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Heart Health Awareness Particularly Important for Senior Women

February has arrived and with it, the annual Heart Health Awareness campaign. This month of awareness serves as an excellent reminder for everyone to pay close attention to their heart health, but most particularly senior women. My Mom was diagnosed with heart disease nearly two years ago, and it has completely changed her way of...

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Fun Family Baking with Seniors Living Alone

Multi-tasking is a way of life for me. Between my professional responsibilities as a small business owner, and the amazing-but-hectic family life I share with my dear husband, children and grandchildren, I am constantly shifting gears and changing directions every single day. That’s why when I realized I could recognize Great American Pies Month and...

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20 Facts about Senior Loneliness and Isolation You May Not Know

Even though I live, work and play in The Sunshine State, I see many shades of gray days when seniors are lonely and isolated. The sun can be shining its brightest, but the forecast for these folks always seems a sustained “mostly cloudy.” One of my referral partners, aPlaceforMom, published the following national statistics a few...

When Seniors Suffer the Loss of a Pet

Over Thanksgiving with family, a comment from one of my cousins at a holiday meal many years ago came to mind when I saw him: “When I die, I want to come back as Grandma’s dog!” For as long as I can remember, our maternal grandmother always seemed to have a dog. Whether out at...

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More Data Needed to Help Seniors with Breast Cancer

I was reading an article recently in which I learned there are too few volunteers for clinical trials and studies to better help seniors with breast cancer. As I read further, I discovered the astounding fact that some studies have age cut-offs and some are limited to “healthier adults” with the disease. Wait. What? This...

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Extend Suicide Prevention Efforts to Seniors

A 74 year-old man had a loving wife, a grown son, a beautiful adult daughter, and a handsome grandson, yet he was depressed. No one realized how troubled the man was, as he appeared to be his same-old, grumpy self, hunkered-down in his easy chair watching old movies on TV and grumbling about stupid commercials....

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See to it that Seniors get Annual Eye Exams

There are lots of adorable children in vision-related ads lately due to the back-to-school frenzy. However, after the optometrist’s office clears of all the youngsters, it’s very important that we see to it that seniors get annual eye exams. I would venture a guess that most of us have parents and grandparents whose hearing and...

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Respite Care for Family Caregivers is Essential

I had the opportunity to meet a couple recently who are truly struggling physically, mentally, and emotionally. They are both alcoholics, admittedly. The wife has completely given up on life and is bedridden. The husband has done his very best to tend to all of his wife’s needs to the point of utter exhaustion. To...

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Importance of Nutrition for Aging Adults

Importance of Nutrition for Aging Adults While cleaning up after dinner one night, I saw a medical segment on the CBS Evening News that caught my attention. A study published in the American Heart Association journal reported that multi-vitamins, minerals, and supplements were ineffective at promoting heart health. Most seniors I know take these over-the-counter...

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