Elder Lifestyle Effects Health

Continuation from last week's blog entry...there are many healthy lifestyle habits which can assist our aging parents both physically and mentally. -- Get enough sleep. Sophisticated brain imagery is helping experts understand how important sleep is for warding off dementia....

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Lifestyle Choices Can Effect Cognitive Health

Came across this information recently. While rather basic, some of the following lifestyle choices have actually been found to lower the risk of dementia. Part of the message is simple...be good to yourself! -- Eat a healthy diet. Try to...

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Elderly Care and Workforce Productivity

The "sandwich" generation is currently juggling family, work, and caring for aging parents. There is simply not enough time in the day for everything, and providing care for family elders is very possibly the most time consuming. Home care agencies...

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Prepare for Elderly Transitions

Are you ready to care for your aging parents? According to a recent poll, almost half of our population have taken no steps, and made no plans, to care for elderly parents or family members. Take notice...the time will arrive...

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Family Burden: Can You Support Aging Parents?

Our nation’s elderly population is expected to double from 2012 to 2050. This population shift will have significant impact on seniors and family members in areas including housing, finance, insurance, and health care. While some of these costs (ex.,...

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Home Care Assistance for Depression

For many aging seniors, the continued ability to maintain lifestyle and self-sufficiency is a huge benefit -- not only for their continued health and functionality -- but to ease the worry for distanced family and friends who may live...

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Seniors and Winter Doldrums?

The holidays are over. And many seniors are left feeling a sense of letdown, now that the excitement of visitors, food, gifts, and family have departed. Now we all start having to deal with winter weather...snow, cold, and being...

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Discharge from Rehab or Hospital?

It is a fairly common expectation for seniors, as well as family members, to expect a return to their pre-hospital or pre-rehab health levels upon discharge from a rehab facility. Unfortunately, this is not practical. And not maintaining realistic...

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Transitioning Home From Acute Care

In the mind of a senior, many times they feel they are "better", or "cured" upon discharge from a hospital or rehabilitation facility. Especially when they arrive back home, where the surroundings are familiar and they can return to...

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Open Enrollment Period: Affordable Care Insurance

Re-post from the Social Security Administration... The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides Americans with better health security by expanding coverage, lowering healthcare costs, guaranteeing more choice, and enhancing the quality of care for all Americans. Everyone is entitled to affordable...

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