Senior Care Helps During Heart Surgery Recovery
During National Heart Month, there are two important ways you can show your heart some love: discover how to keep your heart healthy, and learn how home care can help with heart surgery recovery. Care for Your Heart These simple steps will help maintain heart fitness by keeping cholesterol and blood pressure levels in balance […]
Understanding the Risk of Depression for Older Adults
After spending time with relatives and revisiting beloved traditions and memories throughout the holiday season, it’s typical for a sense of nostalgia and sorrow to set in for older people. And while some degree of short-term post-holiday disappointment can be expected, it is crucial to understand that it could grow into depression. Depression is a […]
Taking Steps to Improve Senior Foot Health
It’s challenging to put your best foot forward when soreness wracks every step. Foot issues are common when we get older, which is understandable; there are so many delicate bones that carry our bodies’ weight. Not just that, because they are far away from the heart, our feet might not be getting as much oxygen-rich […]
A Commitment to Daily Exercise Is a Commitment to Better Health While Aging
We’re on the cusp of a brand new year, and we all realize what this means: time to declare your resolutions! If you’re similar to most people, you’ll start with the best of intentions. But as time goes by and life gets busier, you could find your determination slipping away until you’ve lost your resolve […]
Exercising with Dementia: Workouts for Seniors
When a loved one has dementia and all of the challenges that it involves, family care providers need a toolbox chock-full of helpful strategies. Out of all the innovative approaches care providers can use to help make life as meaningful, safe, and comfortable as possible, there’s one remarkably effective strategy that may be neglected: exercise. We […]
Advocating for Senior Men’s Health
If your dad, grandfather, or other father figure seems to prefer doing anything at all over visiting the doctor, he is in great company. The Cleveland Clinic recently interviewed men on this very issue and observed that only ½ of them get regular checkups, and almost ¾ would prefer to clean the bathroom than visit […]
How Home Care Helps Family Caregivers Cope with Long-Distance Care
People say distance makes the heart grow fonder, but living far away from aging parents can cause additional feelings: helplessness, worry, and concern, for example. It’s hard to know exactly how older loved ones are doing through telephone calls, video chats, emails, and letters. There are many steps family caregivers can take, however, to ensure […]
Understanding Vascular Dementia Symptoms and Risk Factors
As the most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease impacts approximately 5.8 million people in the United States. However, there is another, lesser-known form of dementia causing cognitive issues in seniors: vascular dementia. Understanding vascular dementia symptoms and risk factors, along with the unique attributes that make it different from Alzheimer’s, is essential to obtaining […]
Learn About the Recommended Daily Fiber Intake for Seniors
If the seniors in your life are more inclined to indulge in the many junk and fast food choices which are so readily available, they are in good company. Even though these types of foods are convenient, they are oftentimes full of calories, cholesterol and fat and lack fiber along with other key nutrients that […]
Top Tips for Maintaining Proper Oral Hygiene in a Senior with Dementia
It is one of the first things we do every morning, and one of the last things we do every night, typically on autopilot without giving it a second thought. Yet it actually is a complicated process composed of multiple steps, making this seemingly simple task quite a challenge for a person with dementia. Proper […]