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Tips for Improving Your Heart Health

Your heart is where your life is! A healthy heart beats between 60-90 beats per minute and that may slow down a little as we age. That means your heart could eat more than 140,000 times each day! It’s crazy to think that the organ we depend on for the very breath of life is...

Five Ways You Can Tell Your Senior Might Be Undernourished

If your senior isn’t eating enough or she’s eating lots of junk foods, she’s likely under-nourished. How can you tell for sure, though? Her Skin Isn’t Looking Well You can tell a lot about your senior’s health by looking at her skin. Skin that isn’t getting what it needs can be dull or flaky and...

Determining When Your Senior Loved One Should Stop Driving

It is never easy to have a conversation with a senior loved one that has to do with giving up the keys to the car for good. After all, driving represents independence and freedom for most people, so it can be really difficult to know when the time is right to ask your loved one...

Helping Seniors with a High Protein Diet

Did you know that a diet high in protein is incredibly important for seniors? Protein is particularly important right before medical procedures or surgery and can help the healing time during an acute illness when the body doesn’t digest protein as easily. For our seniors, they especially need high-protein diets to maintain good bone density...

Debunking the Myths of Falling for Seniors

Are you one of the millions of Americans who think that tumbles and falls are just par for the course in older adults? The truth is, falling can be devastating for seniors and should be prevented at all costs. It’s not normal to fall and no matter how old you are, there are things you...

Can You Help Your Senior Prevent Bruising?

Bruises are fairly commonplace, but when your senior suddenly starts sprouting a few at a time, you might need to look into what is happening. Taking some simple steps now can help you to prevent some of the bruises that your aging family member might be picking up as a normal part of her daily...

What Do You Need to Know about Low Vision?

Low Vision Awareness Month is a great time to focus on your senior’s eyes and how well she can see. Low vision itself is a condition in which your aging family member may have corrective lenses, medication, or even past surgeries, but she still can’t see well. Here’s what you need to know about low vision. It’s...

Ototoxicity and Your Senior’s Medications

Medications that are ototoxic are ones that harm hearing in the people who take them. You might not even realize that your senior is taking ototoxic medications until her hearing is affected. Ototoxicity Is an Amazingly Common Side Effect Ototoxicity is a known side effect in a startling amount of medications. Many of these medications might be ones...

Losing Caregiver Guilt and Living at Peace

If you are feeling a bit guilty when it comes to taking care of your older loved ones, you are not alone. Negative emotions are quite common as you walk the caregiving process, and it’s important to know what to do with those emotions as they come up. On top of feeling negative emotions, it’s...