Baby boomers are generally accepted to be that group of people born between 1946 and 1964. That would mean in 2016 a baby boomer could be between 52 and 70 years old. The oldest among them are now reaching retirement age and are set to have a profound impact on...
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Category Archives: Senior Services
How to Know When Clutter Is a Safety Issue
There are cluttered houses, and then there are dangerously cluttered houses. We have seen them all in our years as a concierge service helping people solve their clutter issues. The thing about clutter is that it can accumulate to the point of creating a dangerous situation without a homeowner ever...
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4 Reasons for Seniors to Embrace Menu Planning
As a senior no longer cooking for your entire family every evening, how do you go about deciding what you’re going to eat? Do you plan every detail about all three meals of the day, or do you tend to ‘wing it’ from one day to the next? If you...
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Things to Look for When Relocating
Relocating as a senior can be difficult. After all, it’s never easy to leave the home you’ve lived in for decades, the home in which you raised your kids and created lots of precious memories. Yet relocating is a reality for many seniors who need to downsize for one reason...
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Stay Safe While Working in the Yard
Spring is now in full bloom, which means many of our regular clients are now getting outdoors to work in their yards and gardens. That’s great! After being cooped up all winter, it is wonderful to be able to be outdoors in the sunshine and fresh air. For our older...
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How Would You like to Be Addressed?
Nicknames. They can be sweet or endearing, but they can also be incredibly annoying. We are a culture that wants to use nicknames rather than addressing people by the names given them at birth. Why we do this, I have no idea. What I do know is that many of...
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Avoid Being Scammed by Being Careful
The fact that we specialize in senior services at My Divine Concierge affords us the opportunity to hear a lot of stories about potential scams. Scammers are out there in every town and city across the country. They tend to target the most vulnerable members of society – especially seniors....
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