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Category Archives: health and wellness
Your Aging Parents: Tips for Staying Well (at Home) in a Changing Climate
Note of disclaimer: Coronavirus is an ever-evolving world health situation and I am not a physician. My advice is based on the most current research from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of … Continue reading
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Caring for Your Aging Parents: How to Decrease Your Feelings of Isolation
One of the most difficult and stressful jobs you’re ever likely to face is one for which you don’t get paid. This work can be so all encompassing as to wreak havoc on your paying employment, as well as on … Continue reading
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6 Tips for Dealing with Your Aging Parent’s Speedy Remarriage
Few situations tend to bring about as many strong feelings, often banding adult children together against parent, as when your widowed, aging mom or dad decides to remarry—especially after a relatively short period of time since the death of your … Continue reading
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Suicide Among the Elderly: Signs of Danger
In life’s sometimes painful progression, we, as adult children, expect to outlive our parents. This is the circle of life. One day, natural causes or an ongoing illness will lay claim to our elderly parents. Yet there’s something we don’t … Continue reading
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Your Aging Parents: Reframing your Focus to Find the Bright Side of Caretaking
The job of caretaking your aging parents is one that is bittersweet. Aging is rarely kind to any living being, bringing with it a host of ailments, both emotional and physical; and yet, learning to refocus the grief or fear … Continue reading
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Your Aging Parents: 8 Simple Brain Exercises to Improve Memory or Slow Down Its Loss
We all know that physical exercise is important to our bodies’ wellbeing, but did you know that cognitive stimulation is equally important to the health of our brains? Experts say that the brain can be strengthened through targeted exercise, just … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, agingparents, brainboosters, cognition, eldercare, elderly, exercise, health, safety, sandwichgeneration, seniorcare, seniors, wellness
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Keeping Your Aging Parents Safe from Internet Predators: 3 Tips for Savvy, Safe Sales Transactions
Chances are you’ve spoken to your children about the subject of “stranger danger” and you continue to do so. They know to avoid strangers in real life as well as on the web and wouldn’t think about opening the front … Continue reading
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Suicide in The Elderly: Risk Factors and Warning Signs
The recent suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain—both people whose lives seemed full and rich in every sense of the word, have helped to open the topic of suicide up for discussion across dinner tables all over the world. … Continue reading
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Strange Behavior in Your Aging Parent: It May Not be What You Think
As I have written here in the past, common medical conditions can manifest quite differently in the elderly than they do among the general population. Whereas an ongoing headache and fever after a cold of flu would indicate a likely … Continue reading
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How to Save Money on Your Aging Parents’ Prescription Costs
It’s no secret that while the costs of prescription medications continue to skyrocket, the majority of our incomes are not rising accordingly. This is especially true for the elderly. How can you help your aging parents stay healthy when many … Continue reading
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