February has been designated as National Eating Disorders Awareness Month, and while you might think that eating disorders are limited to teenagers and young adults, the number of seniors who have eating disorders has steadily been increasing. In many cases, these are not new, emerging situations, but they actually developed during younger years and were […]
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Since Thyroid Disease Awareness Month is set for January 2023, this would be an appropriate time to take a few moments to have your thyroid checked, and to have any senior loved ones with you checked also. There are two different diseases that can affect the thyroid gland, and they often have opposite effects. Hypothyroidism is
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Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness, and that’s one of the reasons why January 2023 has been designated as National Glaucoma Awareness Month. Glaucoma is a disease that more frequently affects older people, although people of all ages can contract glaucoma. It is a particularly difficult disease to treat because there are often
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January of 2023 will be International Quality Of Life Month around the world, and that makes it a great time to consider just what the quality of life is for our senior loved ones. In many cases, senior parents live right in the homes of their adult children and receive care from them in their later
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Every year since 2000, March has been designated as National Colorectal Cancer Month, and the whole point of this designation is to help increase people’s awareness of the disease, so they can have it diagnosed early and treated while it’s still in a treatable phase. As with all forms of cancer, the earlier the disease
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Could Your Elderly Loved One Be at Risk for Stroke? Strokes present frightening possibilities to seniors and their loved ones. Ranging from mild to severe, strokes can cause a wide variety of symptoms including loss of speech, dizziness, weakness, headaches, and even death. The severity of the stroke depends on numerous factors, some of which
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Extra-Depth Shoes Make a Difference Older people who have foot pain associated with aging, diabetes, or changes to the structure of the foot can get relief from wearing the right kind of shoes. A new study based in Australia compared a group of seniors who wore extra deep, extra wide shoes marketed to people with foot pain
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Given that January is National Volunteer Blood Donor Month, now is a good time to start thinking about donating so as to help someone who is really in need of that life-giving blood. There is always a shortage of available blood because so much is needed to satisfy all the possible cases where blood is
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Caregivers Make All the Difference During a Hospital Stay When loved ones require a hospital stay, we expect the hospital to provide the best medical care possible to take care of their needs. What we don’t always consider, however, is how being alone in the hospital can affect a person’s emotional and mental state. For elderly
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The In-home Caregiver Sorts Through Some Dementia Theories What’s the “million-dollar question” in medicine today? One of the top few—actually worth far, far more than a million dollars—is what causes dementia. As scientists continue to work night and day to find a cause and a cure for this common disease of the elderly, the best we can
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