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4 Tips For Understanding and Preventing Dehydration in Seniors
Dehydration is a serious issue for anyone, but it can present special challenges in the older community. Not only are seniors at a higher risk of becoming dehydrated, but the complications can have serious impacts on a senior's health. Dehydration - What Is It?...
Home Care vs. Nursing Home – 5 Important Questions to Ask
You know that help with your senior loved one is needed. But beyond that, you're unsure of how to determine the level of care that is needed. Is aging-in-place a desire or even a possibility? What options are out there and how do you decide between home care, nursing...
7 Skin Care Tips For Healthy Skin
As we come full on into summer, skin care is on our minds. Regardless of age, skin care is important, but as we grow older, it becomes even more so. The cumulative effects of a life well lived in years of sun can't be undone, but good skin care can start at any age....
Strategies For Making Friends After 60
Friends are critical to so many parts of our lives. Especially as we age, friendship and companionship impacts our mental health and also our physical wellness. The challenges of making friends, especially after the last year and a half of semi-isolation is made...
5 Insights Into Incontinence
In life, there are things we just wish we never had to discuss. Medical issues, finances and uncomfortable topics such as incontinence. But did you know that over 75% of women over 65 have incontinence issues? And it's not just the girls! In general, more than 50% of...
9 Senior Volunteer Opportunities You Haven’t Thought Of
Now that many of us have received our vaccines and are working to put the recent health crisis behind us, it's time to think about returning to activities that we love. Activities that have an impact locally or globally, like volunteering. If we're healthy and want to...
5 Items Caregivers Should Know About Arthritis
Most of us are aware of what arthritis is in some form. We usually think of sore joints or that old injury that "flares up" from time to time. Everyone seems to have a story about someone they know who can tell that it's going to rain by how their joints feel....
Downsizing – 12 Important Tips
Often times when people think of downsizing, we think of things like "tiny homes" or empty nesters who are left with a large home after their children leave. Other than consistently living in a sustainable way, retirement or shortly after retirement is a great time to...
39 Great Ways to Have Fun This Summer
Summer is quickly approaching and we've all been looking forward to good weather! Combined with restrictions over the last year and a half, we're also hungry to get outside, see our friends and spend some time...just having fun! The National Institute on Aging...