Urinary Incontinence Explained There are roughly 13 million Americans who suffer from urinary incontinence, and one in five individuals over the age of forty suffer from an overactive bladder or frequency symptoms, which results in involuntary leaking of urine. This condition affects people at any age but is more common among older adults.// Urinary incontinence [...]
Seniors Targeted by Scam Artists Senior citizens, with their lifelong savings stacked up, as well as a habit of not checking free credit reports frequently, make for a perfect target for identity thieves nowadays. The federal government has// thereby requested senior citizens to stay alert against the prevalent medicare scams that may separate them from [...]
Canadian Pharmacies Online Point, click, purchase—it’s pretty easy to purchase prescription drugs online through a Canadian pharmacy these days. And, thousands of seniors are doing just that—opting to buy their prescription medications from Canadian pharmacies where the most commonly prescribed drugs are 64% lower in Canada compared to in America.// Medicare Part D, the Prescription [...]
Nursing Home Abuse Issues State Health Facts cites that as of 2009, the United States contains 15,658 nursing homes, and 10 percent of those over the age of 65 will spend some part of their lives in a nursing home. Accordingly, there is a growing concern about nursing home abuse as the elderly are not [...]
Misconceptions about Computers and the Internet Although seniors have misconceptions about using a computer, these misunderstandings are often an important cause of fears and objections. Below we have listed a number of frequent misconceptions:// You need to be technical to be able to use a computer Not true. Senior citizens need to attend a good [...]
Internet Anxiety Not Just With Seniors At one time or another, most of us have experienced or heard about computers doing funny things. Some seniors especially can become very anxious when they contemplate using computers and fear they do not have the knowledge or ability to do so.// Lack of computer experience is one of [...]
Sometimes we come across an article so good that we want to post the original. This one appeared on BloggingAuthors.com, and the Editor, Irene Watson (Reader Views), gave permission for SCJ to re-post it here. Thanks, Irene! What Colby says in this article applies to everyone, including senior citizens who are SCJ’s primary audience, not [...]
An ongoing difficulty with our previous server, requiring considerable patience to resolve, has eventuated in moving our site to a new server. The result will be better service to our online visitors. Hopefully, our mutual frustrations in being able to access SCJ will now be resolved and the service, articles, columns and quality of SCJ will [...]
Editor’s Note: SCJ invites Guest Articles and Editorials from time to time. This is one contributed by Dave Shaw, a cousin of one of the Senior Editor’s. Dave writes a weekly blog with a spiritual bent and is devoting his time and talents to others in retirement. Giving back is just one way seniors can [...]
A major glitch, or whatever it is called, took down our website, Senior Citizen Journal, for a few days. It was totally beyond our control, and very humbling, see upcoming article: Humbling Experiences. However, we are now back up and thank our faithful readers for your patience and willingness to return upon our resumption. Please [...]
