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Old January 18th, 2008, 02:29 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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Default Advice For Seniors - Working Your Way Through Retirement

Caring for the elderly can be daunting and challenging at times. It is
something to that everybody has something to worry about sometime.
Everyone gets old in each and every family, and at the very least,
most people have a relative of an advanced age. This stage poses a lot
of uncertainty and behavioral change that the person himself/herself
is unaware and can hardly control.

1. Theory on Behavioral Change Among Elderly

Each of life's stages are characterized by unprecedented behavioral
change. Your preferences in food, color, clothing style, company,
music genre, etc are mostly affected. In a latest study, it was found
that people periodically change in their preferential course of life,
including aspirations approximately every 7 years. Just as how complex
this change in the early life are as complicated when one turns into
old age. People may find elderly people annoying but these behaviors
are a result of various physiological processes occurring in their
body as they approach such age. Many may have seemed to develop
resentment on an activity that they previously enjoy. They develop
resistance to many things such as loud sounds, discomfort on almost
anything, incontinence, and apparent withdrawal from the society.
Understanding these queer behaviors and how they arise will provide
you valuable information that you can use in tailoring the kind of
care needed for your elders.

2. Tips on Caring for Seniors

While geriatric care managers are the expert in the provision of
health care among elderly, everyone can empower themselves to be
equipped with the right training and knowledge in geriatric (referring
to old, elderly) and better assist aging members of your household
such as your grandparents and parents, and older siblings. Below are
the lists of useful tips on how you can better assist our elders as
they embark on this stage of life with full of challenges and
uncertainties and assist elderly on protecting themselves, physically
(health matters), financially and legally on everything that concerns
your assets.

3. Be Completely Absorbed

People who have had experience taking care older adults, especially
the caregivers and other geriatric care managers, considers giving a
"piece" of yourself into a health care program designed for such
individuals. More than ever, accompanying them in this critical stage
provides them with enough relief with all dramatic changes they are
experiencing physically.

4. Secure Health Care Insurance

As you age, you will be more prone to diseases. Your body will become
more vulnerable to diseases. You tend to develop illness that do not
normally occur in healthy, young people. Because of this, more and
more people are paying closer attention to the quality of medical or
health insurance they enroll to and make sure that it covers programs
expected when one reach old age. Review carefully your health
insurance policy and make sure you understand the entire terms of
service programs stipulated in it.

5. Financial Care for Elders

As we reach retirement age, you will be more or less dependent upon
your retirement pensions unless you have acquired a business of your
own. This leaves you little flexibility in the amount of income or
budget you will get for a month but this very same financial rigidity
empowers or teaches you to limit your spending to an amount that is
appropriated for you for a specific length of time.

6. Elder Care Law

The government dutifully protects senior citizens' rights and extends
support for elderly who still can manage to take care of their own and
during the time that they need other else's supervision in the
performance of daily activities such as cooking, bathing, feeding,
taking medications and leisurely walks, etc. It is important to note
that legal provisions vary from state to state and that the help of a
professional family law or elder care law attorney should be
consulted.

7. Relegating Power of Attorney

Power of attorney is a legal right whereby an individual is granted
certain rights to act as a representative of someone in the
performance of a certain legal actions or decisions. Elder individuals
become less able to dealing with affairs concerning their assets,
including financial, monetary, and estate affairs. It is about giving
someone the authority to do the affairs for you especially when you
reach the stage where you can no longer perform these activities
yourself.




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