Seniors fighting muscle weakness could be helped by widely available blood pressure medications. As people age, the blood vessels that supply muscles with the amino acids they need to grow become less responsive and less able to do their jobs, according to researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch...
Tag: aging
Flu Vaccination Could Reduce Risk of First Heart Attack by 19 Percent
Receiving a vaccination in the late summer or fall could help reduce the risk of a first heart attack by an average of 19%, according to a new study by British researchers. They examined 78,706 patients in England and Wales for their study. A total of 8,472 of them had...
Weight Lifting – It’s Not the Amount of Weight but the Amount of Reps
Some weight lifters may already know this. A new study by researchers at McMaster University has shown that lighter weights can provide the same muscle growth as heavier weights and that the key to building muscle mass is achieving muscle fatigue, not necessarily lifting the heaviest weight. Given that Sundays,...
Dance Therapy Improves Seniors’ Balance
Two recent studies conducted by University of Missouri researchers found that participation in dance-based therapy can improve balance and gait in older adults. Improved functionality among seniors can decrease their risk of falling and reduce costly injuries. The researchers used a dance-therapy program called The Lebed Method (TLM), which includes...
Beyond Dementia – Reasons for Nursing Home Admissions and What You Can Do For Your Elders
The Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged examines predictors of nursing home admissions among seniors without a dementia diagnosis. It is one of the first analyses that don’t consider dementia. 1,024 elderly adults over 75 without dementia were interviewed six times on average every 1.4 years, according to the report....
Video Blogs on ICYOU Health
I started taking the written contents of my blog and crafting videos around them for icyou Health. They asked me to write a blog about why I do what I do with the elderly. I think it might be worth a read. Thanks.
Best Things to Eat When Your as Sick as a Dog
This was sent to me as a post to consider and while it was written for students I think it applies to all of us. Check it out here.
You Might Be a Hypochondriac if…..
The following is a guest post from my colleagues at Masters in Healthcare: Have you ever claimed you were sick at 99 degrees, or believed your tummy ache is the sign of something bigger? Sure, weÛªve all exaggerated our aches and pains and claimed we are sicker than it seems,...
Multi-focal Lenses Could Contribute to Falls
From Mcknights – Seniors who wear multifocal prescription glasses could reduce their risk of falling if they switch to a single-focus lens while walking outdoors, new research finds. Many seniors wear bifocal or multi-focal prescription glasses to help see both close-range and distant objects. Among seniors who spend a lot...
Two New Videos on ICYOU Health
Two of my recent written blogs are now video blogs on icyou health. Mom Always Liked You Best NC Boomers – Fat and Flat Broke