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Community Spotlight: The Terraces at San Joaquin Gardens
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Living Options

Differences Between Assisted Living and Nursing Homes

Exploring your senior living options can feel overwhelming. You may feel a wash of emotions: excitement, anxiety, uncertainty about your future. If...

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Living Options

Senior Living Options: Independent Living vs. Assisted Living

The right senior living community is more than just one among many housing options. Exceptional communities can be life-changing, offering access to...

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Why Senior Living?

Community Spotlight: Royal Oaks

Living in Southern California means having the opportunity to explore bustling cities in the morning, hike quiet mountain trails in the afternoon and...

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Why Senior Living?

Residential Senior Community Spotlight: Rydal Waters

Tucked in 33 lush acres in Abington Township, Rydal Waters offers an active and maintenance-free lifestyle designed to enhance your connection,...

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Adult Child

4 Tips to Manage Sandwich Generation Stress: Squeezed Between Parents and Kids

Are you noticing that your caregiving obligations are filling up more and more of your calendar and to-do list? If you have found yourself drowning...

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Financial Planning

What is Long-Term Care Insurance, Anyway?

Planning for retirement means paying attention to different potential outcomes, including the need for advanced healthcare services. For many adults,...

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Financial Planning

3 Pieces of Advice for Financing Senior Living

Older adults are living longer than ever, and our longevity is considered one of the most significant social achievements in modern history. In fact,...

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Health + Wellness

Exercise Your Long-Term Memory With Brain Games

Science is divided on the long-term benefits of “brain games” and long-term memory. Brain games are computer-based training programs designed to...

Help parents stay engaged to prevent long-term memory loss
Adult Child

Keeping Your Parents Engaged and Mentally Active to Ward Off Long-Term Memory Loss

After years of hard work, your parents are entitled to slow down and take it easy. But slowing down shouldn’t mean disengaging. Staying connected,...

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Adult Child

5 Time-Saving Hacks for Sandwich Generation Caregivers

Family caregivers are busy. And, for members of the sandwich generation—caregivers who are supporting a child or children as well as caring for an...

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Moving + Downsizing

Downsizing Dilemmas: How to Help Parents Clean Out

Michael Norman started discussing downsizing with his parents when they were in their early 70s. But, he explained, they “loved their ’60s ‘Brady...