Senior Dieting
Making sure that you are making healthy food choices are important at any age. However, it becomes even more vital as we age. Dieting can be a wonderful way to not only make sure you are a healthy weight, but also that you’re getting the best nutrition to keep you active and healthy. More than […]
Strengthening Your Bond
Life can be busy. People have busy schedules with work, children, and extracurricular activities. Finding time to spend with your family is very important to maintaining and strengthening your bond with them. Seniors that have frequent visits with family members have been shown to have higher levels of happiness and end up living longer. They […]
3 Ways to Combat Dementia Everyday
Dementia affects more than 50 million people worldwide with 10 million new cases every year. These are just the numbers of people that have been officially diagnosed, so the number may even be higher. Dementia is a not a specific disease, however, but rather it’s an overall term that describes a group of diseases that […]
The Burden of Family Caregivers
When a senior family member lives at home and has either fallen ill, or developed a cognitive impairment, like dementia, it often falls on the family of that person to help take care of them. This, unfortunately, can be a heavy burden to bear for family caregivers. Family caregivers, according to a recent study, can spend […]
