Baby Boomers

Setting Boundaries With Your Grandchildren

 Ageing can introduce certain elderly problems that cause difficulties when trying to bridge the age gap, especially when baby boomers or elderly grandparents are living in the same home with several generations.The problems are obvious. A seventy-year-old who likes to nap in the afternoon is not going to take kindly to being...

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 Staying Active While Dealing With Elderly Problems

 Elderly problems are only worrying for those ill equipped to deal with them. Like everything else in life, if you have the tools to tackle the job, you are halfway to being successful. The tools required to deal with elderly problems, however, are things you cannot always see and touch: they are...

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Staying Safe In A Dangerous World

 This world is not as safe as we once thought it was. Every day on the news we see thievery, murder, and deceit. As baby boomers, you are prime targets for con artists, thieves, and others out to harm you. You are even more at risk if you live alone,...

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The Baby Boomers Guide to Toxic Relationships

 Psychological articles that deal with this extremely deep and frequently explored subject tend to recommend a withdrawal from all toxic influences that touch upon our lives. Toxic behavior may be described in psychological articles as unsociable; unfriendly; negative; non-productive; non-beneficial – you get the general drift…It would be a simple matter to cut...

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The Cycles of Depression

 Certain illnesses have no specific test for them, such as a blood test. And yet, the sufferers of Depression know in most cases. Their families are often aware as well. In this psychological article we will discuss how Depression works and what you can do about it.The first thing most people want...

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The Defining Moment Part 2

 When I first started as a photographer, I shot all day and night, with no regard for light at all. “I don’t have time to get up before dawn and wait to see if something happens”, I thought. I got tons of harsh shadows, especially in scenery, and was constantly...

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The Defining Moment

 You know what really drives me crazy? When you’re at an event, a family reunion, as company picnic, whatever, and some guy starts taking pictures of every little insignificant thing. Like me eating corn on the cob. Corn on the cob in one of my favorite foods in the world,...

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 The Psychology of Attention Seeking in the Elderly

.The elderly have an inherent gift for turning minor elderly problems into major dramas when they feel the occasion warrants a little attention seeking. Just as children will seek attention from a parent intent on ignoring them, the elderly will turn cartwheels (figuratively speaking of course) to feature as the main attraction,...

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The Secret to Happiness

 Everyone wants to be happy! Money, relationships, power, success, fitness, meditation, spirituality, religion etc. are all ways through which we seek happiness, but happiness often turns elusive! Some of us spend an entire lifetime seeking it…exploring different ways of reaching it, sometimes we find it …at times it disappears before...

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The Younger Heart in the Elderly Mind

 Elderly bodies sometimes carry a tragic burden: a younger heart.Everyone has heard the phrase, ‘Mutton Dressed as Lamb’ or ‘There’s Life in the Old Dog Yet’ – not always in a complimentary context. Such expressions are usually used to describe an elderly person, probably experiencing elderly problems and trying to push away...

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