Surviving a heart attack can result in its own complications, particularly among the elderly. Read on to find out more about heart attacks in seniors and how this can impact long-term health and care.
Atrial fibrillation and blood clots can be difficult conditions to live with - especially for seniors. Here are some tips to help manage and prevent this condition.
The winter season can be a special time for many seniors, allowing them to reset and relax. Learn how seniors can stay safe when there is snow and ice on the ground.
Winter sports can be a great way for seniors to stay active. However, it's important to take precautions to keep them safe. Read on!
When choosing a gift for your senior parent, friend, or even yourself or partner, consider giving gifts of technology. Technology has become less complicated and can make all our lives easier.
Keeping the brain challenged and active is important to the health and well-being of people throughout their lives. That means that it is just as important to exercise your senior's brain, as it is to exercise their body. Various avenues such as puzzles, card games, and memory games can help keep your senior's brain, engaged, challenged, and thriving. Below is a list of fun puzzles and games that can help seniors improve their brain health and their overall mental capacity and function.
Often, seniors with arthritis or limited hand mobility can prove difficult to buy gifts for. Over time, their ability to engage in many of the hobbies they enjoyed before they developed these conditions may decrease. Finding a gift for seniors with arthritis or limited hand mobility can be easier with these strategies:
Living with an adult child can be an exciting experience for a senior parent. It presents an opportunity for the children to take care of their parents as the parents did to them when they were young. This also helps maintain and strengthen the parental bond and love. On the flip side, an adult child may not be able to adequately provide all the care a senior needs due to other responsibilities. At some point, seniors might need the services of a third-party caregiver. However, the conversation about hiring a third-party caregiver can be sensitive and uncomfortable. Parents may not know how to approach the subject as they don't want their adult children to feel as if they have failed in their responsibility to care for them.
The elderly are disproportionately impacted by weather-related falls and slips. Here are five home improvements to make it safer.
As the seasons change, so does the quality of the air in your home. Here's how to improve indoor air quality as the weather changes
Sometimes humans may feel lonely and completely detached from others. Here are 5 strategies for fighting loneliness and isolation.
As the weather becomes colder, your home needs winterizing. Here are 6 winterizing tasks for seniors (and some for professionals).
It is common to hear from family members and companions that you should lower your concentration on the elderly ones when it is at the expense of your own self. However, this is always easier said than done. The first step in taking care of yourself and preventing burnout is to establish clear boundaries, limits, and companionship.
Here are some basic things that have proven helpful for Lexington caregivers.
Over the years, the human species has always worked together, interacted, and relied on each other on a day-to-day basis to survive. This is how various societies keep moving forward; The community you grow in actually even shapes your personality. However, with time, the risks of isolation often increase as one becomes more immobile and loses their companions and peers. This has emotional consequences, but one rarely notices how it also influences an older person's physical health. To combat this, address the isolation by helping your Lexington elderly loved one find new ways to increase their social interaction.
But what should you do if your loved one is an introvert? This post outlines how you can address such a case. But first, how important is social interaction to an elderly individual?