In the midst of the busyness in our lives, how often do we grab a quick cup of coffee and a bagel on our hurried way to work, stopping for takeout on the way home to avoid having to cook? Younger adults with a high metabolism, optimum muscle strength, and less chronic health issues can […]
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Now that Mom has sold her car, is no longer driving and it is harder for her to get around on her own, it has been decided that you and your siblings will divide up her senior care needs. Someone has to take her to the doctor's office, grocery store and beauty shop. Someone else
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Wouldn't it be nice if there was a guidebook that provided all the answers to dementia care, rather than the guessing game so many of us are dealing with? The various periods of the disease that have to be worked through cause it to become increasingly complicated; as soon as we begin to feel moderately
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It’s hard to make healthy dietary choices when recommendations seem to change from one week to the next. We’d been informed that saturated fats that are found in foods such as red meat, butter and fried food were bad for our heart health, but later research advised there wasn’t enough proof that individuals who gave
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Campaigns against bullying are everywhere these days. We’re now a zero tolerance society when it comes to bullying, and a rough and tough ten-year-old can no longer get away with teasing and tormenting his classmates. But perhaps there’s some other, less apparent sort of bullying occurring – adult bullying between children and their senior parents.
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Researchers are shedding light on a new dementia treatment option: light therapy. Effects of light are only just beginning to be tapped into, and already are displaying some intriguing and promising results. For example, MIT research scientists are testing a type of flickering light therapy, in which the visual cortex of mice is exhibiting a
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When a heart attack strikes – and for hundreds of thousands of people, that’s going to be sometime this year – there’s no time to plan a course of action or contemplate the everyday ways in which life will change post heart attack. As with anything, the simplest defense is a good offense, and being
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As the saying goes, technology is wonderful – when it works! With so many time-saving and life-improving options at our fingertips these days, it’s easy to begin to rely fully on automation over human interaction. Such is the case with medications for seniors being prescribed electronically; only instead of making life easier, it’s being shown
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“I am looking forward to moving to a nursing home facility.” This isn't a phrase you hear often from seniors. That is because most seniors would prefer to age comfortably at home. However, there are many wrong ideas about who pays for personal home care. Will home care be covered by Medicare or Medicaid or
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Family senior caregivers are “routinely marginalized and ignored within the health care system.” So says the latest report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. With around 18 million family members serving as senior caregivers for an older loved one, this report is alarming, as neglect of the caregivers can result in seniors
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