Resources for Healthy, Active Senior Lifestyle (01)

A Guide to Elder Housing by Senior Outlook Magazine
This site is the guide for elder housing, where you can find senior housing to search by distance, city and state, metro area, or the name of the housing complex. It also includes information related to elderly housing, such as senior services, moving services, insurance, storage, Medicare, Medicaid, senior associations and a glossary of housing-related terms. You can learn about how to get senior housing paid for and find other health-related services in your area. In addition, you can order Senior Outlook magazine, which will keep you posted on the latest in senior housing news and more.

Senior Safety: Fall Prevention and Overall Safety
It doesn’t take much to learn how to stay safe&$151;especially for Web-savvy elders! This site features tips on preventing falls, modifying your home for retirement, home fire safety, senior medication, driving safely as a senior, driver dementia, safe bathing tips, street smarts and walking tips for elders. Brought to you by the Canada Safety Council, seniors and their caregivers can get easy, quick tips to improve safety. Most useful are the photos that depict modifying your home for elder living, which can aid in fall prevention, better health and overall safety.

Perspectives on the Elder Prescription Plan
Historically, Medicare has not provided coverage for outpatient prescription drugs. Because that’s so important, different proposals to add a drug benefit to Medicare have been proposed in the past. This site by the Kaiser Family Foundation explores seniors’ views on the new prescription drug benefit. It features statistics on polls about how elders feel about the prescription drug program. Many people support government policies that aim to lower prescription drug prices, with 77 percent wanting Congress to let Americans buy prescription drugs imported from Canada, and allowing the federal government to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices on prescription drugs for people on Medicare Learn how others feel about this important topic relating to senior health and elderly prescription drug benefits.

Healthy Aging: Senior Longevity
Today many seniors can live longer, better lives because of new medicines that keep them healthy. Along with better nutrition and low cholesterol, low salt diets, the development of drugs that help us as we age has reduced death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and suicides significantly in the past few decades. But medications used by any aging person are truly the proverbial double-edged sword, since as many as 80 percent of the elderly are on confusing multiple-drug regimens, says the author of this article. It discusses how aging affects medicine use, diet and health for elders, aging, mental health, and gives an overview of the following conditions: high blood pressure, kidney disease, liver disease, respiratory problems, cardiac disease, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, diabetes and more.