Senior Care Blog

September is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, and this is the third of four posts we’ll offer on the subject. I have been hoping to post with a subject line like “First Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease.”  I would settle for “First...

September is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, and this is the second of four posts we’ll offer on the subject. A fair number of folks have a right to be disappointed that we don’t yet have a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease...

September is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, so we’re going to be sharing four posts that will help everyone with what we have seen to be the most important information about dementia in general and Alzheimer’s specifically.  Our title here offers...

We most often think about exercise as a way to work off the calories that we may have consumed, or some of us know that endorphins are our friends as we get that “ahhh feeling”  after a workout.  Evidently...

When you hear the word cancer a lot can come to mind such as “cancer survivor,” “living with cancer,” and a host of “cancer treatments,” but eating our way to beating cancer may not be top of mind.  We...

This whole idea to write up a legal document to give surviving loved ones clarity about how to take care of a person’s estate after one dies goes back to the ancient Greeks and later the Romans.  Yet, there...

Mr. Rogers Told You…but were you listening?  And it wasn’t just once that he shared the message; it was every episode for 31 seasons.  You probably thought Mr. Rogers was talking only to kids when he sang: It’s a...

I came across an informative piece in the Washington Post about a week ago, and it brought to light a useful perspective on falls and injuries and recoveries.  I’ve talked a bit in earlier posts about preventing falls, especially...