Understanding Non-Medicare Home Health Care
Explore essential tips for evaluating non-Medicare home health care agencies. Learn what to ask, what to expect, and how to protect your health and finances as a retiree or caregiver.
Aging
Learn how to embrace the later years with confidence and vitality. Explore expert advice, tips, and resources on health, wellness, and lifestyle choices that support happy, active, and fulfilling retirement living.
Aging
The Importance of Staying Active in Your Retirement Years
Physical activity is essential for healthy aging. Learn how regular exercise can enhance mobility, mental health, and longevity in retirement, supported by medical studies and expert recommendations.
Medications and Aging
Medication safety and compliance is the number one concern with an aging loved one and home health care. Aging adults encounter many challenges when taking medications, and addressing these issues early can lead to better results and improved health.
Happiness is Pets
Many senior citizens and baby boomers will agree that “happiness is pets!” There’s a good reason why: aging pet owners experience physical and emotional health benefits from having a pet that they may not even be aware they are experiencing.
Level Up Your Fitness: How Video Games Can Help Seniors Stay Active
Think video games are just for kids? Think again. Motion-based games offer fun, low-impact ways for seniors to stay active, improve balance, and enhance mobility—all from home. Discover the best systems and games to keep you moving in retirement.
Safe Medication and Aging
There are many challenges we face with aging and taking medications, but these obstacles can be overcome by caregivers. Here are the six most common challenges that caregivers face when dealing with their patient and medications.
Salt and Aging
As we get older, many of us hear the same advice from friends, family and even physicians: stay active and eat well. Yet one common bit of dietary advice—a low-sodium diet—may be linked to health problems that interfere with your ability to remain active.
Age Equal Happiness?
A Stanford University study attempted to answer the question: are American seniors who say they're happy simply part of an era that predisposed them to good cheer? Or do most people have it within themselves to reach their golden years with a smile?
The Best Anti-Aging Products
Successful aging requires planning. Boomers have indicated loud and clear that they want to remain in their homes and communities as they age. Yet they ignore the most important factor that will help them achieve the goal to age successfully at home.
Positive Aging
A friend recently asked if I had any suggestions for “how not to be just another old lady.” It was an interesting question, in light of the fact that many mornings I wonder, who is that aging woman staring back at me in the mirror?
