Generation X (born 1965 – 1979) will be feeling the gap between lifespan and healthspan. People ages 45 to 64 are the likeliest caregivers for the nation’s frail older people. As baby boomers age over the next several decades, the ratio of likely family caregivers to older people who need care is projected to shrink Read More
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One Son or Daughter ALWAYS Does More
One son or daughter always does more to take care of their parents. Circumstances often dictate this, it’s not necessarily anybody being casual or lazy or being thoughtless. Some logistics make it so that one daughter or son usually does more. As elderly parents begin to rely on family for more support, the amount of Read More
Do you know any of the signs for the various types of elder abuse?
What Aging Boomers need to know about the signs and types of Elder Abuse Boomers, listen up. Here’s an issue you should not only care about because it affects your parents, aunts, and uncles. But it’s going to affect your generation big time. Elder abuse is a mistreatment of the elderly through actions that intentionally Read More
Human to Human Connection – We All Need It
From a warm handshake to sympathetic hug, we crave real human contact, which is necessary for human beings to thrive and has emotional and physical health benefits. Physiologically, not having a social support system is actually a source of chronic stress for our bodies, which raises the risk of cardiovascular disease and other challenges to Read More
Being active and staying fit with chronic conditions
If it’s been a long while since your senior got up from their favorite TV-watching perch to exercise, then we have some tips for you. No excuses accepted, even if they grapple with chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis or high cholesterol, or high blood pressure. Step one is easy: confer with Read More