Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Health”
We plan many, many things in our lives. We plan our day to day activities, we plan for when we can take our next vacation, we plan for Christmas presents, we plan for what we’ll eat for dinner, etc. Though all these plans are important, there’s one aspect of our lives that most of us don’t plan for enough. The …
To those outside looking in on one’s life in isolation, not many understand the toll this could take on an individual, mentally and physically. While not all people who live alone suffer from depression or extreme loneliness, it is a possibility and is quite common among the elderly. Seeing a loved one who had a passing of a spouse or …
With time and age, life may become more and more unpredictable. These types of unwanted surprises can make retirement, your overall life and your families lives harder because of circumstances that were not foreseen. By doing simple life evaluations in multiple aspects of your life, you are able to make rational decisions about your future before certain circumstances make those …
Caregivers come from every walk of life, every economic spectrum. Aging spouses caring for partners. Children of aging parents. Parents caring for disabled adult children. Family members working to make sure other members are OK. There are even juvenile caregivers caring for aging or disabled parents. Where you are on the journey called Caregiving is not so important. What is …
Over the past few years, professional organizers, home stagers and move managers have come to use the term “rightsizing” in place of the word “downsizing.” Typically they are referring to someone who is moving to a smaller home from a larger one. Yet, as only the experts at Caring Transitions® understand, rightsizing is much more than a euphemism for downsizing. …
In professional organizer Peter Walsh’s book, It’s All Too Much: A Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff, he has a chapter entitled “Excuses, Excuses.” Walsh details a variety of standard excuses people use to retain clutter (and ultimately a state of disorganization). He begins the chapter with some interesting insight: “Everything in your home is there …
How are your new years resolutions holding up? A month has passed since the new year. Are you still holding strong with a new years resolution or is it faltering? I have been thinking a lot about what I wanted to accomplish myself this year. And it made me think of why people never stick to their resolutions. Whether if …
Osteoporosis is the weakening of bones within the human body. In this months blog we look at how osteoporosis is developed and how we can slow and or prevent the effects of age related bone loss. At some point in your life you may know someone that has osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a condition where the bones become brittle and can …
Medicare and Medicaid are two different government-run programs that were created in 1965 in response to the inability of older and low-income Americans to buy private health insurance. They were part of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” vision of a general social commitment to meeting individual health care needs. Medicare and Medicaid are social insurance programs that allow the financial …
I get asked a lot of questions regarding exercise and one question I get asked is “what is the best physical activity a senior can do”. If I had to choose only one activity for a senior it would be any form of resistance training. In simplest terms resistance training is basically lifting weights. Anything that you do that provides …
