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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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What Can You Do to Help a Family Member with Dementia Exhibiting Difficult Behavior?

Dementia changes how your elderly family member’s brain works, which means that there are some differences in how she expresses herself. That might mean that she starts wandering or that she starts to ask repetitive questions. In some people with dementia, that means that they say things that are unexpected or they start doing things...

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Three Ways Senior Care May Help Reduce the Risk of Serious Injuries

Serious injuries can happen to anyone of any age. And, they can happen at any time. When a person ages, they may face an increased risk of serious injuries. That might be from a slip and fall accident, something seemingly innocent and harmless, that can be devastating in its results. March is Brain Injury Awareness...

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Does Your Elderly Loved One Keep Questioning Everything? Here is What You Can Do.

One of the things that often happens with people who have dementia is repeated questioning. This is caused by the deterioration that is happening in the brain. If your elderly loved one is experiencing this, it can be tough on them. However, if the disease is more advanced, your loved one might not even know...

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Five Tips to Help Your Senior Cope with Hearing Loss

Whether your elderly family member realizes that she’s losing her hearing or not it can have a significant impact on her ability to interact with people around her. Let People Know She Has Trouble Hearing There may be people who encounter your senior who don’t realize that she has trouble hearing them. She may not...

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The Three Most Common Medicare Scams

Medicare is one of the best programs that the United States has come up with. It ensures that most people over sixty-five can obtain essential health services without going bankrupt. Unfortunately, Medicare is also susceptible to con artists who use stolen or misused information to make a quick buck. To protect your senior–and the Medicare...

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Getting Your Elderly Loved One Back Into Hobbies - Even if They Have Alzheimer’s Disease

Is your elderly loved one trying to find joy and purpose in their life? Many senior citizens start becoming bored with their life. If this is the case for your elderly loved one, you may want to try getting your elderly loved one back into hobbies. Even if your elderly loved one has Alzheimer’s disease,...

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Five Ways for Your Senior to Stay Motivated to Exercise

Motivation is something that almost everyone struggles with when it comes to exercise. For your senior, motivation might have been the one thing she felt like she has been consistently lacking. This might help. Encourage Her to Find Exercise She Loves If your senior is doing exercises that she loves to do, it’s not going...

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Puzzling Out a Brain Workout

Just like our bodies need to constantly be moving and exercising to stay in shape, the same is true about the brain, which is simply another muscle in the body. As our brains and body get older, they can also begin to fall into disrepair if we don’t get them exercised, so help your elderly...

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