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In This Issue
Feeling stress & anxiety? Feed the birds
In today’s constant contact, cell-phone celebrated, digital world, most people can go days or even weeks without spending any time in natural sunlight. Instead, we eat breakfast inside, or on the go, only to race to an office, filled with artificial light and plastic plants, for 8 to 10 hours a day. It’s no wonder why Americans’ mental health is suffering…
Five tips to safely manage medications
Medication management often feels like a high-stakes balancing act. With multiple visits to doctors and specialists, a variety of dosage instructions, and refill schedules that vary from prescription to prescription, it’s a challenge to keep medications organized. It’s no surprise that many older adults struggle to keep track of…
Caring for a long-distance older loved one
Long-distance caregiving for a parent or senior loved one is a difficult reality for many adults. A study by Home Instead, Inc., franchisor of the Home Instead Senior Care network, finds that 23 percent of American adults currently care for an older relative who lives more than an hour away. Providing care from a distance can be stressful. But if relocating closer to…
Easing senior loneliness – It’s more important than we think
Social isolation is a little-thought-of, but growing, factor in the health and well-being of people 65 and older – and it may play a greater role than obesity as a public health hazard, according to research at Brigham Young University. But what does”social isolation” really mean? It’s how often we interact with others, and how much we enjoy those…
