3 Elder Care Secrets Every Caregiver Needs to Know In each state, there is a wide array of long term care facilities that elderly individuals can choose from—each one specializing in different types of care services. However, more and more older adults are looking into growing older in their own...
Archives: May 2017
What Are You Learning – Smilecast 14
What Are You Learning The interesting thing about caregiving is that every day is different. And every day teaches us a new lesson that we can apply to our lives. They can teach us how to prepare for our own aging and even how to talk to our kids about...
Our Friday Song of the Week – Proud Mary
Our Friday Song of the Week – Proud Mary
Being 60 – Reflections on Life (Video)
Being 60 (reprinted from my Sixty and Me Blog) Reflections on Life: 5 Things I Have Learned by My 60s Yes, the big SIX ZERO hits me on April 29. I remember freaking out at 30 but no so much with the other decades of 40 and 50. I have...
Being a Weekend Warrior Actually Lowers Death Risk – Smilecast 42
Does the Weekend Warrior Lower His/Her Risks of Death – Yes! Is being a weekend warrior and cramming the recommended amount of weekly physical activity into one or two sessions associated with lower risks for death? A new article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that compared with inactive...
Being 60 – Reflections on Life
Being 60 (reprinted from my Sixty and Me Blog) Reflections on Life: 5 Things I Have Learned by My 60s Yes, the big SIX ZERO hits me on April 29. I remember freaking out at 30 but no so much with the other decades of 40 and 50. I have...
Caregiver Cruise: Send a Caregiver on the Caregiver Smile Cruise
Caregiver Cruise I wrote the following for healthcare CEOs suggesting that they may want to sponsor a caregiver to go on Caribbean conference / cruise next January. In fact, anyone who wants to start a campaign for a deserving caregiver can do so following a template that I started and...
Social Isolation – A Growing Epidemic Among Seniors (Video)
Social Isolation – A Growing Epidemic Among Seniors (reprinted from my HuffPost50 Blog) According to the AARP, 51 percent of people over 75 live alone. Twenty-six percent face an increased risk of death due to subjective feeling of loneliness. More than 8 million adults age 50 and older are affected...
Health Advocate – How to Fight for Your Health Care – Smilecast 13
Health Advocate – Fighting for Your Health Care It can be very frustrating as a caregiver when dealing with the care system. Only one in three physicians seeks caregiver input and one in six actually ask about your health as a caregiver. Let’s learn how to become our health advocate....
Our Friday Song of the Week – Brown Sugar
Our Friday Song of the Week – Brown Sugar