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Senior Health and Nutrition Over 60
A Healthy Me is a site from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. It features daily highlights pertaining to elder health and living on topics such as nutrition, avoiding scams, living far from grandchildren, active aging and more. Fitness and nutritional information for seniors is also offered, as well as information about how to start an exercise program. A section on Alzheimer’s disease offers the latest on Alzheimer’s disease-related news, as well as how to care for someone with Alzheimer’s disease. A section on emotional health after the age of 60, as well as information on home safety for seniors and elder sexuality.

Elder Travel Sites: Adventures to Expeditions
Want to save money with elderly travel discounts, but don’t want to get caught in the web of the Web? This site features the best elder travel websites reviewed by senior travel editor Alison Gardner. She recommends sites such as 50plusexpeditions.com, which feature adventure travel for people over 50. Those trips take you off the beaten path and feature small group tours across the globe. She also enjoyed ElderTreks.com, which features similar land journeys for seniors that focus on culture and nature, such as wildlife safaris and historical explorations. An easy to navigate website with valuable travel information.

Lighting for Seniors: Remodeling Your Home
This article discusses how aging adults can enjoy their homes more during retirement. Knowing that aging eyes need a better kind of light and more of it to be comfortable, remodeling the lighting in your home improves comfort threefold, it says. Lighting affects everything, and many elders are using lighting to improve comfort and provide more energy efficiency. This discusses various types of lighting that are better for seniors. If you want to do some at-home projects to improve the value and comfort of your home, this article will give you all you need to know about good lighting for the elderly.

Elder Travel: Tips for a Smooth Ride
Join the senior travel editor as she explores the fun and how-to’s of elderly travel. She includes tips for traveling seniors on topics such as how they can travel with pets, taking to the road with RVs, traveling alone as an elder, safe travel tips, and more. You can check out blog posts and more on this useful site. Other article topics include senior health and planning elder care. Mostly, you’ll get some useful tips if you are a senior traveling, or a caretaker planning on traveling with an elderly citizen.