Senior Nutrition – Overview Food for thought: Think healthy eating is all about dieting and sacrifice? Think again. Eating well is a lifestyle that embraces colorful food, creativity in the kitchen, and eating with friends. For seniors, the benefits of healthy eating include increased mental acuteness, resistance to illness and disease, higher energy levels, a [...]
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Elderly Care
Meal Plans for the Elderly – Overview Many variables can affect the desire and ability of older adults to eat healthfully every day. Living on a limited income, decreased appetite and changing digestive patterns may alter meal planning. Planning nutritional meals can be challenging for the elderly or their caregivers, but it is not impossible. [...]
Hygiene
A “handy” way to stay healthy. Help your children maintain proper hygiene to stay healthy and prevent unnecessary illness by getting them into the habit of washing their hands frequently and properly. When should kids (and grownups) wash their hands? When they are visibly dirty Before preparing and immediately after handling food Before eating After [...]
7 Best Cancer Fighting Foods by panlansang pinoy
Cancer Fighting Foods protects our bodies from carcinogens and free radicals. These foods help prevent cancer. Photo credit: prayitno Cancer is an ailment distinguished by the unrepressed development and spread of abnormal cells. This fatal disease builds up in 2 stages: the initiation stage where the healthy cell is tainted; and the promotion stage, where [...]
Get Up, Get Moving! Exercising for Seniors
As we age, we often wish wistfully that we could turn back the clock, or at least prevent the signs of aging from creeping up on us. Well, there is a fountain of youth, and those that have discovered it testify to its potency. It’s called exercising. Exercising is just as important, and as valuable, [...]
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No Comments » Mixing Meds – A Risky Business
With spring coming up soon, lots of people will be coming down with hay fever, and rushing to their nearest drug store for some over-the-counter medicines. But how many of them will think about how those drugs will react with medicines that they are already taking? A recent study found that more than 80% of [...]
admin Posted in Caregiver Resources, Caregiver Tips, Health Tips Tags: contraindications, health concerns, mixed meds, taking too many pills No Comments » Put Your Heart into it – February is Heart Month
The Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada has proclaimed February to be more than just a heart-shaped, one day holiday – it should be an entire month devoted to doing something better for yourself to prevent heart disease or stroke. What can you do to prevent heart disease or stroke? Check out some of the [...]
