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Helping Seniors Eat Healthy Meals

Maintaining a nutritious diet helps seniors to be healthier overall. It also helps them to keep chronic conditions under better control and can help to improve their quality of life. Helping seniors to eat healthier can be complicated, though. Seniors have specific preferences, but they also may face some challenges related to their ability to...

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Build a Family Cookbook for Future Generations

Do you need a fun hobby your parents, your siblings, and you can all work on together? Have you considered saving important family recipes in a cookbook you create together? Collect the Recipes As you start to plan your family cookbook, think of the recipes that you have stories to go with them. You can...

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How Much Help Does Your Senior Need?

One of the challenges that you face as a caregiver is determining how much and what kinds of help your senior might need. This list can help. Support Does your senior live far away from everyone else in the family? That happens more often than it did in the past and it can be a...

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Produce, Fiber, and Protein - Three Keys to Healthy Eating

The typical person’s diet is not ideal. Many Americans eat foods that are too high in sugar, salt, and saturated fat. If you’re trying to get your parents and yourself to make healthier meal choices, you should focus on three items: produce, fiber, and protein. The Building Blocks of a Healthy Diet Fiber is essential....

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Five Ways to Beat Stress Eating as a Caregiver

Stress eating is usually a mindless form of eating, where you’re snacking all day long on usually less healthy food choices. It might seem to help in the moment, but is it really? Look for Other Ways to Manage Your Stress Stress eating isn’t an effective way to manage stress because usually you’re eating foods...

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