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Stretching Tips to Help Your Mom With Balance and Flexibility

Something simple like a fall can be catastrophic to an older adult. A hip fracture can make it hard to move around well. A surgery requires time and therapy to bounce back from. Some older adults never regain full mobility after a fall. Improved balance and flexibility helps lower the risk of a fall. Your...

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What Activities Might Your Elderly Loved One Enjoy the Most?

Are you trying to help your elderly loved one find activities that they will enjoy? It is important for your loved one to keep active and engage in activities. Whether they are trying to start up with an old hobby or find something new and exciting, you can help them out. You can help your...

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Four Ways to Get a Handle on Caregiving

As a caregiver, there are going to be times when you feel like you don’t know what’s going on or what to do next. Having a plan is crucial, both for those times and for all of the other times when you’re just dealing with the next thing on your list. Regardless of which scenario...

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What Categories of Exercise Should Your Senior Consider?

If your elderly family member is ready to start exercising, there are some specific categories of movement that she might want to look into. It’s always a good idea for your senior to talk to her doctor about exercise before she starts a new movement practice, because some of the things she might want to...

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Why Might Your Senior Be Shuffling More Often?

While you’re a caregiver you’re going to notice some things changing for your senior. One such change might be that she moves from her normal way of walking to a more shuffling method. This is a bad sign, because it means that there’s something else happening for her that you need to investigate. She’s Experiencing...

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How to Take Care of Your Elderly Loved One in Your Own Home

As your family member gets older, there will come a time to decide if they need more assistance with daily chores, financial issues, or other matters. If you have been pondering over this decision, it might be a good time to ask yourself a question. Is it possible for you to care for your elderly...

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Tips for Preventing Heat Stroke in the Elderly

People over the age of 65 are more likely to suffer from heat stroke during warm weather than younger people are. One of the reasons seniors get heat stroke more easily is that they don’t adjust to temperature changes as well as they did when they were younger. Older adults also more commonly have chronic...

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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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