By Anna Hazard
As Halloween approaches ever closer, have your senior loved ones get into the appropriately spooky "spirit" by having them help create cute & creepy decor and crafts for the holiday.
The materials for these crafts are inexpensive (or have cheaper replacement parts available) and their difficulty can be adjusted to fit with their seniors hand strength, manual dexterity, or other health issues. Below are thirteen more crafting activities that can deck out your house decor just in time for a petrifyingly fun party or for trick-or-treaters to swing by.
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By Anna Hazard
As the temperatures being to drop and the leaves begin to change (at least in some regions), this marks the time of year where autumn and winter holidays begin parading in -- starting with a classic favorite in Halloween.
While All Hallow's Eve is best known for its trick or treating festivities for children, it definitely remains a holiday meant for the young at heart as well as the young of body. Even ignoring some of the gorier or scarier ways of celebrating (from full blown murder mystery parties to visiting the haunted houses that spring up like mushrooms around this time of year), there are plenty of spooktacular activities that seniors and elderly loved ones can easily participate in to join in the spirit of the holiday. Here are some senior friendly activities listed below...
By Anna Hazard
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Introduction
In this day & age, people find themselves more and more immersed in technology needed to properly keep up with an increasingly fast paced world. But while these electronic gadgets bring a host of conveniences with their use, those with arthritis, hand weakness, or other such dexterity issues may find using them a painful problem of its own.
And so here are the gadgets, devices, and other bits of ableware that make handling those other electronic gadgets far more convenient. These cover a wide scope of items available from specialty stores to your local Home Depot, ranging from simple cuffs for pushing buttons to high tech foot pedals that take the place of handheld computer mice.
By Anna Hazard
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This portion of the article series focuses on gadgets and other ableware devices that will assist those with arthritis, limb weakness, and other mobility or dexterity issues when it comes to traveling outside of the home.
In particular there are many inexpensive aids now available for maneuvering in and around automobiles as such vehicles remain the most common method of travel within the USA. Each type of tool comes in a variety of different styles, brands, and price points. Here we'll list the most common versions easily available, the least expensive options, as well as those with the best reviews. Travel
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