Discover essential tips for flu prevention for seniors at home. Learn about disinfection, ventilation, hand hygiene, and the flu vaccine. Trust Senior Helpers Visalia for expert support. Stay flu-free!

As we age and move into our retirement years, we’re bound to be more focused on our health, which often means prescription medications, vitamins, and supplements. Effectively managing our medications will help ensure that the intended effect is achieved for treating our symptoms or health conditions. It’s also an important way to protect our health and safety, given that over or under dosing on medications can have dangerous consequences. Following the tips and best practices for safe medication management will help you to avoid some of the most common medication mistakes for older adults.

Everyone feels blue or down in the dumps from time to time, but for seniors, you may be working to muster up a smile or shake off the blahs more often than you may have used to. This may be unpleasant, but it’s not necessarily unusal. Our senior years are bound to be filled with lots of changes, and not all of them are going to be welcome. Loss of loved ones, declining health and mobility, and loneliness are all common complaints among seniors. But fortunately there are many natural ways and things you can to do to boost your mood and enhance your enjoyment of life.

Body Mass Indexes that fall into either the overweight or obese category have been increasing steadily over the past few decades, reaching the point that being overweight or obese has reached epidemic numbers worldwide. Adults over the age of sixty now account for about one-third of the obese population.

Navigate the challenges of end-of-life care planning with our comprehensive guide. Initiate crucial conversations, understand advanced directives, and explore palliative care for your loved ones' comfort. Read on. 

Fraud is a growth industry online, very much alive and well and seemingly omnipresent on the internet. It gets shown to us in ads, gets sent directly to our email inboxes, and comes up sometimes when a stranger contacts us on social media. Many fraudsters and con artists also tend to regard seniors as easy marks for a quick buck. According to research and data, seniors are indeed more likely to fall victim to online scams, with a 47% increase of fraud and identity theft involving seniors between 2019 and 2020.

For many people, by the time they reach their twilight years of their mid-70s, they are likely to have developed one or more complex health conditions, or had at least one health incident. If you have a senior parent or another loved one who has suffered from declining health and who needs more care, understanding the Ms of geriatrics will help you to better understand and meet their needs and strengthen your relationship.

This blog post provides adult children and caregivers with a helpful guide on how to meaningfully broach the issue of breast cancer with seniors, both men and women, who may show reluctance to discuss it.

The relationship between grandparents and their grandchildren is a unique bond that enriches the lives of both parties. Here are ways to maintain these bonds.

This blog post provides efficient and budget-friendly strategies for your back-to-school shopping. We will cover time-saving online shopping tips and ways to establish spending limits with your kids.

From political drama, the recent COVID pandemic, rapidly changing technology and norms, and more, there’s no doubt that these modern times can be stressful. For older adults who may have more difficulty navigating news stories and technology like video chatting, the impact can be even worse.

The popular TV show The Brady Bunch showed American audiences an idealized version of a perfectly blended family, with six children, two parents, and a housekeeper. Despite the fact that each parent was only genetically related to three of the kids, they functioned as a family and showed us weekly lessons about love and what it means to be a family. But in real life, things don’t always go so smoothly, and one question is what would have happened to Mike and Carol Brady after the six kids moved out, they entered their senior years, and found themselves needing childcare?

With the Summer season in full swing, many of us are making travel plans to get away for a while, either for leisure or to spend time visiting with family and friends. This is a good thing, getaways are important for our physical and our mental health. And traveling offers the change to create lasting memories and create meaningful connections with the people around us. But if you, or one of your loved ones traveling with you, has a current heart condition or a history of heart problems, you may find yourself wondering just what is safe when it comes to journeys by planes, trains, and automobiles. It’s important to be well prepared and informed to ensure a safe journey for everyone involved. Here are some important things to keep in mind as you create your plans for summer travel.

The experience of loving someone deeply and profoundly, only to one day have to suffer through the loss of them, is something that everyone under the sun is likely to experience at one point or another throughout life. After all, death is the one thing that all of us are certain to go through someday.

If you're a senior who finds themselves housebound due to health issues or mobility limitations, there are numerous creative and practical ways for you to stay engaged with friends, family, and your community from the comfort of your home. Discover some of the possibilities.

Many people tend to view retiring as though they’re looking at a spreadsheet of finances. They do the math equation of how much money do you have, when do you want to retire, and how much money you’ll need for that, and the answer is to save as much as you need each year to have that amount when you get to the projected retirement age. And then once that question is answered, the goal is ultimately to simply never work again, forever.

Arthritis is a painful and debilitating condition that happens to be common among older adults. It has been estimated that at least 92.1 million adults currently living in the United States have either an official diagnosis of arthritis from their healthcare provider, or they report having joint pain and other symptoms that are consistent with a diagnosis of arthritis. While the chronic pain that is associated with arthritis would be a troubling enough issue on its own, arthritis also has a very profound and detrimental effect on the quality of life for those who suffer from it, especially older adults.

It seems that these days, just about everyone has a smartphone in their pocket, which means everyone just about everywhere has a camera on them wherever they go. It’s no wonder that it has become second nature for most people to whip out their phone the moment they see something interesting so they can take a picture or video. But a number of experts have said that relying on our devices to do all the remembering might result in us returning from vacation with actually fewer memories of the sights we saw.

As the summer approaches, much of the country has been suffering under blistering heat. Record temperatures, heat waves that last for weeks on end, and more have been a reality for much of the population. High temperatures are especially dangerous for older adults, and dehydration is one of the biggest factors in experiencing heat related illness.

In this blog post, we'll guide you through the process of picking the perfect family- and senior-friendly vacation spots, ensuring a fantastic trip for all your loved ones.

This blog post shines a light on the biggest health and safety hazards that affect seniors gardening in the summer and discusses practical tips you can use to mitigate these risks.

Everyone has heard the adage that couples shouldn’t go to bed angry. What you may not know is that this advice can apply to your other relationships as well. Research done by Oregon State University found that the emotional response after any unresolved argument can be stressful.

Ever since the coronavirus pandemic began and brought the idea of disease prevention to the front of our minds, many people have been wondering about what extra steps they can take to protect themselves. Though we have vaccines for the COVID-19 virus and for seasonal influenza, there are always extra measures and tools at our disposal. We learned during the pandemic that distancing, masking, and frequent hand washing and disinfection protocols can lower our risk of contracting diseases of any kind. But many of us are also wondering what we can do to boost the strength of our immune system and help our body’s natural line of defense. For seniors, this is a greater challenge due to the changes brought about from age.

Here's what you need to know to help you plan an enjoyable, stress-free getaway for the whole family, including your beloved seniors.