Elderly and Dehydration: Don’t Overlook This Health Risk
During the hottest time of the year, maintaining proper hydration is necessary, especially for older adults. As a matter of fact, close to 1/2 of all older adults are chronically under-hydrated, according to a recently available UCLA study, which can lead to an assortment of health problems, such as kidney stones, urinary tract infection, and […]
Summer Safety Suggestions for Seniors
The longer days of summer mean additional time for swimming, family cookouts, gardening, and all of those other delightful seasonal pursuits. However, it also means an elevated risk for a variety of health concerns for the elderly, who happen to be more vulnerable to heat-related complications such as: Heat syncope (faintness/dizziness) Heat cramps Heat edema […]
Senior Driver Safety Tips
Remember that feeling as a teenager when you first climbed behind the steering wheel, experiencing the exhilaration of being able to go wherever you wanted? The freedom that being able to drive offers us is beyond compare! However, as we get older, a number of factors can come into play that affect the safety of […]
House Modification Tips to Keep Seniors Safe While Aging in Place
With the majority of older adults opting to continue to live at home during aging, it is critical to complete a thorough home assessment and house modification to locate and fix any dangers and make certain the older adults you love remain safe. The best way to accomplish this is to begin outside the home […]
House Modification Tips to Keep Seniors Safe While Aging in Place
With the majority of older adults opting to continue to live at home during aging, it is critical to complete a thorough home assessment and house modification to locate and fix any dangers and make certain the older adults you love remain safe. The best way to accomplish this is to begin outside the home […]
Hearing Loss in the Elderly: Signs, Causes, and How to Cope
Isolated. Misunderstood. Excluded. These are just a few of the emotions which could be prevalent in seniors with hearing loss, who find it hard to maintain social connections with friends and family, who struggle to communicate with them. Hearing loss in the elderly is very common, for a variety of reasons: genetics, a lifetime of […]
Traumatic Brain Injuries: A Surprisingly Common Diagnosis in Seniors
When you think about a traumatic brain injury (TBI), your first thought could very well be a sports-related accident, such as a football player crashing head-first into a rival, or maybe a head-on collision in an auto accident – something less likely to affect senior loved ones. Yet the prevalence of senior traumatic brain injury […]
Understanding Chronic Fatigue in Older Adults
Feelings of exhaustion may seem as though they are an everyday event for many of us. The alarm goes off too early, the demands of everyday life are exhausting, and by the conclusion of our day, as soon as we can once and for all sink into bed, it is often hard to turn off […]
Home Safety Measures to Reduce Fall Hazards in the Bathroom
While you might consider your bathroom to be a safe place where you can relax and slow down with a soothing bath or invigorating shower at the conclusion of a tough day, for senior loved ones, the bathroom is probably the most dangerous room in the house. With slippery floors which are even slipperier when […]
Elderly Scams Target Seniors in Kansas City
We’re all inundated with those annoying robocalls and unwanted telemarketer solicitations, and even though it could seem simple enough to avoid falling prey to a scammer, it is, in reality, quite easy to get drawn in to what seems like a believable scenario – particularly for seniors. The truth is, an astounding $36 billion is […]