Senior Care News / Highlights
Battling Sleep Changes As We Age
As we age, we often experience normal changes in our sleeping patterns. But disturbed sleep, waking up tired every day, and other symptoms of insomnia are not a normal part of aging. Why does sleep change as we age and what is normal?
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Drinking Alcohol as We Age
For many of us, drinking alcohol is a tradition. But as we age, drinking alcohol can be more problematic than pleasurable for many reasons that we might not readily even recognize.
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Exercises to Keep Seniors Fit
You’re never too old to exercise! It’s a necessary part of maintaining good health at any age. And while the natural process of growing older can bring a decrease in energy and strength as well as a host of conditions and diseases that can make exercising more difficult, there are many ways that caregivers can help seniors of every age keep fit.
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Cooking With Nutrition in Mind
As a caregiver, managing the nutritional needs of your senior client or family member can be a challenge, but here are some practical diet tips that will help you to make planning and cooking nutritious meals a pleasurable experience for you both.
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Bruising As You Age
Does the senior in your life often have unexplainable bruises? Do you as a caregiver have questions about what causes him or her to have unsightly black and blue marks and worry that there might be something seriously wrong with your loved one that needs attention?
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Healthy Eye Care and Nutrition
It’s common knowledge that eating the right foods helps to keep you healthy at any age. But did you know that eating certain specific healthful foods can actually help promote good eyesight and protect vision even among seniors?
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The Importance of Maintaining Healthy Family Relationships
The greatest gifts parents give children is nurturing and caring for them as they grow into adults. In doing so, parents teach children to establish healthy relationships within the family unit and beyond, helping children grow into happy, well-adjusted and successful adults. As life comes full circle, children often have the opportunity to return this gift by caring for their parents as they reach their senior years.
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Post-Surgery Care for Heart Disease
The causes leading to heart disease that requires surgery vary. Heart attacks and congestive heart failure are two common causes. Both conditions are silent and sneaky. Often individuals are unaware of either danger until their health is in dire straits.
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Vitamin D Deficiency and its Effects
Aging brings about symptoms one may never have experienced in his or her younger years: fatigue, general muscle pain and weakness, joint pain, poor concentration, restless sleep – the list goes on. These symptoms may be the result of normal wear and tear on the body over the years. They are also symptoms of vitamin D deficiency, a potentially serious condition that has gotten more attention over the years, especially in the senior population.
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Hospital to Home: The Importance of Transitional Care
After a long or even a short hospital stay, anyone appreciates the value of sleeping in one’s own bed. No one to wake you during the night, no more pokes, prods or beeps and buzzes. Just you – snuggled up under your own covers within the familiar sights and smells of home.
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Post Hospital Care After Pneumonia
Even though pneumonia is a serious illness for most individuals contracting the disease, it can often be successfully treated at home. Seniors, however, or more specifically, those with compromised immune systems or other health issues, may require hospitalization.
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Senior Suicide Prevention
Many seniors enjoy their later years by spending time with family and friends, travelling and other activities that make their lives complete. After all, the golden years are supposed to be golden, aren’t they?
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Alzheimer’s Disease: Communication Tips
The most debilitative and indicative symptom of Alzheimer’s disease is the gradual loss of words and understanding that are crucial to even the most basic communication that most of us take for granted. Alzheimer’s patients realize there is a problem, even though they may not have the capacity to understand what is happening.
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Five Tips to Make the Holidays Easier
The holidays are joyous times that inspire feelings of togetherness, fond recollections of past times and hopes for the future. Gatherings with family and friends are sure to lift spirits of all ages as new memories are forged among people.
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Acetaminophen Toxicity
Acetaminophen has long been used by people of all ages a pain reliever for conditions, such as headaches, osteoarthritis, fever and for general aches and pains. When used in proper dosage, acetaminophen is an effective and safe medication. However, there are instances where its use can become dangerous, especially if used excessively or in amounts higher than the recommended dosage.
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Cataracts: Helping Seniors Detect Cataracts and Get the Help They Need
Cataracts occur when the lens of the eye becomes cloudy and affects the retina’s ability to properly interpret and transmit signals of light to the part of the brain that governs sight. When the brain receives a cloudy signal, vision then becomes cloudy or blurred.
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Insider knowledge: Franchisees lean on each other
Comfort Keepers Canada was recently featured in "The Globe and Mail" business and franchising section. Read the full article here!
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Aging Gracefully: Caring for Muscles, Joints and Bones
Muscles, joints and bones are body parts vital to our movement and enable us to accomplish tricky feats such as downhill skiing and dancing, or simple things like writing with a pencil and hugging a loved one.
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Slowing the Progress of Age-related Macular Degeneration
As we age, the fact that we may end up wearing glasses to help us read does not surprise us. Irritating as that may be, the need for reading glasses can be a common result of the wear our eyes experience as they grow older.
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Encouraging Independence in Seniors – Maintaining Quality of Life
As a caregiver, it is important to encourage independence in seniors, but also to interact with them in ways that provide the opportunity for them to maintain a better quality of life for themselves.
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