Senior Currents
Senior Currents
Is it absent-mindedness – or Alzheimer’s?
As we described in another article in Senior Currents, many older people worry about losing their memory. The first time they forget some little thing, it’s, “Oh, I’m getting Alzheimer’s!”
Let’s clarify a few things:
Full Story >>Your mother was right about breakfast!
With all the publicity about Alzheimer’s disease, many seniors may start to worry if they forget where they put their car keys.
This, of course, is an unfounded concern. Alzheimer’s and other forms of senility are much more profound than simply forgetting what you had for breakfast.
Actually, whether or not you remember it, what you have for breakfast could be very important for short-term memory, a Canadian study suggests.
Full Story >>It’s not helpful – or even possible – to generalize about seniors getting behind the wheel. Everyone ages, and drives, differently. Some may be able to drive well into their 70s, 80s, or beyond.
But there are statistics that warrant attention.
The elderly, statistically, are more likely to get tickets for failing to yield, improper turning, and running through red lights or stop signs — which show a declining ability to drive. Older drivers are more likely to get into accidents than are younger people (not counting teenagers, of course) and the accidents are more dangerous for them than for younger drivers.
Full Story >>Help is as close as your phone or computer
Here’s a handy guide to the array of services for seniors, prepared by the office of the Public Advocate:
The Public Advocate’s Senior Action Unit can answer questions about benefits and senior services, as well as help older New Yorkers navigate city
bureaucracies. In addition, senior volunteers are available on the Senior Action Line to help peers resolve problems with city agencies and access appropriate services.
Phone: (212) 669-7250 Ombudsman Unit (Weekdays 9 a.m.-5p.m.)
Phone: (212) 669-7670 Senior Action Line (Weekdays 11a.m.-1 p.m.)
Web: www.pubadvocate.nyc.gov/services/senior_services.html
Department for the Aging (DFTA)
The DFTA can help seniors with a range of issues, from Medicare to employment and housing.
Phone: 311
Web: www.nyc.gov/html/dfta/
Full Story >>We offer the following as a preview of the type of articles coming up this winter in the Bay Currents Senior Care Guide and Supplement. We welcome your feedback at 347-492-4432 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
If it weren’t for the dearth of hair on the men and the gray color of it on the women, you might think the five-story building on Quentin Road and East 10th Street was a college student activity center.
But it’s the Senior Council Center, sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women and funded primarily by the city’s Department for the Aging. With some 8,000 members starting at age 60 and more than 400 in the building on any given day, the center is among the largest in the five boroughs.
And there may be more coming in. “The baby boomers are starting to come,” said center director Rosemary Fields, a baby boomer herself (who even was at Woodstock for one of the muddy days 40 summers ago). But she’s not worried about handling the influx. “We’re one of the most active centers in the city,” she said.
Full Story >>More Senior Currents:
Nutrition Q & A Created Sunday, November 01, 2009
Staying Safe Created Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Not Your Father’s Librarians Created Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Don’t Let The Economy Get You Down! Created Friday, September 25, 2009
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Medical Maze Created Friday, September 25, 2009
Money Managers Can Help Seniors Control Finances Created Friday, September 25, 2009
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