Category Archives: senior care

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Coping With The Common & Stressful Behaviors of Dementia

Republished from health.harvard.edu Dementia poses many challenges, both for people struggling with it and for those close to them. It can be hard to witness and cope with common behaviors that arise from illnesses like Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, or frontotemporal dementia. Caring for a person who has dementia may be frustrating, confusing, or upsetting […]

  • Posted on: Jun 2 2023
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April Is Stress Awareness Month

Why is Stress Awareness So Important? Stress can be extremely difficult to cope with and can seriously impact our lives. It can also cause and/or aggravate health problems. Every April, healthcare professionals from across the country join forces to increase public awareness about not only the causes, but also the treatments for the growing stress […]

  • Posted on: Apr 12 2023
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How Daylight Savings Can Impact Your Sleep

Daylight Savings began yesterday as we all lost an hour to gain more daylight time. How the time changes actually affects you depends on your own personal health, sleep habits, and lifestyle.  Moving our clocks in either direction changes the principal time cue — light — for setting and resetting our 24-hour natural cycle, or circadian […]

  • Posted on: Mar 13 2023
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Gardening Boosts Mental Health & May Reduce Cancer Risk

New research suggests that gardening offers various health benefits, including a reduced risk of chronic diseases like cancer. A new study shows that people who work in community gardens receive various health benefits that may help reduce the risk of chronic diseases like cancer and can improve mental health. The randomized controlled trial involved 145 […]

  • Posted on: Jan 13 2023
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Dry January – Ways To Observe & Have Fun

Alcohol often goes hand in hand with socializing. There’s a sailing day with friends. Dinner parties. A champagne toast at a wedding. A mimosa at brunch for Football.  But there are lots of reasons why you might take a break in the new year and observe Dry January which is becoming a thing. Here are some […]

  • Posted on: Jan 6 2023
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Treating Balance Disorders in Seniors

Balance disorders and falling are some of the worst ailments that seniors have to deal with. Statistics show that almost 9 percent of seniors over the age of 65 suffer from balance disorders of some kind. The treatment of such balance disorders in seniors need to be taken very seriously because a single fall in […]


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Fatigue and Depression in the Elderly

Fatigue and depression are symptoms which are often noticed in the elderly. Fatigue in the elderly can be caused because of multiple reasons and is often indicative of some fundamental psychiatric or medical illness like heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease or any number of other medical conditions. But very often fatigue cannot be ascribed […]


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Healthy Lifestyle Choices for Seniors

Aging is a part of our cycle of life which is inevitable. In another 25 years roughly 20% of the American population will be in the ‘elder’ category. This is a phenomenon which is taking place in much of the world where lifespans are increasing leading to an older population. Part of the reason is […]