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Driving Safety for Seniors

Driving Safety for Seniors

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.

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Tips to Make Shopping Easier with Arthritic Pain

Tips to Make Shopping Easier with Arthritic Pain

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.

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Sleep Can Help you Remember

Sleep Can Help you Remember

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.

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Walking Can Ease Arthritis

Walking Can Ease Arthritis

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.

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5 Tips for Moving Your Older Loved One

5 Tips for Moving Your Older Loved One

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.

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The Health Benefits of Yogurt

The Health Benefits of Yogurt

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. 

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Phase ll of Alzheimer

Phase ll of Alzheimer's Drug Shows Promise

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.

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10 essential foods for seniors

10 essential foods for seniors

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. 

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Signs of dementia

Signs of dementia

According to the World Health Organization, there are about 50 million people worldwide who have dementia and each year almost 10 million diagnosed with it. But what is dementia? Dementia is a progressive disease that deteriorates every day cognitive functions such as memory, orientation, and comprehension.

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