How are they connected? As the Baby Boomer generation ages, it becomes more and more evident that appropriate, accessible housing stock that fits the needs of the older adult is shrinking – rapidly. There is and never will be one… Read More ›
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Stuff, Stuff and More Stuff!
Dr. Jill M. Bjerke SilverSpaces.com Everywhere you look in your home there is stuff. When Richard Eisenberg, who at the time was the Money & Word Editor for NextAvenue.org, released an article aptly titled, “Sorry, Nobody Wants Your Parents’ Stuff,”… Read More ›
THE LOSS OF 3G – HOW WILL IT AFFECT YOU?
Dr. Jill M. Bjerke Silver Spaces, LLC March, 2022 The dates are now approaching when the faster 5G wireless service will start to be introduced worldwide. The result of this is that the earlier generation of 3G will be winding… Read More ›
September is Trip and Fall Prevention Month!
Learn Important Information About Trips and Falls September is National Fall Prevention Month. So the spotlight now is recognizing the cause of these injuries and how to reduce the incidence of occurrence. One of the most devastating and costly injuries… Read More ›
What you never knew about grab bars!
Grab bars. Two simple words that one may assume describes a common solution to stabilizing a body position movement. While that is still true, the solutions to that stability have drastically changed in the last decade. What I find interesting… Read More ›
It’s the season: Considering tech gifts for older adults
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It’s the season: Considering tech gifts for older adults
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Breast Cancer and the Older Adult: What You Should Know Now
As a woman who has had breast cancer twice, I have lived through that “punch in the gut” feeling when your doctor first gives you that diagnosis and says “that word.” For me, both times, I never heard a single… Read More ›
Elderly homelessness: is this the future of growing old? (Part 1 of a 2 part series)
Every day we treat them as if they are invisible. We don’t establish eye contact and tend to go about our business of getting home or to work without a second glance. It probably never occurs to us that one… Read More ›
One day, you’re going to die. Have you put your “final wishes” in writing?
No one wants to consider that they will one day no longer be living on earth. When I give presentations on aging, I take a moment to remind people that they have the time RIGHT NOW to make decisions that… Read More ›
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