GREAT NEWS! Your Friends May Be Key to YOUR Healthy Aging Brain
We here at POP like to remind both our aging community and those POParenting them that healthy aging involves leaning on four legs, like a table. Leg #1: a healthy body; Leg #2: enough money Leg #3: a spiritual base to lean on; Leg #4: a good social life –
No One’s Too Old for a More Fulfilling Sex Life – Not Even YOU!
We here at POP are delighted to see the popularity – and hear from you all about the usefulness — when we write our blogs and share articles with you, our POP Community, about sex and seniors. Although some younger folks may squirm at those thoughts, most everyone we know
How to Empower Yourself at the Doctor’s Office and in the Hospital
As we enter flu and cold season, seniors become particularly vulnerable to the ravages of flu, pneumonia and dehydration. POP aims here as elsewhere to empower you to take good care of your own health!! POP recommends you can best stand up for your own health when you’re feeling weak
Having Sex Helps Older Brains to Work Better
More good news for those of us with “older brains:” remaining active sexually – even with oneself – as minimally as once a week helps our minds stay younger. It also helps our spirit and our bodies to stay engaged with living. Anything you would like to add from your
See If You Can Get Paid for Caring for Your Aging Parents
Depending on where you live in the States, and depending on certain health, age and money requirements, you may get PAID to do what you’re now doing for free. Read this important article. Among the many words used to describe family caregivers — invisible, overwhelmed, heroic, to name just a
The 6 Steps You Need to Take to Prevent Falls
For those of you familiar with our book “Oh My God! We’re Parenting Our Parents” you may remember that Jane’s mother had encountered a bad fall that resulted in hip surgery and also resulted in never living with her dad again, nor really being able to learn to walk. We invite
5 Ways to Help Aging Parents Plan for the Future
As our parents get older and begin to lose their independence, many will turn to their adult children to help them navigate the complicated and costly world of long-term care. Yet for adult children already caring for young kids of their own, this new role of “caregiver” can be a
Transform Your Caregiver Loneliness now: check out The POP Family Coaching Program
We at POP truly understand and feel compassion for what it’s like to feel isolated, unappreciated and exhausted. Especially on a long Labor Day Weekend as you labor. Research shows 2/3 of unpaid caregivers helping a family member with dementia suffer from health-threatening isolation and intense aloneness, feeling unappreciated by
Retire, Re-Wire, or Re-Create Yourself? What Will YOU Choose to Make Yourself Happy?
What will YOU do to leave your family and community a legacy? We, at POP, are reading articles and hearing from you in our community about how much loneliness and purposelessness many of you are feeling after you “leave work,” and/or lose your loved ones to illness, dementia and death.