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What Risk Factors for Heart Disease Affect Your Senior?

Heart disease and everything that comes with it can be a scary topic for your senior. But understanding her possible risk factors and helping her to avoid heart illnesses helps her to take action now. Increasing Age It’s frustrating, but simply getting older can have a huge impact on whether your senior develops heart disease...

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What Foods Can You Get to Increase the Fiber in Your Elderly Loved One’s Diet?

Does your elderly loved one need to add more fiber to their diet? Some of the reasons they may need to do this are low energy, constipation, high cholesterol levels, or needing to lose weight. By eating more fiber, your elderly loved one can make all these things better. Adding Vegetables to Their Diet One...

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Four Ways to Help Your Senior to Achieve Her Goals

February is International Expect Success Month, which is technically a business holiday. It was started as a holiday to remind people to look within to find hidden elements that could lead to success, which is actually a great mindset for everyone, including your senior. Helping your elderly family member to expect success can remind her...

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Best Tips to Help the Elderly Manage Diabetes

Having diabetes can be extremely difficult, especially for an elderly person. Many senior citizens get bored in retirement. When they are bored or stressed, they may start eating out of their emotions. When they do that, they may choose unhealthy foods that trigger a diabetes/insulin issue. If your elderly loved one has diabetes, it is...

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What Does Good Hygiene Mean for Your Senior?

Have you and your senior talked about hygiene and what you expect for her in terms of good hygiene? If not, it might be time for you to have that conversation with each other and get some ground rules in place. Bathe a Few Times a Week Bathing can easily become a battleground between you...

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Can Certain Foods Help a Senior Lower Stress Levels?

You may know about the foods that can cause a senior to be stressed more, like sugar and alcohol, but do you know about the foods that can help lower stress? It is true, some foods can help calm a senior down when they feel stressed or anxious. Instead of turning to the heavily processed...

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Five Possible Cures for Bad Breath

At first blush, your senior’s breath might seem as if it’s just a hygiene issue. But it truly is more than that. Sure, bad breath might be about your senior not brushing as often, but there could be other causes so it’s important to know what’s going on. Encourage More Water Intake Not drinking enough...

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Shingles and Home Care: How Can Personal Care at Home Help?

Does your elderly loved one have shingles? This is condition that many senior citizens get. If they do have this condition, it is very important they are receiving proper medical care. Your elderly loved one’s doctor can create a treatment plan based on the severity of symptoms they have. It may be beneficial to have...

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Exercising With Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s is a nervous disorder that usually comes with shakes and tremors. These tremors can make it hard for seniors to do the basic household things they once used to do all on their own. 24-hour home care can help a senior struggling with Parkinson’s by providing help. They may help run the household, do...

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