Seniors News

While senior caregiving responsibilities may change from day to day, some fundamental tasks remain the same when caring for an aging parent or senior loved one.When you employ a caregiver for yourself or an elderly loved one, you can expect their duties to include:<...

The primary need with aging is to be well, to maintain or, more importantly, to improve one's ability to function optimally. As you get older, this need translates into the ability to care for yourself – even with simple daily tasks like taking a shower or bath without assi...

There are probably functional changes in the brain that account for the slowing of responses and memory defects that are common in the elderly, and even small changes in the connections between brain cells could serve as the basis for marked behavioral changes, but behavioral ...

The elderly should aim to perform as much brain exercise as possible, but benefits can be seen in a short amount of time. Regularly playing games and working puzzles can significantly lessen and delay the mental degeneration caused by getting older, granting you few additional...

You can help people who are are at the later stages of their lives and do not know what to do with their time by doing fun activities with them.

Elder abuse is severely under-reported because the abused elderly find it extremely hard to tell someone, are generally ashamed, scared or perhaps unaware of the abuse or, in some cases, do not understand that someone they trust uses.

Eighty-one percent of senior care providers say they are focusing on social isolation in their patient populations. This proportion jumps to 88 percent in skilled nursing and long-term care facilities. Read more

Stretching keeps the muscles flexible, strong, and healthy, and we need that flexibility to maintain a range of motion in the joints. Without it, the muscles shorten and become tight. Then, when you call on the muscles for activity, they are weak and unable to extend all th...

Presently 96, Gray isn't quitting at any point in the near future. She walks several miles most days, and contends in around three 5Ks consistently. She thanks walking for keeping her physically sound.

In the time of Covid, we've made numerous changes in accordance with our every day lives. Quite possibly the most difficult things has been keeping up or in any event, setting up sound exercise propensities. A blast of alternatives have hit the ...