Health
Welcome to our Health category, where we share news and opinions on what it means to live well in your senior years. We explore various topics to help you stay active and informed, from managing everyday wellness to understanding the latest trends in senior health. This is a place for discovery, learning, and conversation.
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Mental Exercise
Researchers have confirmed that your brain loses capacity without exercise just like muscles do. Mental stimulation is couple with computer important to seniors and this can include games and puzzles, reading something that is hard to understand and thinking it through, or taking a class. Computer Games Computer games can be stimulating, especially when they…
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Some Medications Decrease Energy
Some medications or combinations of medications can decrease energy. In her bestseller Another Country, Mary Pipher describes a daughter who has traveled over a thousand miles to visit her mother in the hospital. She finds her mother acting very strangely and the hospital personnel are about to place her in the Alzheimer’s wing. The young woman pulls…
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Older People Can Run Low On Energy
Feeling tired in later life can come as a surprise. One day we realize that we are putting things off for a day when we expect we will feel better and stronger. We think fatigue shows up because we are growing old. Tiredness in old age is a syndrome called Anergia. Actually, the internal warning bells…
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What Is Wellness Really?
The idea of “wellness” has been around for about fifty years and became popular in the 1970s. It is about “feeling well” and incorporates techniques for preventing illness. It is also about quality of life and happiness. How to have them, and how to keep them. We want our bodies, our minds, and our spiritual…
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Pfizer Announces Regenerative Medicine Research
Pfizer has announced the launch of a new research unit known as Pfizer Regenerative Medicine. This independent research unit will build on recent scientific progress in understanding the biology of stem cells and the opportunity that provides, to discover and develop a new generation of regenerative medicines for major medical needs. The new unit will…
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Researchers Are Learning How To Treat Aging
In the very recent past, Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine have taken a huge step forward. Even before the concept of a “Fountain of Youth,” bright minds studied and tried to research understand the aging process. Now, because there have been so many recent breakthroughs, knowledge has moved to a new level. Some of the new…
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Senior Men Need Food Storage Tips
Senior men can find themselves managing a kitchen and preparing food. Finding and learning to use kitchen tools can be a challenge and so can learning to store food. These are all things that elderly women have been doing for decades and now the men must learn. Sometimes, the Senior caregiver prepares food perfectly for…
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Recipes For the Older Palate
Seniors may need to learn new ways to cook and prepare food. Perhaps there is an illness requiring a special diet, or a senior finds himself or herself alone at mealtime. Learning to cook in new ways can be uplifting because we are doing something that represents accepting changes in our lives. There is more…
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Help Mom or Dad Eat Right
The American Cancer Society is promoting the Great American Health Challenge. There is a free age-based test to help you determine the best way to stay healthy and cancer free. After decades of research, the American Cancer Society is saying that the three best things to do for your health are EATING RIGHT, moving your…
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