There are several lung problems seniors are at risk of experiencing, but luckily there are simple steps you can take that will promote healthy lungs as you age.
No Time for the Gym? Try These Chair Exercises at Home
The key to maintaining your health, especially as you age, is to remain active. Countless studies and reports have found that daily moderate exercise is key to helping prevent life threatening diseases and debilitating falls. Seniors are highly encouraged to keep...
Making End of Life Decisions for Your Loved One
Providing care for a loved one as he or she approaches the end-of-life stages is among the most difficult challenges you will ever face. But your role is to remain strong, decisive and representative of your loved one’s wishes. The responsibility will fall on you to...
Tips for Managing Holiday Travel
It’s enough to make you shudder with fear – holiday travel can be chaotic, stressful, and complicated. Battling crowded airports, endless security checkpoint lines, unstable weather, and jam-packed freeways is enough to make anyone feel like The Grinch.Families...
Pros and Cons of Fad Diets
Fad Diets are a lot like Reality TV stars. No matter how objectionable they may seem, they have a tendency to become extremely popular. And like Reality TV stars, most Fad Diets are old news after just a few short years in the spotlight. Of course, just because a diet...
Salt Content in Medications Can Increase Your Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke
A new study published by Scotland’s University of Dundee in the British Medical Journal found that some “fizzy” or soluble medications can increase your risk of heart attack and stroke because of the high salt content in these types of drugs.Researchers on the study...
