Senior Health
Home Care for Seniors – A Caregiver’s To-Do List
When you’re a caregiver, you have to expect the unexpected, especially when you’re taking care of an elderly patient. There are more than 50 million caregivers providing home care for the weak and elderly during any given year. To make things more hectic, only 25% of all U.S households are involved in care giving, therefore, […]
Senior Sleep Cycles – Keep Healthy!
Sleeping problems are common among senior people as various chronic diseases affect the quality of their sleep. Respiratory disorders, arthritis, cardiovascular problems only get worse with age making it difficult to fall asleep. A lot of people believe that sleep disorders are normal effects of aging. This belief prevents many seniors from getting adequate […]
Devices to Prevent Wandering In Dementia and Help Find Lost Victims
The NHS talks about how electronic devices can be used to help protect seniors with dementia from getting lost.
Coconut Oil Alzheimer’s Disease Cure?
Coconut oil cures Alzheimers? While we’d all love to believe that this hideous disease could be easily cured with a natural, cheap and yummy food … the eviedence is sorely lacking! I think this article on Snopes sums it up well. There’s isn’t any credible evidence to support the claim. Stories of AD victims who’ve […]
Not too old for Clinical Trials?
It is not news to anyone that we are all living longer. Life expectancy in the United States increased by 30 years during the 20th Century and 25 of those years were attributed to advances in medicines and the treatment of disease in older people. Life is now the survival of those who live in […]