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How Older Adults and Seniors Can Gradually Age in Place
How seniors can stay in their homes by gradually remodeling their houses, adding accommodations, and monitoring technology if needed.
Benefits of Medicare Insurance Consultants
Medicare is confusing to anyone who is new to it, but it doesn’t have to keep you up at night. Licensed health Care Consultants are excellent resources to help us through the fine print.
Can You Slow the Human Aging Process With Diet and Exercise?
While humans cannot stop the aging process altogether, research indicates a healthy, nutrient-rich diet and routine exercise can actually slow the aging process. Diet and exercise can prevent age-related diseases and conditions from developing.
30 Signs of Aging Gracefully and Wisely
Here are 30 clues about graceful aging divided into 5 categories. Rate yourself now, and read them again next year to check your progress. The process of aging gracefully and wisely is progressive.
5 Things That You May (or May Not) Know About Dementia
Dementia is difficult to pin down. For some, its devastating effects come on gradually, while in other cases, they strike quickly and without warning, destroying their hapless victims in a matter of a few short months. These are a few things that our family learned after experiencing the latter.
Dementia: One Family's Struggle With This Merciless Killer
Most of us like to think that dementia is a slow process that progresses slowly. This is not always the case. This is the story of how my mother fell victim to this heinous condition out of the blue. It would, in only a few months, take everything from her, including her life.
Hypertension in Seniors
Hypertension in senior citizens is quite common, but easily treated. High blood pressure is explained, along with diagnoses, medications and lifestyle changes.
Preventing Falls in Older Adults
Older adults are at higher risk for falls than their younger counterparts, but falls do not need to be a part of life. Read on to find out out to reduce your risk for falls through movement and exercise. These can be done with a physical therapist or at home on your own. Stay active everyone!
Aloysius Alzheimer: The Man Who Discovered Alzheimer's Disease
Aloysius Alzheimer was a German Neuropathologist and psychiatrist. He is credited with discovering the first published case of a condition that was known as “presenile dementia.” His colleague Emil Kraepelin would later refer to this condition as Alzheimer's disease.
How to Age Gracefully, Wisely and Cheerfully
External applications of face creams and skin lotions may aid good looks, but aging gracefully is supported more definitely by internal applications of virtues like gratitude, contentment and joy.
25 Quotes to Encourage Relationships Among Older People
The following quotes encourage friendships and socialization among older people, in an effort to help them live happy, healthy lives. It is a proven fact that older people need people.
Helping Loved Ones Deal With Hearing Loss
Tips on helping loved ones with hearing loss to recognize and deal with their condition.
Charles Bonnet Syndrome
The Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) is a much more common cause for hallucinations than people realize. The cause is explained in this article, along with the types, symptoms and possible treatments.
Facts on Age Spots (Liver Spots)
Age spots are harmless, but this article gives you all the details about age spots, including the cause, who is at the most risk and what treatments are available is covered. Prevention of age spots is also covered.
Growing Older and Stronger (a Christian Perspective)
We measure the strength of our spirit inside us by the progress in four main areas of our lives: purpose, faith, hope and love. Here, we look briefly at how we manifest these inner strengths.
10 Brain Exercises to Boost Your Nervous System
These fun brain exercises will keep you smart and alert at any age. Plus you will learn something about motor patterns and the nervous system in the bargain.
Balance Facts
Our balance can be affected in several negative ways. Migraine, inner ear infections strokes or age can affect balance, which is covered in this article. Ménière's disease is also explained.
How to Choose the Right Walking Cane for You
Choosing to use a cane as a walking aid is a big decision. Here is a simple guide to getting the right cane for you
Tic Douloureux (or Trigeminal Neuralgia) Facts
Trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux, TN) is an extremely painful disease that is usually caused by compression of the trigeminal nerve. The symptoms, causes, diagnosis and the treatments are each explained in this article.
Art Therapy and Working With Senior Citizens
Seniors often have more than just aging to deal with. With aging comes aches and pains they never had before plus the grief of loss. There are many ways for seniors to improve their days by keeping busy and creative paintings in watercolor.
Five Important Health Tips for Seniors
Aging adults who practice an ounce of prevention can most certainly prevent the pound of cure.
40 Quotes About the Inner Strengths of Older People
Despite physical decline which signals aging, some older people maintain their inner strengths. The following 40 quotes are subdivided into four areas in which happy older people remain strong.
Reducing the Risk of Osteoporosis: What You May Not Know
Osteoporosis affects millions of people and it can be severely debilitating. However, many people have dangerous misconceptions about this condition that need to be cleared up.
16 Things That Change After You Reach Your Thirties
A list of 16 things that change as you reach your thirties: less partying, more staying in, more and more marriages, and children with less insecurity.
Cognitive Reserve: How to Build It Up
Cognitive decline is among the normal processes of aging, which simply means that the brain doesn't work as well as it used to. Cognitive decline, which can lead to dementia or other brain diseases,
How to Improve Your Memory as You Age
Mental decline is quite common among seniors. But it is possible to maintain a sharp mind as you age. Read about the 10 ways you can improve your memory and keep your brain healthy as you age.
Confronting the Reality of Aging
Our awareness of health tends to increase with age. Aging is inevitable, but by making proper lifestyle choices, many of the effects of aging can be reduced or mitigated.
6 Reasons to Remain Plump in Old Age
If you are worried, as a senior citizen, about your weight, don't! A certain amount of extra weight as we enter our later years can have its benefits.
What It's Like to Experience Alzheimer's: A Virtual Dementia Tour
A virtual dementia tour stimulates the conditions of someone suffering from dementia so that others can better understand some of the reasons for the strange behaviors. It also promotes more empathy.
How the Habit of Humming Benefits the Elderly
Before you become annoyed by the habit of humming in the elderly, find out why they hum and how it benefits them. Your tolerance level may increase, and you may gain a new appreciation for humming.
How to Minimize Falling Accidents in the Elderly at Home
Falling accidents increase with age since the elderly are susceptible to stumbling more often. Trips are alarming when impact causes very serious trauma such as a broken hip.
How Taste and Smell Change Due to Aging
As we age, we lose our taste and smell for food. Why does this happen? All about your taste buds and how they impact taste. Things you never knew about your nose. Do young adults lose taste and smell?
Chinese Checkers With Pegs, a Gift Idea for Less Nimble Fingers
Chinese Checkers with Pegs, a gift idea for less nimble fingers
13 Steps for Preventing Alzheimer's Disease
Worried about keeping your memory sharp? Here are 13 research-proven steps for delaying the onset of demensia.
Facts About Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye) in Older Adults
Tears remove bacteria and viruses from the surface of the eyes. Older people often produce fewer tears, which increases the risk of dry eyes and conjunctivitis.
Room Monitors for Elderly, Seniors, and Handicapped
Caregivers often use room monitors to make sure they have the situation under control when doing some house chores in another room. I review several room monitors and discuss their various features.
5 Tips to Reduce Nighttime Bathroom Visits
These are my top-five tips to reduce the need to visit the bathroom during the night. I've also included information on how to improve bladder control with exercise and information videos that will help you to reduce the need to get up to pee at night.
How Do I Know If My Mom or Dad Has Dementia?
Worried your loved one might be showing early signs of dementia? What's the difference between normal forgetfulness and dementia? Symptoms, possible causes, and what you can do to help.
Quick and Easy Tests for Alzheimer's Disease
Are you wondering whether someone you love has dementia? Or are you worried that perhaps you might be at risk? Try these simple at-home tests to see if you may need to consult a doctor.
Help With Depression and Anxiety in the Elderly the Non Invasive Way
Depression is a geriatric problem facing seniors and older adults, which can be mistaken as a sign of aging but is actually an elderly illness. Learn to detect symptoms of depression and help elderly people the non-invasive way
Tips for Communicating With Dementia Patients
Using non-verbal communication along with simple words is best when communicating with people with dementia.
Leg Swelling (Edema) in the Elderly: Causes and Treatment
Leg swelling, or edema, is a common manifestation among the elderly. In most instances, such swellings are harmless.
Gadgets, Devices & Independence Aids for the Elderly
Whatever your needs, there are probably ingenious gadgets, independence aids and devices that ease some of the limitations that arise as we age.
Benefits of Music in Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, and Health
Listening to music can awaken forgotten memories and happy emotions. The activity has helped people with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia as well as other people.
How to Prevent Falls at Home
Falls are one of the biggest risks to the health and well-being of seniors who live independently. Find out how to cut the risk.
Tips for Improving Nutritional Intake of the Elderly
Problems maintaining sufficient and proper nutrition can become a problem for many elderly individuals. Here are some tips to help keep them healthy.
Caring for the Elderly: Medication Tips
Complying with the doctor's orders related to medications is critical for many elderly people. But if you take numerous pills each day, it can become difficult and confusing. Here are some tips to help.