How’s that smile? Good dental health is important for everyone, but it’s especially important as we age, because how you care for your teeth influences your overall health. In fact, good oral health is as important as good heart health.
Conversations With Elderly Parents
Sometimes it’s difficult to have a conversation, because it’s not always easy to find something to talk about. But there is one sure fire way to get them talking and give them real pleasure.
Communicating With Elderly
It’s important to maintain good relationships with our friends or parents who are growing older…we want to maintain those relationships, and most often it requires good communication. But it isn’t always easy to communicate effectively with an elderly adult.
Lie To Someone With Dementia
You need to ask yourself, not only, is it right to lie to someone with dementia, but does it even help?
Activities For People With Dementia
None of us want to just sit and stare all the time, that why it’s important for seniors with dementia to have activities throughout the day that they can enjoy, be kept busy with and feel successful with, just like you and I do. What does your senior do all day?
Prevent Senior Heat Stroke
With summer here, and temperatures rising, (especially here in Arizona), it’s a good time to talk about preventing heat stroke, especially in seniors.
Senior Fitness
Sure, it’s inevitable that as we age, we have a tendency to slow down a bit, our bodies are getting older, but that doesn’t mean we should stop using them, a sedentary lifestyle is not a healthy or fulfilling lifestyle…
Common Senior Infections
We all live with infections, the common cold, the flu, bronchitis, and many others. And for most of us, those infections last for a few uncomfortable days and then they’re gone. But when a senior is attacked by infection, it’s much more serious
Understanding Senior Health
In today’s world, people are living longer than ever before…but are they living healthier? Living longer isn’t such a great deal if you don’t have your health.
Senior Safety
Unfortunately, well over 2 million elderly are involved in accidents in the home each year, many resulting in death, and the majority of them being attributed to falling. Here are some ideas to help make the home “senior safe”.