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Heart failure. Does your senior loved one have it – and it them? Have repeated hospital admissions plagued them over the past year due to congestive heart failure? Are they closely following their treatment plan? Everyday monitoring by their healthcare team become part of her or his routine? What should family caregivers know to help … Read more
We want to live long, happy lives and hope for the same for our senior loved ones — maybe even more than for ourselves. What we don’t want is for them or us to live those long years in sickness, weak and infirm. We want our seniors and ourselves to stay healthy through the aging … Read more
Family caregiver of senior loved ones is a role that knows no bounds of gender, age or ability — requiring only that one care enough to take actions that make better the lives of aging family members. It isn’t even necessary to be in the senior’s home, city or state to provide valuable senior care. … Read more
Social networking is finding growing popularity among older adults, a trend we see a great, both for seniors and their loved ones. We’ve been urging family caregivers to encourage and enable their senior loved ones to give social media / social networking a try for some time. We consider it so important that we’ve made … Read more
Have your senior loved ones made advance directives decisions, including “Do Not Resuscitate” or DNR orders, and made them known yet? Do you have a copy of their advance directives? Do you know where a copy is? Have you made your own advance directives yet? What happens to your senior if you are unable to … Read more
Falling can result in disabling injuries for seniors, causing loss of independence for far too many and hurting the quality of their lives. Yeah, but not many seniors really fall, right? Unfortunately, one in three senior adults fall each year. Even worse, those who have already fallen once are even more likely to fall again … Read more
Use it or lose it, as the adage goes. Our brains are no different, according to recent research. Our brains are stimulated by many of the same activities that we have all done from the time we were very young, such as reading, solving all kinds of puzzles and writing of any type. As our … Read more
Aging and Health in America 2013 was recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. This report is the sixth installment and is designed to be a snapshot of health in our country. It focuses on the aging health status of … Read more
Seniors are increasingly engaging with family and community using social media, which we believe will help them enjoy better health and lives as they age. This is especially true for those who choose to age in place, living independently in the homes of their choice. Growing numbers of our senior loved ones are using mobile … Read more
