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It is Heart Month and a great time to begin making changes to improve our heart health. As we do, it’s important to consider the link between heart health and brain health. Maintaining good blood flow to the brain has been linked with delaying the onset of — and even preventing –cognitive impairment, including dementia. Who wouldn’t want … Read more
Just as music can bring forth memories of past experiences and bring a smile to our faces, so can the smell of a familiar meal cooking from the kitchen. The aromas of particular foods wafting through the house can make our seniors sentimental for people and events from their past. Our sense of smell is thought to … Read more
Many of us were filled with expectations that we were going to have a mild winter, with primarily rain in most parts of the country. Little snowfall was to come and envelope us in the winter spirit. A mild winter leaves us all wondering when spring might arrive because we are just itching to get to more … Read more
“I want to go home.” It can be heart wrenching when a family caregiver hears their senior loved one say that. Sometimes you are out at the doctor or running errands, maybe you are visiting them in a senior facility. They could be in their own home where you give them daily care. It doesn’t matter … Read more
Dementia affects everyone! 5 million people are currently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in the US and another person is diagnosed every 67 seconds. 1 in 9 adults over 65 has Alzheimer’s disease. Memory loss is difficult, and not just on the person who is diagnosed and trying to make sense of a world that is … Read more
The stock market hasn’t been a pretty place to have money so far in 2016. Especially if it is your life savings, money you are using to pay for food, housing, medicine and more. What you need to live, in other words. Then it can be a downright scary situation right now, the way it … Read more
It’s less a question of “if” than “when” most of us will become family caregivers to our senior loved ones. For those who aren’t family caregivers already, that is. And MANY are! According to the latest survey by AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving, 40 million Americans are providing unpaid care, 25% of them … Read more
Family caregivers of senior adults can find themselves tackling situations that are foreign to them on a daily basis. One caregiving task that might be unique for you as a caregiver of an elder family member is caring for their dentures. Yes, someone else’s teeth! “No way,” you say? Dentures require special care to keep them clean, … Read more
Our senior loved ones may remember, from their own childhoods, a time when the doctor came to their house to provide medical care and treatment during times of illness in the family. Perhaps the doctor came at the end to help prepare a loved one who passed away. It was common to see a doctor in … Read more
