Taking care of an older loved one can be an overwhelmingly large task. In fact, according to a survey taken at the beginning of 2016, roughly 34.2 million adults provided unpaid care for a loved one age 50 or older. Family caregivers … [Read more...]
Your Background has a Bearing on Senior Health
Your socioeconomic status impacts your health. While this might be a difficult connection to make at first, if you think about it, it actually makes a lot of sense. Those with less expendable income and less education tend to not have the … [Read more...]
Beginning the Search for Long Term Care
Long term care is the catchall term used to describe the type of care needed when close supervision and assistance with daily living tasks is needed by someone for more than 30 days at a time. According to current statistics, of those that … [Read more...]
Nursing Home Abuse Data Not Always What it Seems
An article published on ABC’s website declared that one in three nursing homes had some sort of elder abuse taking place at it. This is certainly a very disturbing statistic, but rather than panic, it’s prudent to take a look at the … [Read more...]
Family Caregivers are Doing More Than Ever Before
There has been a renewed effort to help family caregivers have all of the resources that they need to be successful. With more elderly individuals in the United States than ever before in our history, and with more family caregivers helping … [Read more...]
More Evidence Supporting Senior Exercise
A recent study conducted in Argentina declared that 17 percent of all cardiovascular disease related deaths came about because of physical inactivity. This conclusion was reached by looking at mortality information from 2010 information … [Read more...]