How Seniors Can Prevent Diabetes

Edmonton Senior Health  |  March 13, 2019

What Every Senior in Edmonton, AB Needs to Know About Preventing Diabetes

Prevent Diabetes | With 50% of Americans older than 65 years suffering from pre-diabetes, learning how to prevent it is important. The pre-diabetic is already at risk for developing type 2 diabetes, but it can usually be stopped from progressing further with the right lifestyle changes.

Lifestyle changes that incorporate healthy foods, more activity, and losing some extra pounds may help avoid serious health complications, such as nerve, kidney, and heart damage.

Three Tips to Prevent Diabetes

Tip #1. Physical Activity:

Physical activity helps with weight loss but also may lower blood sugar. Aerobic exercise and strength training can help with muscle strength and reduce joint pain. Aerobic and strengthening swim classes are perfect for people who require the lightest stress on their joints. Walking is always free, convenient, and especially fun with a buddy.

Seniors should work out 150 minutes per week, but it can be broken down into smaller times, like 30 minutes 5 times/week. Are you looking for senior fitness or exercise programs? With a doctor’s approval, seniors can start by calling your local community center or senior center.

Tip #2. Lose Weight:

Diabetes can often be prevented with diet and weight loss. Talk with your doctor or nutritionist about the healthiest food choices for weight loss.

Tip #3. Make Healthy Food Choices:

Food can be the best medicine. What you eat will impact your overall health. Developing healthier habits, like eating proper portion sizes, adding more fibre, and limiting sugary and salty foods will affect your overall health.

Drink more water. Replace juice and soda with water infused with citrus fruits, berries, cucumber, or sprigs of mint. Add more whole foods, like fruit and vegetables. Stay away from foods with long ingredient lists.

In-home caregivers can play an important role by helping with encouraging reminders at home, grocery shopping, and meal preparation. 

Comfort Keepers® in Edmonton Can Help with In-Home Elder Care!

If you are concerned about the health and well-being of your aging loved ones we can help with retirement care, 24-hour care, respite care, senior care, companionship care, end-of-life care, post-surgery care, palliative care, personal care, senior living transition services, and much more! 

Comfort Keepers®’ are trained caregivers who help provide senior clients with the highest quality of life possible to keep them happy and healthy at home. 

Companionship Care and Interactive Caregiving™

Our Interactive Caregiving™ provides a system of care that addresses companionship, safety, nutrition, mind, body, and activities of daily living (ADLs).

Moreover, our trained caregivers are selected with one specific quality: empathy. Empathetic care is care that starts in the heart, and it allows us to meet our client’s exact needs. 

Home Care Edmonton

To learn more about senior care in Edmonton, contact the Comfort Keepers® office to discuss our unique service offering. If you live in Devon, Edmonton, Sherwood Park, or Stony Plain and surrounding areas, contact Comfort Keepers at 780-465-4665.

Is Invoicing Modelling and Client Direct Home Care the Right Option for You?

Comfort Keepers® Edmonton is an Approved Service Provider for the Client Directed Homecare Invoicing (CDHCI) Program Offered by Alberta Health Services. Read more about the program HERE.

Comfort Keepers® Edmonton is here to help you and your loved ones get the best care possible. Recently awarded the “Accredited with Exemplary Standing” seal by Accreditation Canada, our Edmonton location has achieved the highest available certification in Canada for Home Care services, clearly demonstrating Comfort Keepers’ commitment to offering safe, high-quality home care to its senior clients in Edmonton.

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