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How to Help Seniors Prevent, Understand, & Cope With Hearing Loss
Age-related hearing loss affects many seniors. Here’s how to help seniors prevent further hearing loss and cope healthily. About 1 in 3 adults between 65 and 74 years old experiences hearing loss. Difficulty hearing or making out sounds can put…
5 Things You Need to Know About Stroke
May is stroke awareness month and it highlights the importance of learning about a silent killer that strikes 800,000 Americans and takes 140,000 lives each year. What you know about stroke may save your life or the life of a…
Top Tips for Traveling with Seniors
For seniors, travel can be especially challenging or risky. Use these top tips to make senior travel fun and safe. As adults age, their family members tend to act as long-distance caregivers. The average distance a long-distance caregiver lives from…
A Honeycomb of Bones: Understanding Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a disease that prevents bone tissue from regenerating and as a result, the bones become very brittle and break easily. For people with osteoporosis, something as simple as a cough or sneeze could cause a bone to break.…
The Mediterranean Diet and Why it Works
There are more diets than you can count, and each one promises to help you lose weight successfully. However, few actually deliver on the promise. There are diets based on eating only plant based foods. Others promote eating only protein…
The Need for Care
As the elderly population increases, more consideration is given to providing for the needs of the aging. Families and caregivers juggle family responsibilities and careers, while trying to provide a sustainable existence for themselves and their older loved ones. Too…
