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October Safety Tips for Seniors: Staying Safe and Healthy This Fall
As October settles in, the days get shorter, the air turns crisper and leaves blanket the ground. While Fall is a beautiful time of year, it also brings unique challenges for seniors, including fall hazards, colder temperatures and changes in health conditions. At...
The Benefits of Continuing Education for Seniors
It’s that time of year again – the grandchildren are heading back to school. As people age, the concept of learning sometimes takes a back seat. It can be easy to fall into the belief that education is reserved for the young. However, continuing education for seniors...
The Importance of Nutrition for Seniors
As the sunny days of fruit and vegetable picking wind down, it’s an ideal time to focus on an essential aspect of senior living: nutrition. Proper nutrition plays a critical role in maintaining health, vitality and overall well-being for seniors. At Baldwin House...
Staying Hydrated During The Summer: Tips For Seniors
As the summer heat intensifies, staying hydrated becomes crucial, especially for seniors. At Baldwin House Senior Living, we want to prioritize the health and well-being of our residents by emphasizing the importance of proper hydration. Here are some practical tips...
The Transformative Benefits Of Mindfulness For Seniors
As we age, maintaining our physical and mental health becomes increasingly important. One tool that can help is mindfulness. Mindfulness, the practice of staying present and fully engaging with the current moment, offers multiple benefits. Although it may help people...
Spring into Motion: Outdoor Exercise Tips for Older Adults
As Spring unfolds its gentle warmth, it’s the right time to step outside and embrace the power of outdoor exercise. Baldwin House Senior Living knows it’s important for seniors to keep active, and springtime offers the perfect opportunity to revitalize bodies and...
Aging in Oakland: Response to growing group
Birmingham NEXT looks forward to tripling its space to 30,000 square feet when it moves from its current location at the former Midvale School into its expanded digs in a renovated Birmingham Family YMCA building on Lincoln Avenue by the summer of 2026.
7 Ways for Seniors to Savor Springtime
As the days lengthen and flowers start to bloom, spring offers a rejuvenating invitation to step outdoors and embrace the season's beauty. Baldwin House Senior Living understands that for seniors, this time of year can be particularly invigorating, providing a chance...
5 Ways to Help Seniors Enjoy Valentine’s Day
Valentine's Day, February 14, is typically seen as a celebration of love and affection, and it’s a perfect opportunity for seniors to reminisce, connect with loved ones and enjoy the warmth of companionship. This is also true for older adults who reside in any of the...
12 Ways Seniors Can Stay Safe In Winter In Michigan
Winters in Michigan can be downright deadly. The arctic blast of winter and snow and below-freezing temperatures are a sure sign that winter is here and that older adults need to exercise caution. At Baldwin House Senior Living, we know how unpredictable winter can...
6 New Year’s Resolutions For Seniors
The new year brings with it a renewed feeling of purpose and excitement to see what lies ahead. The senior aging professionals at Baldwin House understand that older adults and adults of retirement age enjoy the countdown to the new year. We’ve come up with 6 New...
How To Reduce Loneliness For Seniors During The Holidays
Senior loneliness is becoming an epidemic in the aging population. The pandemic with its lockdowns kept many older adults in Michigan housebound and away from loved ones. Even though the threat of the pandemic has passed, the threat of isolation in the aging...
How A Retirement Community Benefits Family Caregivers
You love your parents. No one would doubt that, but if you’re in the “sandwich” generation – those individuals who are still raising their own children, maybe holding down full-time jobs themselves and caring for aging parents and loved ones, it can seem like you’re...
How To Choose A Retirement Community
There are so many things to think about when retirement is looming. Will you take a much-deserved vacation? Will you take up that hobby you’ve always put off? Where will you live? Is it feasible to stay in the family home, or will you move next to your children and...
The Best Dogs For Older Adults
At Baldwin House Senior Living in Michigan, we understand the importance of dogs in our own lives and in the lives of our residents. That’s why we are happy to share that our communities allow our residents to bring their furry friends with them. We get asked all the...
How Happiness Leads To Healthier Aging
Don’t let your golden years equal slowing down, sitting back and simply aging. When you enjoy your life and are happier, you just might be healthier as you age! The retirement living and active adult professionals at Baldwin House Senior Living in Michigan know that...
Senior Financial Tips: Investment Fraud Protection
LISTEN HERE FOR SENIOR FINANCIAL TIPS: Investment Fraud Protection Providing false information to get someone to invest with you is investment fraud. Did you know: 1 in 13 financial advisors has a misconduct-related disclosure on their record? The median settlement,...
What Is Retirement Living?
When it comes to independent living, senior housing and even active adult living, there is confusion and misunderstanding because the terms are used in different ways by different people and by the senior living industry itself. Toss the term “retirement living” into...
Senior Financial Tips: Power Of Attorney
LISTEN HERE FOR SENIOR FINANCIAL TIPS: Power of attorney The most important power you can give someone is the power to act on your behalf when you no longer can. Power of attorney. Giving someone legal power over your affairs when the time comes A medical power of...
Senior Financial Tips: Stop Financial Exploitation
LISTEN HERE FOR SENIOR FINANCIAL TIPS: Stop financial exploitation. Financial exploitation means using an older adult’s funds or property for someone else’s profit or gain. How can you spot this? It could be as simple as a family member living with a senior and...
Senior Financial Tips: Don’t Talk To Strangers
LISTEN HERE FOR SENIOR FINANCIAL TIPS: Don't Talk To Strangers Many seniors used to give this advice to their kids, and now those kids who are adults are giving their parents and loved ones the same advice. “Don’t talk to strangers!” This is especially true if the...
Senior Financial Tips: Email and Phone Scams
LISTEN HERE FOR SENIOR FINANCIAL TIPS: Email and phone scams Many seniors live on a fixed income but still become the targets of unscrupulous individuals. These individuals have bilked seniors out of more than $3 billion a year. The scam starts innocently enough with...
Senior Financial Tips: Financial Exploitation
LISTEN HERE FOR SENIOR FINANCIAL TIPS It’s important to remind everyone that senior financial exploitation isn’t carried out only by strangers. In fact, almost 60% of the time it’s perpetrated by family members. The abuser,...
The Benefits Of Community For Older Adults
Even though the social isolation brought about during the COVID pandemic should be in the rearview mirror, many older adults are still suffering from social isolation and loneliness. At Baldwin House Senior Living, we understand the importance of cultivating a culture...
Senior Financial Tips: Minimize Risk Of Financial Abuse
LISTEN TO THESE TIPS! Who would take advantage of a senior citizen or older adult? Sometimes, sadly, it’s the people who are closest to them – friends, family or caregivers. Senior Financial Tips: Minimize Risk Of Financial Abuse There are ways to minimize the risk of...
7 Reasons Senior Adults Need Sleep
As we age, it’s more important to make sure we are getting our zzzz’s. At Baldwin House Senior Living, we understand that a healthy and restful sleep may be harder to come by for senior adults. We also know that it is crucial to healthy aging, and that’s why we have...
What To Expect As You Age: What’s Normal vs What’s Not
It’s not possible to stop the aging process, but you might be able to slow the process and make your Golden Years as wonderful as possible. What to expect as you age: what’s normal vs what’s not is something that many of the older adults who reside in one of our...
How To Address ‘Caregiver Guilt’
The professionals at Baldwin House Senior Living understand that when it comes to making a decision to move an aging loved into a senior living community, it’s not an easy one to make. We have put together a list of how to address 'caregiver guilt' and why moving into...
Beware Of Financial Scams & Requests For Money: Senior Financial Tips
Marty Feldman offers a Senior Financial Tip and this tip is about how seniors tend to trust individuals who appear to be in authority. These so-called trusted individuals can persuade a senior to co-sign a loan or be promised companionship in exchange for money....
How Does Exercise Benefit Older Adults?
At Baldwin House Senior Living, we understand that active adults typically enjoy longer, happier and healthier lives. How does exercise benefit older adults? That’s something our residents ask us and something we talk about regularly. Exercise helps you age more...
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The Gillette family has been serving seniors and their families for more than 40 years with quality senior living. Choose from independent living, independent living with assistance, short-term stay and hospice provided by a third party, in Clinton Township, Grand Rapids, Hazel Park, Pontiac and Spring Lake.