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One of the basic building blocks for a happier and healthier life is the ability to enjoy a good night’s sleep. As anyone who struggles with sleep will tell you, everything seems 10 times worse when you’re tired and sleep-deprived. Lack of sleep on a regular basis can have serious effects on our mental and physical health. As well as making us feel moody, anxious or overly-emotional, it can also increase our propensity for obesity, heart disease and even diabetes. Here are 10 tips that may help you get a better night's sleep.

Age can affect the way we drive and sometimes, being advanced in age may be a critical concern for safety on the road.  A Place for Mom shares factors that affect one’s ability to drive along with helpful tips on how we can keep our senior loved ones safe while they drive.

Doing daily tasks such as brushing your teeth and going grocery shopping seem to be a simple to do to most people, but these tasks can bring a real challenge on the joints for anyone dealing with arthritis. With this in mind, the Arthritis Foundation lists 5 tips you can do to help relieve some stress and arthritic pain when going shopping.

We do a number of things during the day, some important, some not. From the moment we wake up we immerse ourselves in our typical morning routines, or the not so typical events like rushing into a meeting to determine an important business decision. Recently, a study published in Cell Reports shows that good sleep is a key factor in helping the brain distinguish and remember more important information over a common one.

According to the NCOA, 1 in almost 10 adults in the U.S. have osteoarthritis. Recently, the Arthritis Foundation has rolled out a six-week program called Walk With Ease that teaches you how to make exercising a part of your daily life. The program is designed to help reduce the pain and discomfort of arthritis, increase balance and strength, build confidence when it comes to being active and improve your overall health.

Moving is stressful for anyone at any age, and can be even more when the person you’re moving is an older adult. From figuring out time to help pack up the house to knowing what items to keep and which need to be let go, moving can be a long, daunting task. Luckily, A Place for Mom provides a quick list of 5 helpful tips to consider when the time calls for relocating an older loved one.

There are surprisingly good facts about eating yogurt. According to a study reported in the American Journal of Hypertension, a diet that includes yogurt can help lower the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with high blood pressure. The results show that both men and women who included more yogurt in their diet had an average of 20% lower risk of developing coronary heart disease or a stroke. 

If you are someone living with any type of inflammatory arthritis, you know that spotting your symptoms and identifying the differences between medication side effects and serious medical problems can be difficult.

Despite all the efforts that experts are putting in discovering a cure to Alzheimer’s throughout the years, achieving the goal to save lives proves to be challenging. However, there have been positive developments. In recent research, it has emerged and there could be a possible stop to the progression of Alzheimer’s.

Eating a well-balanced diet and having a healthy lifestyle go hand in hand when aiming to live a healthy life. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 65% of diseases that seniors face is a result of not eating properly. Lack of nutrition causes a huge gap in nourishment essential to keeping the body in best condition.