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Senior Living

Get the latest information to help you live better for less in our Senior Living section.


Senior Transportation

Senior Transportation

If you’ve just passed 50, getting around might not be much of a concern to you yet, but those seniors just a few decades ahead of you are increasingly facing challenges in finding transportation.
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Senior Citizen Jobs

Senior Citizen Jobs

Just because your aging doesn’t mean your not capable of being a valuable member to a team in the workplace. More employers than ever before are seeing the benefits of hiring older, wiser, more experienced employees with a stronger work ethic than the spring chickens popping out every day. Fewer boomers are retiring than the generations before them as they drive to remain on the pulse of America and leave aging for the weary.

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s page for Elderly Healthcare provides and extensive list of links to research and studies regarding senior healthcare. Some notable information includes Improving the Health Care of Older Americans, Men: Stay Healthy at 50+ and Women: Stay Healthy at 50+.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Administration on Aging

The AoA, or Administration on Aging is committed to providing coordinated and cost effective programs both in-home and community based, focused on helping seniors maintain their health and independence.

Administration on Aging

Advance Directives

Advance Directives

Advance Directives are legal documents that allow you to dictate how you will be cared for when facing end-of-life issues including the medical care you would receive if you were too ill to choose for yourself. These directives allow you to plan ahead of time to communicate to your family and caregivers how you wish to be treated. Also referred to as a living will, these documents can allow you to accept or refuse many types of medical care when you are no longer able to speak for yourself in the matter.

Advance Directives Information

Advance Directives by State

A Grandparents’ Guide

A Grandparents' Guide

The Consumer Product Safety Commission publication ‘A Grandparents Guide For Family Nurturing & Safety’ details issues, tips and ideas to help grandparents in the successful raising of their grandchildren. Focusing on safety tips and being considerate of your own children’s parenting methods, this online brochure is packed full of helpful ideas.

CPSC Grandparents Guide

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Social Security Benefits For Grandchildren

Social Security Benefits For Grandchildren

The Social Security Administrations “Friends and Family” section contains valuable information regarding who can get benefits on your Social Security record. Check out the Benefits For Grandchildren tab, which details the procedure for a child to receive Social Security benefits from a grandparent.

Social Security Benefits For Children and Grandchildren

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National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Established at Georgia State University in 2001, the National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren has one simple goal- to support grandparents who are raising grand children to promote a successful future for those children. The Center works tirelessly at informing professionals of the unique ongoing issues facing grandparents and their grandchildren. They also provide extensive links to resources addressing those needs.

National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Resource Page

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AARP Grandparent Resources & Information

AARP Grandparent Resources & Information

In the AARP’s Relationships Friends and Family section you can find informational articles regarding family dynamics for grandparents, including ‘Grandfacts’- state and national facts regarding services, benefits and policies for grandparents raising children. You’ll also find their ‘GrandFamilies Guide’, which contains information for grandparents raising grandchildren.

AARP Relationships Friends and Family Section

AARP ‘GrandFacts’

AARP ‘GrandFamilies Guide’

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