Manage chronic illnesses with practical tips and expert guidance tailored for retirees. Discover strategies for daily care, lifestyle adjustments, and treatment options that help you maintain independence, improve quality of life, and enjoy an active, fulfilling retirement
Chronic pain and illness can make any day a challenge, but throw in holiday stress and expectations, and it can push your already overburdened body to the limit. The good news is proper self-care can help you manage your pain and fatigue.
Thanksgiving kicks off the holiday season, and with it, festive times with friends and family. However, for those living with chronic illness, unrealistic expectations, travel difficulties, and busy schedules can add up to increased pain and fatigue.
Chronic pain, like any other kind of pain, is really an information issue. The brain senses something is very awry. We then call that feeling pain. And our sense of pain may have nothing to do with medical test results.
Chronic fatigue syndrome wrecks people’s lives—physicially, socially, and economically. Looking normal yet being unable to think or work causes enormous hardship, compounded by many doctors who think the illness does not really exist.
I’ve walked through process of recovering from loss probably hundreds of times; and if you’re living with chronic illness, you probably have too. While it never gets easier, there are things you can do to move through recovery in a healthy way.
Healthy lifestyle choices can reduce your risk of most common chronic diseases by 80 percent. But what if you already have a chronic illness? There are still plenty of reasons to make healthy lifestyle choices—and it’s easier than you might think.
People sap their energy and increase their stress by putting up with things that bug them...and for the chronically ill, stress can translate into increased pain. Enhance your life by eliminating what depletes your energy and dampens your spirit.
Endings are a necessary part of life. Despite their inevitability, most of us face endings with a sense of regret, anger, and even fear. But to move forward, we sometimes have to give up relationships, businesses, and more to make room for the new.
When faced with chronic illness, do you rise to the challenge or fall apart? Resilience is the ability to roll with the punches, to bounce back. It involves adapting to change and addressing life’s problems constructively—and discovering opportunities.
Simple living can seem elusive. Despite the proliferation of products guaranteed to simplify, most of us continue to hurry through our lives, pursuing activities and making purchases that ultimately add to life’s clutter. There has to be a better way.
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