Senior living facilities: 5 topics to consider
Making the choice that an aging parent is ready for a senior living facility is not easy. Finding the right place to call their new home can be even harder.
Making the choice that an aging parent is ready for a senior living facility is not easy. Finding the right place to call their new home can be even harder.
Unclear what stage of life you’re in? Here is a surefire way to tell: Check the titles of the books and magazines sitting on your nightstand or downloaded onto your Kindle.
Malka Nedivi is known for her huge sculptures — roughly hewn, sometimes eerie figures that can reach up to 10 feet high — and collage paintings that are made of galvanized metal, chicken coop wire, pieces of old clothing, and fabrics and papers.
When David Zucker walks into an assisted living facility, he doesn’t come empty-handed.
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On a recent Thursday, 81-year-old Saul H. Jacobs looked out from behind a microphone at the crowd gathered in Culver City Senior Center’s main auditorium and issued a warning.
Only a fortunate few live to be 100 in good health, but researchers hope to increase that number, thanks to scientific advances in understanding why we age and how to slow the process.
Inside the Belmont Village Senior Living’s Westwood facility, a large, 5-by-4 canvas hangs on the wall in the third-floor hallway. It’s an abstract artwork, a complex tapestry of mostly earth tones and a varied geometric scheme of squares, cut-off triangles and shapes that fall in between.
Wearers of “progressive” eyeglasses, or multifocals, must look through the top of the lenses for distance, through the middle for intermediate distance and through the bottom for close reading.