang out all the time! She taught me how to knit and sew and was basically like a grandma to me. Now she’s in her 90s and I’m in my 30s. I currently live in New York city, but I’ve mentioned to her a …

How to secure elderly father’s estate, as he lives with roommates and develops dementia My dad (77 years old) has always been very independent. He loves his home very much, (all paid off) but it’s way too big for him all by himself, so in recent years he started bringing in roommates (strangers off the internet) to help offset expenses and also to keep him company. We (his children) never liked the idea, but we don’t live in the sa…

This Heat Wave Has Become Dangerous for the Elderly Also, the Women’s World Cup begins. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

LPT: Make your elderly relatives’ wifi network names and passwords the same as yours If you have elderly (or other) relatives or friends who come to you for help with wifi-connected devices, make their home wifi network names and passwords the same as your own. This way, they can easily bring a new device to your place and you can set it up for them on your wifi. When they go home, it will work perfectly without the need for any…

travel for the elderly We just learned that my mother, who is 80, has an untreatable cancer. Her reasonable prognosis is 2-3 years. So…the time to check off bucket list items is short. One item on her bucket list is a cruise that circumnavigates Iceland. I’ve never been on a cruise, I’ve never been to Iceland, and I’ve never traveled with an elderly or disabled pers…