Elderly Care
Macrobiotic Diet Helps Balance Your Diet And Your Life: Proven To Be Effective
By Matt Smiths · 17 years ago
A macrobiotic devotee believes that anything related to foods such as its quality is a major factor that affects one’s life and being, far more than what it implies. Foods are then thought to be ...
Hay Diet Treats Chemical Condition Of The Body: The Doctor’s Approach
By Matt Smiths · 17 years ago
In 1911, Dr. William Howard Hay made known about food combining. After practicing medicine for 16 long years, Dr. Hay developed some forms of illnesses like high-blood pressure, dilated heart, and Brights disease or more ...
Caregiver Hiring Strategies and Tips
By Carl Knowlan · 17 years ago
Caregiver hiring is one of the most important tasks you will ever face in your life. Your loved one's well-being depends upon your success in hiring the appropriate person or team.
It is important to ...
The Elderly Need Dental Care Too
By Joel Williams · 17 years ago
While 4 out of 10 adults over the age of 65 still lose their teeth, many more are now retaining at least some of their natural teeth into their final years. Before the full impact ...
The Increasingly Popular Transport Wheelchairs
By Kirk Peterson · 17 years ago
Walking disabled people are more fortunate nowadays. While in the past they always have felt incapacitated and immobile, nowadays, they are provided with more and better means to roam and move around. With the development ...
The Advent of Wheelchairs
By Kirk Peterson · 17 years ago
In the year 1881, the first modern wheelchair was unveiled in Europe. Since then, people with walking disabilities have found hope. Even if they would not be able to walk again, they would be able ...
Ageing Gracefully
By Kim Morton · 17 years ago
Ageing gracefully is about RESISTING: Gravity Fear Boredom Judgment Pessimism Victimization Age gracefully is about EMBRACING: Stimulation Accommodation Flexibility Adapting Making Choices Gratitude Joy Possibilities Growing old is chock full of challenges and opportunities. With ...
Aging Wisely: 10 Tips for Caring for Aging Parents
By Shannon Martin · 17 years ago
More than 50 million people provide care for a chronically ill, disabled or aged family member or friend during any given year. Individuals caring for their aging parents face challenges on a multitude of fronts: ...
Is there life after 60
By Judith Hanson · 17 years ago
Is there life after 60?
For some people approaching their retirement date is a cause for celebration - this is what they have been looking forward to for the last 40 years! But for many ...
The Changing Priorities of 21st Century Retirement Living - Providing Choice Will Be Key
By Sherry Wagner · 17 years ago
Skiing trips instead of shuffleboard, laptops instead of feet on tabletops: Today’s retirees are playing and living under a much different set of priorities than previous generations. Words like choice, flexibility, fit and active are ...
Compassion and Health Care
By Kent Holden · 17 years ago
I suddenly found myself in the care giver role caring for two elderly relatives. This was a world I would soon discover, I knew nothing about. My area of expertise has always been with children ...
A Caregiver's Manual for Being Prepared for That Call in the Night
By Katana Abbott · 17 years ago
As women, we are often expected to fill multiple roles: that of a loving mother, career woman, supportive wife or partner, volunteer in the community and, at some point for many, a new role—that of ...
Long Term Health Care Insurance – Is It Really Worth It?
By Kate Williams · 17 years ago
There are many kinds of insurance, so many it almost makes your head spin. There is homeowners insurance, car insurance, renters insurance, life insurance, disability insurance. Heck, the truly cautious can even buy earthquake insurance ...
Why Arizona Ranks High Among Retirees
By Cecilia Valenzuela · 17 years ago
If you have heard that Arizona was a popular state to retire in, you are most certainly correct. Arizona ranks high when it comes to retirement. In fact, Arizona was actually the first state where ...
The New Retirement Attitude: Today's 60 is Yesterday's 40
By Lin Schreiber · 17 years ago
If I say "retirement," what are the first five words that come to your mind? If they are "leisure," "relaxation," "comfort," "golf" and "old age," you're thinking about yesterday's retirement. This is the 21st century, ...
Assisted Living - Way to Stay Independent !
By Claira Fernandes · 17 years ago
As Time goes on, it leaves a lasting imprint on us, physically, if not mentally, only to wake and find one fine day, while the body is weak, the mind is only too willing! However, ...
How The Medicare Doughnut Hole Is Making American Seniors Sick
By Jeremy Cockerill · 17 years ago
In 2003, Congress passed The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act into law. The crafting and passing of this bill was highly influenced by lobbyists from both the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. These groups ...
How To Stay Young and Grow Old Well
By Dave Hackbart · 17 years ago
Common Sense Tips for Growing Old Slowly and Gracefully
Anyone over 50 can probably remember what "old" people were 30 or 40 years ago. Usually they were people over 50! Most boomers no longer consider ...
Eight Ways to Make a House Elder-Friendly
By Sam Chapman · 17 years ago
If you are selling a house over the next 10 or more years you need to know about a huge trend. Many buyers are retiring. Is the house you are selling fit for an aging ...
Seniors Living Longer - Being Heallthy and Active Your Entire Life
By Larry Viles · 17 years ago
The focus currently on the various possible ways to extend our life spans may be off-target, in one sense. The real desired goal is to extend the length of time that we maintain a healthful ...