10 Essential Apps for Seniors

What are apps? Read on. I find people like Steve Jobs (may his soul rest in peace), astonishing? Why? Because people like him seem to dictate the pace of technology. For example, in 1983, he predicted the evolution of a “new digital distribution system.” Ten years later, in 1993, the first PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), the…

Technology Benefits Among Seniors

Can you imagine what a senior’s life would be like if not for the latest in technology? It would certainly be like my father’s when he was in his 50s. My father was with the mass media and I can still remember his banging away at his Olivetti portable typewriter until late at night for his newspaper…

Six Ways to Develop a Healthy Eating Habit

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are,” Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 18th-century French lawyer, cum epicure, and gastronome. It’s been a long time since he said those words, but it was as true then as it is now. The increasing problem of obesity and chronic diseases more than says it all.

How to Live Fully If You are a Diabetic

If diabetes is a boxing match, I would be at ringside. The analogy is appropriate without a reason. My younger sister and brother are diabetics, so are my remaining two uncles. More than five of the guys I play tennis with are diabetics. A cousin had his right leg amputated because of diabetes and a…